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Construction employers are being encouraged to have their say on a review of plant short duration training standards and grant support.

Barry McNicholas, the group managing director of Kier Utilities, has decided to leave the group at the end of December 2021. Mr McNicholas joined Kier in 2017 when the group took over his family utilities contracting business McNicholas Construction.

Employees of Glasgow construction firm City Building swapped work boots for walking boots as they took on the UK’s highest mountains for Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity, raising more than £11,700 in the process.

Construction Scotland Innovation Centre innovation manager Sarah Buchanan writes in our COP26SCN feature that retrofit activity is going to ramp up significantly over the next 10-15 years as we head towards the government’s net-zero goals, with the affordable housing sector

North Lanarkshire Council's ambitious plans to regenerate its town centres continues to go from strength to strength, according to a recent report. Members of the council's Enterprise and Growth Committee approved the latest town centre initiatives, including major projects such as new housebuilding

Construction consultancy HD Property Consultants (HD) has made a strategic appointment to start an ambitious UK growth period for the Glasgow-based firm.

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Today's instalment in our COP26SCN feature highlights the pioneering retrofit of a pre-1919 tenement to Passivhaus enerPHit standards being undertaken on behalf of Southside Housing Association in Glasgow. Glasgow has around 73,000 iconic pre-1919 sandstone tenements. Their age, built form, con

Concept designs for the state-of-the-art new University Hospital Monklands have been unveiled by Keppie Design on behalf of NHS Lanarkshire.

Students from Fife College helped lay the foundations for their future careers at the former Tullis Russell paper mill site in Glenrothes this week. They were given a practical demonstration of some of the skills they are learning about, seeing concrete floors being poured and bricks being laid as p

‘Great oaks from little acorns grow, as the saying goes’, and on a young tree in Glasgow during COP26 this week, a transformative technology was unveiled which could have a lasting impact on the future of all the trees on the planet. On the imposing concourse of the City of Glasgow Colle

The pedestrianisation of Union Street Central, the creation of a new city market, and the revitalisation of the beach area, with plans for a pier, new green hub, and a state-of-the-art sports area which could include a new stadium for Aberdeen FC have been approved by Aberdeen City Council. The "onc

Scotland’s biggest economic centres risk not achieving their net zero targets unless significant action is taken to upgrade and improve the buildings used by businesses before the end of the decade, according to new analysis by JLL. A new report, Sustainability and Value in the Regions, conclu

The blueprints to new or improved connections that could increase the number of active travel journeys to and from Dundee amenities and the Western Gateway community have been unveiled in a new study.

South Lanarkshire Council is providing assistance to a local business that is constructing office and industrial spaces that are future-proofed for potential changes to the environment.