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The client which removed Interserve from a contract to deliver an energy from waste plant in Glasgow has said that it still expects to receive at least £64 million from the company for remedial works. Viridor’s parent company Pennon said in a trading statement today that completion of co

An engineering student from Heriot Watt University took home third place in the grand final of the Institution of Civil Engineering’s Pitch 200 competition. Catriona Salvini’s Great ICE Bake-off presentation used the analogy of baking Rocky Road squares to explain how concrete is made an

Located on the west coast of mainland Shetland, Scalloway Fishmarket is due to begin works next week on the construction of a new market facility. Over recent years, the harbour has seen an increase in the volume of fish landed and the new facility will increase economic benefits from the island&rsq

Port of Leith Housing Association and Persevere Developments are celebrating the official opening of 43 homes for mid market rent at the Ten Brunswick Road development built by CALA Homes (East). The site, which was previously home to the Royal Mail Sorting Office, has been transformed to create a t

Plans have been drawn up to shape the future of Academy Street in Inverness and complement a planned major upgrade of the railway station and revamp of the Victorian Market. HITRANS, the regional transport partnership for the Highlands and Islands, is launching a period of consultation over its

Barratt Homes has won a prestigious award for enhancing biodiversity at its Riverside Quarter development in Aberdeen. The developer received the RSPB Scotland ‘Business Award’ at its annual Nature of Scotland awards in Edinburgh for reconnecting historically divided habitat corridors an

The responsibility for maintaining Edinburgh’s tram infrastructure is set to be transferred to the service operator. A new operating agreement containing the long-planned transfer from the City of Edinburgh Council to Edinburgh Trams Ltd is set to be confirmed by councillors this week. 

More landlords who rent out their homes on ‘Airbnb-style’ websites spend their takings on holidays than reinvest their earnings in home improvement projects, according to new research. A study by the Federation of Master Builders (FMB) into the spending patterns of landlords who use shor

Craig McLaren outlines how RTPI Scotland is influencing the Planning Bill. In July I blogged on the ambitions that RTPI Scotland had on the Planning (Scotland) Bill. At that time the Bill was about to be considered in the Scottish Parliament with its Local Government and Communities Committee scruti

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.