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Scotland’s leading electrical bodies say they are looking ahead to 2024 with confidence as new figures show a healthy pipeline of emerging young talent – but also insist that industry-led apprenticeships are the only way to deliver the future of skills development. The Scottish Joint Ind

Scotland's energy minister has called on the UK Government to explore options to mandate community benefits from all onshore renewables projects. In a letter to the UK secretary of state for energy security and net zero Claire Coutinho, Gillian Martin MSP welcomed the recent UK Govern

CIOB CEO Caroline Gumble brings this year's monthly Scottish Construction Now column to a close by looking back over the past 12 months. Readers of Scottish Construction Now will know how busy this year has been for CIOB. In this article, I want to reflect on a couple of our 2023 highlights, althoug

Savills has enhanced its infrastructure and projects division in Scotland with the appointment of Jessica Arrowsmith as a new operations director. Ms Arrowsmith, based in Savills' Edinburgh office, joins from Edinburgh Airport where she led the change management programme for the operations tea

New Gorbals Housing Association has been granted planning permission to build 28 houses and flats at a former health centre site.

Angus Council has approved plans for 57 new homes on the outskirts of Carnoustie. DJ Laing Homes Ltd will deliver a mix of single, one-and-a-half and two-storey detached and semi-detached properties – 14 of which will be in the “affordable” criteria – on unused Gree

The first ten homes in a “truly transformative" housing development in Fort William have been handed over.

Following consultation with residents and interested organisations in and around the west of the city a final framework for development to the south of Edinburgh Airport will be considered by the City of Edinburgh Council’s Planning Committee next Tuesday.

The JR Group has successfully delivered 48 new homes at Dumbarton Road, Old Kilpatrick, handing over the development to clients, Link Group, ready for new residents.

November saw both lower demand and supply in the Scottish property market according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Residential Market.

Fiona Hodgson, chief executive of the Scottish and Northern Ireland Plumbing Employers' Federation (SNIPEF), has responded to the publication of the Scottish Government's 'Starting a National Conversation on the Heat Transition in Scotland'. The government said its Heat in Buildings Public Enga

A flood of green investment into Scottish land holdings could deepen divides between landowners and rural communities if new policies and regulation don’t keep up, a study by researchers at The James Hutton Institute has found. The Scottish Government-funded research, being published today, in

Real estate advisory firm CBRE has appointed Sarah Hagen as a director at its Glasgow office. She will lead the Glasgow Office Agency team with responsibility for investor and occupier services. Ms Hagen joins following a nine-year stint at Knight Frank, where she has been a partner.

Aberdeen City Council has approved the outline business cases for a new 1,600-capacity secondary school in Hazlehead and a new St Peter’s Roman Catholic school.

More than 5,000 pupils from across Scotland have benefitted from a new classroom session looking at how technology is transforming the construction industry.