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Thousands more homes are to be built within ten minutes of transport hubs, including on green belt sites, under a major loosening of planning policy in England from today.

A Scottish sustainable construction materials firm has raised almost £900,000 to help increase the production capacity of its flagship product.

Scotland’s property community is getting ready to boule, network and raise vital funds as Spifox Too’s annual Glasgow Pimm's & Pétanque returns on Thursday 20 August at Hillhead Sports Club.

The long-awaited vision for a village centre at Wester Inch is taking shape, with work now under way on five new retail units designed to bring new shops and services to the Bathgate community. Kirsteen Sullivan MP joined Persimmon Homes regional managing director James MacKay at the site to tour th

Scottish Construction Now, in partnership with sponsor HF Group, recently brought together senior leaders from across the country's construction sector for a candid roundtable on one of the industry's toughest challenges: strategic leadership. Those in attendance at the event hosted at Glaschu in Gl

Senior managers across the construction sector do not have the awareness, knowledge or organisational support needed to effectively manage silica dust, according to a major new study funded through the Chartered Institute of Building's (CIOB) Paul Dockerill Award.

A £4.6 million project to improve the reliability, resilience and long-term performance of the East Coast Main Line (ECML) will get underway next month.

East Lothian Council has published officer assessments of a list of potential development sites as it looks to identify land for 6,650 houses during the period of the next Local Development Plan (LDP2).

Advance Construction has hailed its inaugural Advance Construction Experience as a huge success after more than 36,000 people attended the free, family-focused event at Glasgow’s Riverside Museum over the weekend of 8 and 9 August.

Scotland’s affordable housing ambitions face significant delivery challenges unless underlying pressures across the housing and construction sectors are addressed, new research by the Fraser of Allander Institute (FAI) has indicated.

Fife Council said it is making significant progress on two council housing projects that will deliver more than 100 properties for local families. Members of the council’s cabinet committee yesterday welcomed news that work has restarted at the Lochgelly Road development in Lumphinnans, where

Robert Ogg, managing director of Akela Construction and board member at CECA Scotland, shares what he believes needs to happen in Scotland to help close the skills gap in the construction sector. Across the border, political debate has been ignited by proposals to introduce dedicated, technical and

While the construction industry has spent the last decade improving its ability to specify sustainable buildings, Ewan MacGregor, managing director at Helica, believes it has been slower to reckon with a harder question: how much of what is specified gets built? Net zero targets, embodied carbon bud

Any UK built environment strategy must address deep systematic failures relating to competence, compliance, accountability and professional competence, the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) has said. The UK Government is currently consulting on its forthcoming strategy for industr

New research issued by the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) has revealed that workers are becoming less willing to travel long distances for employment, highlighting the need to develop localised workforces to support local employers.