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Zero Waste Scotland is conducting new research into the scale of construction materials reuse and reclamation services in Scotland. Scotland’s construction sector is the country’s biggest waste producer, sending a staggering four million tonnes of waste to landfill each year.

Taylor Wimpey has seen its profits take a £105 million hit due to the cost of addressing the leasehold scandal.

A student trying out Morrison Construction’s virtual reality induction at a recent career event Morrison Construction has been recognised for its development of virtual reality site inductions after being named a finalist for the Health and Safety Initiative of the Year at the Water Industry Award

Aberdeen City Council’s decision to allow planning approval for Aberdeen Football Club’s new stadium at Kingsford will not be called in by ministers, the Scottish Government has confirmed. The decision paves the way for the football club to replace its current home of Pittodrie with a &p

Another 87 former workers have lost their jobs at collapsed construction giant Carillion, taking the total so far to almost 1,460. A spokesperson for the Official Receiver, which is the body handling the construction and services firm’s liquidation, said on Monday that a further 150 employees had

Cube Housing Association and West Dunbartonshire Council have unveiled plans to deliver 126 new affordable homes on the site of a former school in Clydebank. Under the detailed proposals submitted for planning, the 3.1-hectare site of the old St Andrew’s High School is to be split between 58 units

A new office development at New Waverley in Edinburgh The Scottish real estate industry contributes almost £4.8 billion to the Scottish economy and supports more than 92,000 jobs, according to a new report.

A new study jointly commissioned by the Morris Leslie Group and Perth & Kinross Council’s investment arm Invest in Perth has set out a range of positive alternative futures for Perth Airport. Consultants Ekos prepared the 40-page report in anticipation of the forthcoming £1.84 billio

After studying architecture, Anna Chambers saw a different route into construction with Perceptive Communicators, a firm with extensive experience of raising the profile of clients in the industry. Tell me a bit about your career, and how you got to be where you are today?

SCN speaks to five female members of the architectural team at Mactaggart & Mickel Homes about their roles, balancing home and work priorities, and why designing houses is not ‘plain vanilla’. Contributors:

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