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Construction Scotland Innovation Centre (CSIC) has launched a webinar events series as part of its i-Con COVID-19 support initiative for the built environment.  

Home Group has successfully issued £100 million retained bonds in a deal which saw the lowest interest rate that the housing association has ever achieved in a long-term fixed rate transaction.

The Construction Industry Coronavirus Forum (CICV Forum) has welcomed the launch of a new fast-track summary adjudication process for low-value disputes, complete with a capped adjudicator’s fee.

The rapid conversion of Glasgow’s SEC into a new NHS hospital was secured by an array of skilled Scottish tradespeople but few have been more critical than those from the Lanarkshire business which ensured the new facility was supplied with vital sterilising grade water.

A local authority has become the first in Scotland to adopt a “radical” economic model to plot a way forward now and post COVID-19.

Could you explain a sustainable drainage system - with a watering can and rubber duck? Maybe structural loading – with toy elephants or perhaps 3D modelling with battenberg cake? If so, you are just the civil engineer ICE Scotland is looking for to enter its Pitch 200 competition.

hub South West has welcomed BAM Construct UK and Robertson Construction to its stable of Tier 1 contractors as part of its 2020 supply chain refresh. Established in 2012, hub South West is the public-private partnership dedicated to community infrastructure projects in Lanarkshire, Ayrshire and Dumf

Lighthouse Club CEO Bill Hill has his say on mental health in the construction industry in response to the recent CIOB survey. The year we cancel Mental Health Awareness Week will be because the mental health of our workforce is treated as significantly and comes as naturally as ensuring their physi

KR Developments Residential Ltd has submitted plans to build hundreds of new homes with roof gardens at the site of the old Partick Central Station in Glasgow's West End.

Roddy Cormack, accredited specialist in construction law and legal director at Scottish law firm Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie LLP, explores the role of designers in the return to operations for the construction industry in the new COVID normal. It’s important to remember the responsibiliti

Global real estate advisor CBRE is urging the Scottish Government not to delay the planned business rates revaluation in 2022 following the UK Government’s announcement to postpone the 2021 revaluation in England. CBRE said it is aware that a deferment of the Scottish 2022 Revaluation and

Glasgow City Council has agreed in principle to accept the offer of a funding contribution from homeowners to the creation of a new quay wall on the south bank of the River Clyde.

The construction sector could return to work on a phased basis from May 28 under a new framework announced today by the Scottish Government.

As the Scottish Government prepares to update its COVID-19 construction sector guidance, Laura McCorquodale details the industry’s six-phase plan to resume work. A six-phase plan has been drawn up for construction work to resume in Scotland as lockdown begins to ease from the end of this week.

Scotland’s construction sector can begin site preparation work from Friday after First Minister Nicola Sturgeon began a phased reopening of the lockdown restrictions.