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At the launch of its development of new homes for sale in South Queensferry, Taylor Wimpey East Scotland teamed up with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution to donate £25 for each new home sold and legally completed at Hawthorn Gardens. The latest tranche of £1,075 was donated this mo
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Construction firm Thomas & Adamson (T&A) has helped one of the country’s best-known energy providers step further into a greener future by delivering a sustainable workplace project that forms its new co-located Scottish headquarters.
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A comprehensive survey into the housing needs of the population has found that more than a quarter (28%) of households in Scotland do not live in accommodation that adequately meets their needs.
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Scottish Construction Now has marked its 20th anniversary with impressive growth in readers and subscribers.
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Bruce Robertson, lending manager for Scotland at specialist property finance lender Atelier, looks at the challenges that Scotland’s housing market is facing in 2024 and beyond. It is no surprise that Edinburgh Council and, most recently, Glasgow Council have declared housing emergencies. The
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Edinburgh based construction and property company J Smart & Co has flagged as “definite possibilities” the prospect of booking a headline and underlying loss in its current year. In an interim management statement for the period from February 1 to date, the building and civil engineering con
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Construction work on the V&A at Dundee has been delayed, a senior councillor has admitted, after it was revealed just a tenth of the project’s budget has been spent so far this year.
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Liz Cameron The Scottish construction industry is showing strong order growth and investment trends driven by housebuilding, the Scottish Chambers of Commerce (SCC) said today.
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A workman saved a pal from electrocution by hitting him with a plank of wood. Mark Bradley, 50, was struck by a reported 11,000-volt shock when a metal lamppost he was installing hit overhead power cables, the Mirror has reported.
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Plans for a new equipment testing centre at Kingsbarns Golf Links near St Andrews have been approved by Fife Council. Designed by Wellwood Leslie Architects, the new 22,750 sq. ft facility is to be located to the north of the practice area at Kingsbarns.
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The UK’s Green Investment Bank (GIB) has announced plans to co-fund an £111 million recycling and waste-to-energy plant in South Lanarkshire. The government-funded bank said it had invested more than £28m in the new facility at Forth by Lanark, due to open in 2017.
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Hew Edgar By Hew Edgar, RICS, policy manger (Scotland)
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Building maintenance brings around £55 billion a year into the UK economy, according to the latest figures. Research from the Building Cost Information Service (BCIS) of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) shows that more than £1 billion a week is spent on the upkeep of existing bu
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Stephanie Clark Scottish Renewables has called for a change in planning rules in Glasgow to force developers to consider low cost communal heating systems.
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A group of young apprentices are to play a key role in a state-of-the-art new school campus development in the Garnock Valley. The new £40 million joint school, community and leisure campus will serve the Garnock Valley’s three main towns - Kilbirnie, Beith and Dalry - and bring together pupils w
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