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With two construction workers taking their own life every single working day and stress, anxiety and depression currently accounting for a fifth of all work-related illness, a new partnership is set to offer support to those who may be affected. A collaboration between the Lighthouse Construction In

A new village with more than a thousand homes is being planned for a site between Dalmahoy and Ratho. Investors Inverdunning and planning consultant Clarendon intend to bring forward a masterplan for between 1,200 and 1,500 new homes and local facilities at Hatton Village on the A71.

The Federation of Master Builders (FMB) has blamed rising costs and continued uncertainty over Brexit for a drop in construction output. Latest construction output figures for October 2018 published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show a small decline of 0.2%, compared with the previous

A grassroots campaign working to save the two storey sandstone block on Leith Walk has unveiled its own vision of how the block could be developed rather than demolished.  Last week developer Drum Property Group submitted revised design proposals in support of its planning application to transf

Homebuilder CALA Homes (North) Ltd has welcomed two talented university graduates to its Westhill team. Gemma Rickaby and Katie McGill, both 22, secured their jobs through CALA’s two-year graduate scheme and are now firmly part of the homebuilder’s sales and marketing, and land and plann

Housebuilder Persimmon has been fined by Perth and Kinross Council for a breach in planning regulations, its second indiscretion at the same site. Workers for the firm were caught on site at its 300-home Lathro Park development in Kinross on a Sunday morning.

Construction, refurbishment and fit out contractor akp Scotland has been appointed to work with Registers of Scotland (RoS) on a programme of small to medium works across the RoS Estate.

Housebuilder McTaggart Construction has delivered over 100 work placements this year alone. The company offers work placements to employability programme participants from the areas in which it is building new affordable housing, and this has been a record year for the company’s sustainable co

Merit Holdings has made three key appointments to its Glasgow team as part of a plan to develop the company’s specialist turnkey design and build business in Scotland. Charlie McKenzie joins the Glasgow office as regional managing director along with Rob Beattie as project consultant and Steve

Uncertainty caused by Brexit is leading buyers and sellers in Scotland to sit tight in increasing numbers, according to the November 2018 RICS UK Residential Market Survey. The results from the latest survey show a weaker trend in sales than previous months with the headline indicators for

Marking a decade since the introduction of Home Reports, Eric Curran highlights issues such as length, categories, valuation price and the importance of being on a lender panel. It is quite remarkable that it is now 10 years since Home Reports, the initiative which radically altered the Scottish hou

Plans to build four blocks of flats on a derelict site on Leith waterfront have been given the green light. S1 Developments has secured planning permission to build 245 flats at a development branded ‘Skyliner’ at Ocean Drive on the edge of Albert Dock. The flats will be built in four bl

Expanding engineering and environmental services company RSK Group has bought more companies after securing a new funding package. RSK said a unitranche senior debt facility from funds managed by Ares Capital Europe will be used to finance its strategic planned doubling in size over the next few yea

Dundee City Council has joined forces with local trade unions to sign a 12-point charter committing them to fair work in the construction sector. The charter pledges to ensure that through the procurement and delivery of council-backed building projects there will be high standards of employment sta

A publicly owned energy company must be positioned at the heart of policy making, long-term in its thinking and flexible enough to react to change as it happens, according to a Holyrood committee. The economy, energy and fair work committee has written to the Scottish Government with its findings on