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An application for a new 500-home residential complex and shops near Edinburgh Airport looks set to be decided by the Scottish Government after developers lodged an appeal before councillors were due to refuse permission.

A new partnership approach launched by the Scottish Government will be embedded across the education and skills system to ensure employers and government are working together to deliver training opportunities for the new green jobs of the future. Scotland's National Strategy for Economic Transformat

In celebration of Scottish Apprenticeship Week, City Building has launched its apprenticeship application process for 2022. Easterhouse-born Steven Cochrane, 17, reflects on his decision to join City Building and encourages his peers to consider an apprenticeship.

A popular coastal path in Strathaird on the Isle of Skye has provided an ideal opportunity to try a sustainable path repair technique that uses locally-sourced sheep wool. The Kilmarie path is well used by the community, as well as people visiting the Iron Age fort at Dùn Ringill, and a 100-m

Amey's new five-year contract with Transport Scotland to operate, maintain and upgrade the motorway and trunk road technology infrastructure across the whole of Scotland began in earnest this week.

Pupils at Braehead Primary in Dumbarton got a big surprise this week when a monster truck showed up in the playground.

Stewart Milne Homes has underlined its commitment to local communities with two new girls’ football sponsorships across Aberdeenshire.  The housebuilder is supporting talented Alford youngster, Holly Daniel (14), who has been selected as a player for the Scottish Schools’ Football A

Successful ScotWind partners ScottishPower and Shell are set to invest a total of £75 million to help the supply chain and businesses support the growth of the offshore wind industry in Scotland.

Caitriona Jordan, head of retrofit programmes at Construction Scotland Innovation Centre (CSIC), notes that to get apprentices ready to deliver net-zero, we need to invest and focus on training those already working in the sector who future talent are likely to work alongside and learn from. Scotlan

Ahead of the appointment of the team who will design the Peterhead Community Campus, the architects selected to lead the development of the design recently visited Peterhead.

Construction workers have discovered what police described as a mummified body in the wall of a historic building. Police were dispatched to the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center, near Oakland's downtown, after a worker noticed what appeared to be a human body in a wall that was being deconstructed.

A pre-application planning consultation is underway regarding the proposed development of 66 new affordable homes in Whitecraig, East Lothian.

Vacant and derelict land next to Bluebell Wood within the grounds of Johnstone Castle is set to provide 76 homes for social rent. The development will be managed by Link and Linstone Housing under new plans filed with Renfrewshire Council.

Cruden Group's head of HR Joanne Hadwin looks at the changing world of construction with new methods and materials being introduced and how embedding this knowledge across the workforce will be an important part of ensuring that the industry can improve on the quality of homes being built for a more

Plans for a new quayside manufacturing facility have been unveiled at Montrose Port. Aberdeen-based Balmoral Comtec has agreed to invest a seven-figure sum to create an advanced composites manufacturing facility on the quayside at Montrose Port where large scale components for the offshore energy se