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Killie Community, the charity arm of Kilmarnock FC, has announced Persimmon West Scotland as its official Housebuilding Partner for 2025. This partnership builds on a successful relationship established in 2023 and will see Persimmon further support the charity’s vital work across Ayrshire.
MHB Consultants (MHB) has appointed Fergus Aitchison as its new managing director. MHB’s founder, Hendrie Barbour, will subsequently move into the role of chairman as he continues to be involved in the civil engineering consultancy firm he formed in 2006.
Scottish Ministers have overruled West Lothian Council's decision to refuse permission for a new housing development in Mid Calder.
Modular housebuilder Connect Modular has entered administration, resulting in the loss of dozens of jobs.
Future colonisers of Mars will have to look closer to home in search of building materials, according to new research, in some cases inside their own bodies.
Embrace Steel Group, a provider of steel frame building solutions throughout the UK, has appointed experienced finance executive Ross McAdam as its new chief financial officer. Based in Glasgow, Mr McAdam will lead the ambitious steel group’s presence in Scotland alongside playing a crucial ro
Offsite manufacturing business Kirkwood Timber Frame has made a key appointment, recruiting Alan Little as a factory operations manager. The 50-year-old from just outside Kintore replaces the recently retired factory manager and joins the firm as it extends its geographic reach and operations beyond
Revised plans have been submitted for new homes to be created on an abandoned city centre site at Walmer Drive in Dunfermline.
Electric Vehicle (EV) charge point operator (CPO) Believ is opening an office in Edinburgh.
Network Rail has begun work to repair, refurbish, and repaint a 140-year-old railway bridge over Eglinton Street (A77) near Glasgow Central station.
Aberdeen-based Dr Ollie Folayan MBE, co-chair of AFBE-UK Scotland, announces the nationwide rollout of the Engineering Ethnicity Index (EEI) in 2025, a groundbreaking framework to improve diversity in the UK engineering sector where ethnic minorities remain underrepresented despite strong participat
Network Rail is reminding the community of overnight road closures to allow repairs to Garry Viaduct (off the B847), between Calvine and Struan near Blair Atholl on the Highland Main Line.
Cala Homes (East) has unveiled a suite of community support initiatives in the coastal town of Dunbar, as part of its Community Pledge programme.
The property market in Edinburgh, the Lothians, Fife, and the Borders remained buoyant during the last quarter of 2024, defying the typical seasonal slowdown.


