Barratt Homes has donated £1,000 to Play Midlothian as part of its ongoing community fund initiative. The donation will help the running costs of Play Midlothian’s Out2Play project, providing weekly outdoor play sessions at four green spaces in Dalkeith, Gorebridge and Mayfield for child
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Persimmon Homes North Scotland has successfully secured the land for a £9.3 million new development in at the 4.79-acre Kingspark School site in Dundee. The developer will build 62 new homes at the site.
The Unite union is calling on the UK Government to extend its wage support scheme to protect the million plus workers trapped in “bogus” self-employment in the building industry during the coronavirus crisis.
SELECT director of employment and skills Fiona Harper on the ongoing uncertainty around construction working practices. Members will be aware of the announcement by Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday 23 March regarding the now enforceable requirement to ‘stay at home’ during the coro
An Aberdeen headquartered industry services firm is set to complete a projected six-figure contract on one of the city’s sustainable energy projects. Acciona civil engineer Maria Sasso with Greenwell director Scott Brown
Morgan Sindall has reversed its decision to resume work on the £250 million Sighthill Transformational Regeneration Area in Glasgow today with the firm citing confusion caused by contradictory guidance for construction from Holyrood and Westminster.
Ailsa Thomson breaks down the Scottish Government's policy to empower communities and ensure people benefit more fairly from Scotland's land. As part of the Scottish Government's policy to empower communities and ensure people benefit more fairly from Scotland's land, on 26 April 2020 the right to b
Kingdom Housing Association is the first to use new augmented reality technology to help tenants fix routine repairs without stepping foot in their homes.
The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has set up a Facebook support page for furloughed workers in the building services sector.
Office take-up in Edinburgh showed resilience in the first quarter of 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic began to take hold, according to analysis from Knight Frank. The commercial property consultancy reported 124,004 sq. ft. of office space was leased across Edinburgh between January and March, with mo
Chartered accountant and business advisory firm Anderson Anderson & Brown LLP (AAB) has been collaborating with the Scottish Business Resilience Centre (SBRC) to deliver a series of webinars aimed at helping businesses to mitigate the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. (from left) Graem
The Scottish Construction Now website last month clocked up record traffic, for the third consecutive month, as readers flocked to the site to keep abreast of developments during the coronavirus shutdown.
The Scottish Government has welcomed a £1.25 billion COVID-19 support package from the Treasury for start-ups that are not eligible for existing coronavirus funding schemes but has urged the UK Government urged to fill even more gaps in funding schemes.
Interserve has invested in the innovative Thrive application to support colleagues’ wellbeing and mental health.
Scotland’s £18 billion housing market will experience two waves of bounceback when the country emerges from lockdown, Scottish Building Society chief executive Paul Denton has forecast. Mr Denton said the sector has been hit by government stay-at-home measures for agents, surveyors


