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The team at integrated brickwork, scaffolding and stone sub-contractor Lee Marley Brickwork Ltd (LMB) has shown its support for Scottish Apprenticeship Week (March 1-5) adding that this year it’s more important than ever to support apprenticeships across the country. (from

Scottish structural steelwork contractor J & D Pierce has secured an agreement with Finnish firm Konecranes to purchase its East Kilbride-based operation in a long-term manufacturing deal.

Scotland’s largest construction trade association SELECT has teamed up with the industry’s leading training providers to launch a new video celebrating the many benefits that apprentices bring to businesses, individuals and the economy.

Terra Firma Chambers is launching a spring webinars series with two events looking at the ways in which communities can now use the law to require the transfer of land and other property to them. There are an increasing number of community groups making applications under these provisions, which rai

Following the recent formation of the New Homes Quality Board to put the New Homes Ombudsman Service into place, a Scottish construction solicitor has urged the Board to give the Ombudsman wide regulatory powers and include consumers who instruct works to refurbish, redesign or extend their exi

International, independent real estate consultancy Hollis has expanded its environmental consultancy team with the appointment of Pamela Hall as an associate in Edinburgh.   Hall is responsible for advising clients on the environmental as well as health and safety risks and opportunities a

Plans to build an extension to Lethans wind farm have been unveiled by Banks Renewables in a scoping report submitted to the Scottish Government’s Energy Consents Unit. With a potential generating capacity of more than 50MW, enough to provide over 36,000 homes, or over 87,000 people, with clea

A public realm improvement scheme which aims to reinvigorate Bridge Street in Banff has taken another step forward with the appointment of a main contractor. Hunter Construction (Aberdeen) Ltd will undertake the ambitious works which are expected to commence in April.

As plumbing and heating professionals around the globe prepare to celebrate World Plumbing Day today, the Covid pandemic has vividly highlighted their importance as critical workers on the frontline of public health and safety. While World Plumbing Day was inaugurated in 2010 to mark the link b

Alan Gordon, senior partner of DM Hall Chartered Surveyors, discusses how the roll-out of the COVID-19 vaccine will help boost the Scottish property market. As the socially-distanced queues snake round the block at vaccination centres across Scotland, there is a general acceptance that a shot in the

A surveyor has been banned for five years after failing to provide adequate accounting records and not complying with tax obligations.

Work to lay new subsea cables to supply superfast broadband to 15 of Scotland’s most remote communities will begin this Spring.

In the run up to the Scottish Property Awards on March 25, SCN will highlight shortlisted entries in the two Architectural Excellence Award categories in its new Architects' Showcase feature.

Structural and civil engineering consultancy David Narro Associates (DNA) has continued its growth and expansion plans during the past twelve months with moves to larger premises in Glasgow and Inverness as well as the launch of a new base in Aberdeen. The move to the north east was m

Scottish PPE firm Alpha Solway will this month begin construction on the state-of-the-art facility after securing a £4.8 million funding support from South of Scotland Enterprise (SOSE).