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The City of Edinburgh Council has launched a trio of consultations into how the west of the city can be better connected, cleaner and greener.

Maxi Construction has been awarded five contracts from the City of Edinburgh Council for school alteration and refurbishment works totalling more than £4 million.

Building People has announced new partnerships which it hopes will help the online inclusion hub to further its mission to improve representation across the built environment.

A paper on different approaches to bridge suicide prevention barriers has led to Katie O’Neill being named as the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Scotland’s Emerging Engineer 2023. Katie, a fourth-year student studying Civil Engineering with Architecture at the University of Glasgow

A consultation on strengthening the building standards system and related changes to building warrant fees is now live.

Property and construction consultancy Gleeds has officially been named as one of the UK’s Best Workplaces for Women by Great Place to Work. Only those businesses who achieve the highest scores after evaluation receive Best Workplaces status and Gleeds is proud to be one of just 55 companies to

Engineering services provider Edwin James Group has launched a pilot programme that will eventually replace around 70 diesel vans per year with eco-friendly alternatives. The new vans mark the initial step towards electrifying the entire van fleet, with engineers currently testing their performance

Essential repair work is being planned on six bridges in Livingston as part of a 10-week programme. The bridges involved are located at: the A71 Bankton Road at Crofthead Interchange; Almondvale Road between Almondvale Road Roundabout and Retail Park Roundabout (near ALDI store); A899 Livingston Roa

Conduit Finance managing director Jamie Davidson looks at how Scotland can learn from the German capital's rent cap alternative to instead accelerate social housing. Translated it means rent cover. It's relevant in the context of the Scottish rent freeze & cap. There was an interesting announcem

Scottish battery manufacturer AMTE Power has secured a £1 million bridging loan from Arena Investors LP, providing a lifeline to the company as it was on the brink of administration due to financial distress. The funds will be allocated in two tranches of £0.5m each, with the first tranc

Sustaining Dunbar’s Pledgehog Project is now being supported by housing developers Taylor Wimpey and the Dunbar Shed in their work to help the hedgehogs of Dunbar. Taylor Wimpey has incorporated ‘Hedgehog Highways’ into the site plans at Dunbar’s new ‘Belhaven Way&rsquo

Thai state petroleum company PTTEP has joined a collaborative green technology initiative based in Scotland, aimed at demonstrating the potential of wave-powered subsea equipment. The project, dubbed Renewables for Subsea Power (RSP), includes a £2 million demonstrator initiative which is curr

The remediation works on the derelict former Shell Oil refinery in Ardrossan will begin in the coming weeks. North Ayrshire Council this week confirmed that Sanctus Ltd - which has worked on numerous brownfield and infrastructure programmes across the UK – has been awarded the £3 million

Industrial leasing activity in Scotland reached an 18-month high in the second quarter of 2023, with take-up figures reaching 1.3 million sq ft. This surge was driven by five major transactions involving properties larger than 50,000 sq ft. In comparison, there was just one such deal in the precedin

Public sector building materials supplier Jewson Partnership Solutions (JPS) has donated £10,000 towards the development of a brand new support centre for women in Glasgow which opens later this year. The Connect Hub from Simon Community, based in Glasgow, will serve as a unique and groundbrea