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The highly successful partnership between BESA Scotland and Glasgow Kelvin College is providing excellent benefits for young Scottish engineering apprentices. Four key engineering employers – FES, James Frew, MAQ Air Conditioning and City Refrigeration – have shown their commitment to developing

Figures from across the sector will have a unique opportunity to debate how to survive and thrive in Scotland’s rapidly changing construction industry as trade association the Scottish Building Federation (SBF) meets for its annual conference, taking place in Glasgow this week. The conference on M

The ongoing regeneration of Dundee’s waterfront is set to be complemented by an area of parkland, café and water features under new proposals submitted to the city council. Set in an area next to the £80.1 million V&A design museum, the ‘urban beach’ will create a new promenade along the

An architect from Inverness is among ten UK housing professionals and others to have been awarded prestigious Churchill Fellowships offering a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to travel the world and research cutting-edge solutions to important topical issues in housing. Awarded in a partnership betwe

Trades workers, including those working in construction, plumbing and electricity, are some of the UK’s happiest workers, according to new research. A survey of 1,024 UK workers by workplace incentives and rewards provider One4all Rewards, and published in The 2018 Happiness Survey, surveyed emplo

Glasgow-based small wind turbine manufacturer Gaia-Wind has gone into provisional liquidation putting 12 jobs at risk. Despite having a long and successful history in the industry, the firm said competitive pressures in Denmark reduced sales in the last year or so which was not helped by the UK gove

Collapsed Inverness housebuilder Roy Homes owed more than £1 million to creditors when it ceased trading in January 2017, it has emerged. The self-build home business and its sister company Roy Homes Timber Frame Ltd ceased trading last year with the loss of 17 jobs.

Developer and asset manager Canmoor has outlined “substantial investment” plans for Scotland’s largest fully enclosed industrial park after it completed the acquisition of the site for £40 million. The 135-acre self-contained Westway Park in Glasgow is home to numerous national and internatio

Philip Hammond Chancellor Philip Hammond’s announcement of a new consultation on late payment has given a cautious welcome by the construction sector.

Work on what’s designed to be the world’s tallest building has restarted in Saudi Arabia after construction stalled at the 63rd floor. Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture’s Jeddah Tower is set to stand at 3,281 feet tall once completed in 2020.

Jacqueline Law, managing partner at Aberdein Considine An estate agent has bemoaned tax changes for second homeowners for “driving landlords out” of the private rented sector and triggering a sell-off by investors.

Stewart Milne Homes MD John Low North east housebuilder Stewart Milne Homes has said there are positive signs that show the property market in Aberdeen is beginning to recover.

A charity that works to build houses for people in developing nations and a robotics construction company have unveiled what is believed to be the first 3D-printed house that is fully up to code and permitted for people to inhabit. New Story and Icon came together to show that it’s feasibly possib

A new Masterplan is to be developed to outline a long term vision Edinburgh’s Waverley Station. The Waverley Masterplan will consider the future growth anticipated at the station, the impact of city centre developments on how people use it and how it can play its part in the continued success of S

Tuesday 08 May 2018 | Inchyra Hotel, Falkirk It's with great pleasure that we invite you to join us for the Scottish Water 2018 Construction Developer Forum.