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John McNairney The Scottish Government’s Chief Planner is to withdraw the housing and infrastructure draft planning delivery advice from 1 December 2017.

Deputy First Minister and cabinet secretary for education and skills, John Swinney MSP, performed a turf cutting ceremony yesterday to mark the official start of works to build a new secondary school at Bertha Park in Perth. Due to open in August 2019, Bertha Park High School will be the first addit

Glasgow City Council has given approval to entering into a partnership agreement with Scottish Canals and Scottish Water to deliver the North Glasgow Integrated Water Management System (NGIWMS). This is an innovative system that will use the Forth and Clyde Canal and new technology to tackle the cap

A plan to transform waste ground in Paisley into a new cultural and arts quarter has been named as the winner of an urban renewal competition. The 'Paisley Baker Street' entry, submitted by Paisley Community Trust, proposes a three to five screen cinema, 500 seat main theatre, 150 seat studio theatr

Ayrshire-based LMA Architects has been named as a global leader in people management practice having been ranked 10th in the Silver Employer of the Year (2-49) category at the annual Investors in People Awards. The Awards recognise the top performers from across the Investors in People community acr

The world’s longest moving walkway is the latest suggestion to end the long running saga of linking Glasgow Airport and the city centre, The Herald has reported. Architect Maurice Rodger has mooted the mile-long sky travelator as an affordable solution to the Glasgow Airport rail link which he cla

Douglas McCormick Consulting engineer WYG has confirmed it made a pre-tax loss of £2.8 million for the first half of its financial year, largely due to provisions against legacy contract claims.

Ken Munro, chief executive officer of TechnoNICOL UK, Ireland and USA with cabinet secretary for the economy, jobs and fair work, Keith Brown Glass wool insulation firm Superglass is to benefit from one of the largest investments in Scottish engineering and manufacturing in recent years, doubling it

A specialist windfarm contractor from Sutherland has been revealed among a list of 28 Scottish firms that have been “named and shamed” today for underpaying their staff. The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) today named 260 employers across the country for failing

Keltbray Training is to participate in a trial to improve the wellbeing and communication of construction workers by exploring the relationship between the human mind and the human heart. Researching what is referred to as “heart/brain coherence”, the pilot involves the utilisation of a system o

Modular expert Portakabin has worked with Dundee City Council to deliver a new wakeboarding hub for the waterfront redevelopment. The new Foxlake wakeboarding centre opened in August 2017 and is part of the £1 billion transformation of Dundee Waterfront.

Efforts to reduce the debt at Carillion have moved forward with the signing of a heads of terms with Serco Group for the disposal of a large part of its UK healthcare facilities management business. Pending approval from Carillion shareholders and consent from all the various clients, Serco will acq

Gillian Lavety, head of development for Sanctuary Scotland, and Renfrewshire Council leader, Iain Nicolson, at the masterplan site Plans to transform Paisley's West End into an attractive neighbourhood with 150 new homes and strengthened links to the town centre have been given the green light.

A consultation on proposed changes to the Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme has been launched today by the UK government.

A Montreal mosque is demanding an apology after a local television report suggested that it had banned women from a nearby construction site. On December 12, the French-language TVA Nouvelles published a report alleging that mosque administrators wanted females removed from a construction site near