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Chancellor Rachel Reeves's announcement of a rise in employer National Insurance from 13.8% to 15%, alongside a lowered threshold for NI payments, has drawn strong criticism from the UK's plumbing and heating industry.

Operators, contractors, training providers and industry partners came together at OEUK’s Aberdeen office last night to formally toast the achievement and growth of the industry-led Connected Competence programme. The event follows the win by the Engineering Construction Industry Training Board

Clark Contracts held its annual Halloween fundraising event last week for nominated company charity, SAMH (Scottish Action for Mental Health), raising over £1,000 for the charity. 

The official opening for the 12 semi-detached homes at Ionad Dotair MacLeóid took place in Lochmaddy on 29 October 2024.  The site was named after Dr Alexander MacLeod who spent over 70 years caring for people on North Uist and delivered the majority of babies on the island. He set up hi

JR Scaffold has helped prepare the way for a landmark residential building in the city centre of Glasgow which will become the tallest in Scotland.

The University of Edinburgh is to spend £6.9 million to refurbish an accommodation block home to almost 250 students.

A former Aberdeen care home, which closed a decade ago following a scathing report from inspectors, could be converted into 20 homes.

Hardies Property & Construction Consultants has marked its 110-year anniversary by fundraising for youth homelessness charity Centrepoint. Having invited each of its 13 offices throughout the UK to create an event centred around the number 110 to raise funds for Centrepoint and other local chari

A developer's bid for a 245-house western expansion of Forfar has been knocked back by the Scottish Government for the second time. Guild Homes lodged plans in 2021 for what it said was the “natural expansion” of its Strathmore Fields development beside the Forfar community campus.

A major project to create a new visitor hub on the island of Canna in Lochaber has secured a £20,000 contribution from Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE). Canna is the most westerly of the Small Isles archipelago in the Inner Hebrides. It has a resident population of 19 and welcomes 10,000

Surveyors anticipate that commercial property market conditions in Scotland will improve, with rents and capital values expected to pick up after a lacklustre third quarter, according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Commercial Property Monitor. A net balance of 1% of su

Considerate Constructors Scheme (CCS), the independent champion for change in construction, has completed the acquisition of the Building a Safer Future (BSF) programme. 

The Highland Council has appointed Markon to carry out road marking works as part of a project to revert Academy Street in Inverness to pre-Covid traffic management. Work is due to start on Monday 4 November 2024 and will take between 4 and 5 days to complete. If the weather forecast is poor, the wo

Kitchens International Ltd (KI) is celebrating 30 years in business. The contractor, which started as a single kitchen showroom in Edinburgh in 1994, has grown to become one of the UK’s largest and most respected independent luxury kitchen retailers, with six showrooms throughout Scotland. In

Two Scots who are believed to own the biggest brick collection in the UK are looking for a museum to house all 6,000 of them.