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Surveyor Tom Laurie talks about the many, but perhaps little known, exceptions that exist for Home Reports. Home Reports, now a wholly accepted part of Scotland’s residential property landscape, celebrated their tenth anniversary late last year. But, remarkably enough, there remains a signific

Registered social landlord Thenue Housing has appointed Cruden Building to carry out a £12.7 million project in Glasgow’s East End.

A Treasury rate rise which led to fears that major housing and infrastructure projects could be delayed has been labelled by Moody’s as “credit negative” for local authorities as it will increase the cost of capital on new borrowing in the short term.

The completion of snagging works on the Queensferry Crossing has been pushed back until December.

The City of Edinburgh Council has appointed Clark Contracts to complete the £1.3 million internal and external refurbishment of Roseburn Primary School.

Glasgow architectural design company Hoko Design has been announced as the winner of a competition run by serviced office provider Orega. Danny Campbell of Hoko Design (centre) with judges (from left) Bruce Walker, Zach Douglas, Alan Mahon and Nick Cohen 

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has served a Statutory Improvement Notice on Thistle Housing Association in relation to its management of asbestos. The safety body took the action on August 22 after it decided that Thistle had failed to comply with regulations on the control of asbestos.

Construction industry integrated services provider eGroup said it has strengthened across all areas of the business with a raft of new appointments to support further growth in its key markets. (from left) Kerry Stewart, John Skinner, Elaine Titmuss, Daniel Cow, Phillip Murphy, Mark Tartaglia, Kelly

Staff at CMS Window Systems embarked on a sustained programme to improve the natural environment surrounding its main production facilities and HQ as the firm kicked off its first ever ‘Wellbeing Week’. Amy Ledger (2nd from left) with colleagues during the ‘big litter pick’ a

A new operations director, head of technical operations and senior head of inspection have joined the leadership team at NHBC. The internal promotions see Diane Marshall appointed to the newly created role of operations director from her prior role as head of technical operations. Diane has held man

The company which manufactures more than 80% of the winter maintenance and repair vehicles used on Britain’s roads has launched a new Scottish company to service gritters and other vehicles for customers across local authorities and private sector highways contractors. (from left) Econ’s

A construction union has warned it will take almost 200 years to achieve gender equality in the construction industry at the current rate after new figures revealed just one in eight construction workers are women.

Workloads in Scotland’s civils sector are finally on the rise following two years on the slide. The latest Workload Trends Survey, published today by CECA Scotland, has found that workloads in Scotland rose according to 27% of firms on balance, the first increase since 2017 Q3.

Housing developer Story Homes has been recognised at the Premier Guarantee Excellence Awards, with its Summerpark development in Dumfries winning two accolades. Summerpark won the award for Low Rise Residential Development of the Year (North) with senior site manager Jim Robison also picking up the

The number of injuries and incidents of ill-health in workplaces across Great Britain is still too high, new statistics show. The annual report by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) includes statistics for work-related ill health, workplace injuries, working days lost, enforcement action taken, a