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A platform for architecture, carbon and the environment has launched in Edinburgh as a long-needed public forum with a clear focus on how the built environment is critical in addressing the climate emergency.

NatWest has announced a series of initiatives, leading with a target to provide £100 billion of Climate and Sustainable Funding and Financing (CSFF) by the end of 2025. The announcement comes as the lender publishes a report setting out the potential opportunity that exists for the UK economy

Take-up for the Glasgow office market totalled 289,209 sq ft in the third quarter of the year, the highest quarterly total since Q4 2019, according to the latest office market figures released by real estate advisor CBRE. The figure marks a 234% increase from Q3 2020.

The president of Scotland’s largest trade association said regulation of the electrical industry is essential to prevent the “incompetent and downright dangerous” workmanship that its members encounter on a regular basis. SELECT president Donald W Orr insists protection of title is

The Scottish Futures Trust (SFT) has performed a pivotal role in helping Scotland come through the pandemic from maintaining construction on essential building sites to launching an innovative forecast tool to support investment and jobs in the construction sector, a report from the infrastructure b

Kier has partnered with Thrive to launch social value calculator that will capture, track and demonstrate social value across the group.

Commercial property investment volumes across Scotland slowed during the last quarter, with a resurgence in Covid-19 cases and school summer holidays supressing deals activity, according to new research from Colliers. Colliers’ Scotland third quarter snapshot reports a drop in transactions acr

Office take-up in Aberdeen almost doubled between the second and third quarters of 2021, as a sustained lift to the oil price and occupiers returning to the workplace helped buoy activity, according to analysis from Knight Frank.

A new hand signal has been launched to help fight modern slavery in the construction sector.

The UK Government’s new Heat and Building Strategy has come under fire today, being described by one industry leader as “insufficient for the scale of the challenge we face". The comments, from Mike Foster, CEO of the Energy and Utilities Alliance, come in the wake of the government anno

A new agreement has recognised the crucial role of devolved, state and regional governments in delivering net zero. The Under 2 Coalition – the group of state, regional and devolved governments working together to limit climate change – has agreed an ambitious new Memorandum of Understan

Construction and cricket might not sound like natural bedfellows, but for BAM Construct UK’s long-serving communications man Mark Slattery, they have proven the source of considerable fun. Slattery has just written his first book, Cricket’s Craziest Teams, which features teams of real in

Glasgow City Council has approved plans for 40 flats for social rent on vacant land around a historic Calton church.

MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant: Renaissance Care (Scotland) Ltd

A flats complex comprising 74 properties is the subject of early proposals for a car park in central Glasgow.