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West of Scotland Housing Association (WSHA) has launched its landmark development of 90 highly energy-efficient mid-market rent homes at Dundashill, Glasgow. The launch comes the same week as the development was shortlisted for two prestigious national awards: Scottish Home Awards’ Housing Reg

Highland Council has adopted new non-statutory planning guidance on biodiversity. The revised Biodiversity Planning Guidance (BPG) was adopted by the council's economy and infrastructure committee following a 12-week public consultation.

Work to restore Crieff’s 130-year-old Murray Fountain is to get underway this month, Perth & Kinross Council has said. The improvement project, which was announced last year, will see the James Square landmark’s masonry repaired and repointed, as well as electrical works to provide n

A dozen pairs of punch bag mitts have been donated to the Bronx Boxing Club in Tranent, East Lothian by construction company The JR Group.

One of the most important waste water facilities in Scotland has undergone a technological transformation 120 years after it was built at the end of the Victorian era.

Colorado Construction has highlighted "the power of networks" after agreeing to take on a joinery apprentice who was being made redundant. West Lothian College sent a plea via the West Lothian Construction Forum for a new employer to offer Jack Jenkins, one of its SVQ students, a joinery apprentices

Scottish-based Procast Group has been commissioned to work on an £800 million decarbonisation and renewables framework in the Midlands. The principal contractor will work on the Communities & Housing Investment Consortium (CHIC) Healthy Homes Framework, a four-year model which boasts 200 c

Pupils from Linlithgow Primary School (LPS) have launched a community café with support from Cala Homes (East) to help raise funds for a local school uniform and equipment bank.

Projects are struggling to attract bidders as contractors remain selective about taking on new work, according to a report from international property and construction consultancy Gleeds. Nine in 10 respondents to the company's latest UK market report say they or their supply chain had declined a te

Stolen plant equipment is being recovered with help from the Construction Plant-hire Association (CPA) and other organisations.

An Edinburgh resident has had a laugh at the expense of a would-be thief who tried to nick building supplies from their garden. CCTV footage shared widely on social media shows a group of youngsters standing by as one of their number tries to take a plank of wood from a Costorphine garden – bu

Fife Council has become the first local authority in Scotland to submit an Evidence Report to Gate Check, the first stage in preparing a new style Local Development Plan for the Kingdom.

Work is underway to build a 40-bedroom care complex and 46 extra care flats alongside a day-care unit in Bonnyrigg. Ogilvie Construction is building the development, which will be constructed to the Passivhaus green-energy standards, on behalf of Midlothian Health and Social Care Partnership and Mid

Kingdom Group has started work on 45 affordable new homes for social rent in Kinglassie, Fife.

North Lanarkshire Council is marking another completion of one of its new council housing developments.