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The theme for Scotland's Climate Week 2024 is ‘Stories for Change’. In this article, Jamie Goth, associate director at the Scottish Futures Trust, looks at the success of the Net Zero Public Sector Buildings Standard so far. The Scottish Government launched the Net Zero Public Sector Bui

Matthew Jackson, associate director at Scottish Futures Trust, highlights why the right location is crucial for EV chargers to be effective. When you picture the perfect holiday, what comes to mind? For me, it usually involves a road trip through rural Scotland with my family using our electric car.

Bellway is offering a work placement in Midlothian as part of a national training initiative designed to attract more women into site management in the construction industry. The housebuilder’s Scotland East division is encouraging women to apply for on-site work experience at its Shawfair dev

Barratt Homes West Scotland has officially opened its new office at Maxim Park, North Lanarkshire.

Ambitious proposals to conserve and revitalise one of Scotland's most iconic streets have been welcomed by councillors. Designed to improve connectivity between the historic Old and New Towns of Edinburgh and target regeneration within the World Heritage Site, the City of Edinburgh Council’s d

Businesses across the Glasgow City Region have backed a new initiative aiming to inspire and develop the next generation of construction workers.

On the back of the recent announcement by the Scottish Government to cut £700,000 from the cladding remediation programme set up by the Housing (Cladding Remediation) (Scotland) Act 2024, Anamore director Anthony Marley expresses his disappointment and caution at the decision. In recent years,

Contractor GRAHAM has designed and launched a dedicated programme to encourage female high school pupils across Glasgow to pursue a career in construction. Promoted to schools with support from Developing the Young Workforce and Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, the ConstructHER programme will enable eig

Blackfinch Energy, in collaboration with BPG Energy has announced that the Bradley 2 Wind Farm in Deuchries, Aberdeenshire, is now providing clean, renewable energy to several of the UK’s most renowned high street names and five-star hotels.

A Caithness-based distiller will transform a historic grain mill into a whisky distillery having acquired the site supported by a £2 million funding package from HSBC UK. Situated at the west end of Dunnet Bay, the Castletown Mill is a large, traditional stone-built water-powered grain mill, w

Argyll and Bute Council has agreed a preferred bidder to deliver the final stage of the multi-million pound Helensburgh Waterfront development.

The Strathcarron Hospice has partnered with Haldane Construction to launch its 2025 Falkirk Wheel Abseil event.

More than 885 solar panels have been installed on two Scottish Water sites in the Central Belt, helping to save 57 tonnes of carbon a year and address the increasing urgency of climate change. The projects have seen 512 photovoltaic (PV) panels installed at Bothwellbank Waste Water Treatment Works i

Kathryn Sykes, structural project engineer at Harley Haddow, argues that it is important to identify how we combat the effects we are having on the environment when making improvements to our homes. As demand for house extensions continue, is building sustainably the everyday person’s first th

With many eyes trained on events in Paris over the next couple of weeks, SCN is taking a look back at when art competitions, featuring architecture and town planning, were part of the Olympic Games. There were 146 medalists in the art competitions that were part of the Olympic Games from 1912 t