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The new community-owned housing, health and business development in Staffin, Skye, has won a national award. The Scottish Homes Awards 2022 were held in Glasgow's Hilton Hotel on 23 June and recognise excellence in the new build housing industry.

Aberdeen City Council is seeking detailed planning consent for the refurbishment of 28 existing flats on Union Street to provide "much needed" one-bedroom homes for the local authority.

A total of 360 housebuilders went bust last year, reaching record new highs, as smaller firms struggled to cope with rising costs and backlogs in the planning system.

Plans to erect a life-size bronze statue honouring the Aberdonian Nobel prize-winner who co-discovered insulin a century ago have been approved by Aberdeen City Council. The application to place the statue in the city’s Duthie Park, which was submitted by the JJR Macleod Memorial Statue Societ

The £207 million project to extend Edinburgh's tram network to Newhaven has marked a major milestone with the largest concrete pour to date.

The National House Building Council (NHBC) has strengthened its alternative residential team with the appointment of Niki Kyriacou and Andrew Milsom. Both join NHBC as customer relationship managers. Ms Kyriaco will lead on Build to Rent (BTR), while Mr Milsom will head-up integrated retirement

Glasgow City Council has approved plans to transform the former Debenhams store on Argyle Street into offices with a rooftop restaurant. Permission for change of use of the B-listed building was secured by the St Enoch Trustee Company as part of a wider £50 million masterplan for the St Enoch

Dalkeith-based all-trades building and home improvements business Terry Healy Group has ceased trading with all 51 staff made redundant.

The number of Scottish businesses registering with the Construction Pipeline Forecast Tool has increased by over 30% to 800 since the pipeline’s last update in January 2022.

Construction trade bodies are urging their members to respond to a new business survey to help the sector cope with the current turbulent market conditions.

A group of nuns have prevailed in a legal battle over the ownership of a 15th-century convent. A court in Palma de Mallorca found in favour of the nuns, who had been in a dispute with the Bishop of Mallorca.

Construction firm McGill, who recently won contracts with Dundee City Council and the Scottish Police Authority, and several housing associations, is preparing to enter administration for the second time in less than four years, according to a report by The Courier. 

Proposals for an expanded whisky storage and warehousing development in Glenrothes are set to go out for public consultation.

Multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy Cundall has delivered the first office in Scotland with WELL Certification from the International WELL Building Institution (IWBI).

Glasgow-based Beaver Bridges Ltd has announced an exclusive distribution agreement with international bridge engineering and supplier Waagner-Biro Bridge Systems GmbH for the sale and rental of its modular steel panel bridge systems in the UK and Ireland. Waagner-Biro Bridge Systems currently holds