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Students hoping to roll the dice on a career in the built environment are being given a helping hand to climb the career ladder, after an innovative new board game was created to help them learn while they play. Sue Hayhow, senior lecturer in property, construction & quantity surveying at Birmin

Development firm M&G Real Estate has drawn up fresh proposals for an Edinburgh development site. The investment arm of insurer Prudential is working with QMile Group on the former goods yard next to Haymarket Station, which it purchased last June.

125 additional homes, three local schools and Falkirk Council offices are all set to benefit from a newly announced £4 million project to extend an existing district heating system and create a private wire network at Callendar Park. The local authority has appointed specialist contractor McDe

Nominations are now open for the 2019 Saltire Society Housing Design Awards. Rewarding innovation and advocating Scottish house building and place making for longer than any other design award in Scotland, the awards work to encourage good, affordable, adaptable and environmentally sustainable housi

Visitors to Levengrove Park can now enjoy delicious homemade food and hot drinks at the newly opened Pavilion Café. The café, which is part of a £2.6m Heritage Lottery Funding investment in the park, is open every day from 10am to 4pm.

The charity behind a plan to build a garden bridge across the Thames spent £53.5 million without even beginning full construction, new figures have revealed. The project, which was overseen by then London Mayor Boris Johnson, was officially abandoned in August after it lost the support of curr

RICS has announced some of Scotland’s most impressive built environment projects, with the publication of the RICS Awards 2019 shortlist.

New research suggests that 51 per cent of homeowners regularly tip tradespeople, while the rest refuse.

A public consultation has been launched seeking feedback on plans to build social housing on the site of the former East Dunbartonshire Council headquarters.

Following a report from Citizens Advice Scotland, SNP MSP Clare Haughey is leading calls for the UK government to streamline the complaints process for their flagship energy-saving scheme, the Green Deal. Dubbed the 'biggest home improvement programme since the Second World War' when it was lau

Owners struggling to bring a long-term empty home back into use are to be given support and advice from a new service being launched by Aberdeen City Council.

A new £5 million decommissioning and recycling base for the Port of Dundee has been announced. Aberdeen-based John Lawrie Group has reached an agreement with Forth Ports to develop a two-acre site at the port.

The HMRC’s decision to fine a homeless man who had filed his self assessment tax return late has been branded a ‘scandal’ and ‘ridiculous’ by a judge.

The Aberdeen bypass has become fully operational today after the final stretch of the road opened - a decade after the project was first approved. The £745m project - stretching 36 miles (58km) - has suffered a series of delays, and is now expected to cost more than £1bn and stakeholders

Every home built for sale on the land where St Mirren FC once played has been handed over to local families.