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Stewart Milne Timber Systems (SMTS) has teamed up with Bromwich-based Giffords Recycling, in a move that sees waste timber product repurposed for community use.

Work started today on the introduction of a pop-up cycle lane and the installation of attractive planters as part of a revised road layout for Kelvin Way in Glasgow.

Official documents for the transformational £251.5 million Ayrshire Growth Deal will be "signed in the coming weeks", the Ayrshire Regional Partnership has confirmed. The Partnership, which is made up of representatives from the three Ayrshire councils and public and private sec

Supporting training and retraining to rebuild after the recovery, improving productivity and making it easier to help employers bring in apprentices and other new entrants to Scottish construction are key elements of CITB’s Strategic Plan, which was launched today. Amid an unpredictable landsc

The PRS REIT, the closed-ended real estate investment trust that invests in new-build homes for the Private Rented Sector (PRS), has announced that an additional £50 million of development debt facilities have been approved with Barclays Bank. This takes the company’s overall debt facili

Landscape architect Kath McTaggart discusses the benefits of designing and creating learning and social environments that spark imagination and creativity. Raised in the rural south west of Scotland, I remember only too well wet playtimes at school, sitting bored at my desk and staring out of t

A simple manufacturing technology based on chitin, one of the most ubiquitous organic polymers on Earth, could be used to build tools and shelters on Mars, according to a new study.

The record-breaking Union Chain Bridge is closed from today until 2022 as engineers prepare to start the first stage of its restoration. The 200-year-old structure will be shut for the next 15 months with no access at any time to vehicles, foot passengers and cyclists while contractor Spencer Group

A planning application has been lodged for 424 new build-to-rent homes in Glasgow’s West End.

Leanne Hannah, a qualified engineer whose business ARMILA Sustainability Services specialises in sustainable development, has been announced the winner of hub South West’s eleventh Building for Growth Awards Event held online via Zoom last week. Leanne Hannah (second left) with hub S

Plans have been submitted for the world’s first pure octagonal residential building at the Paradise site in Birmingham.

Trade association SELECT has cautiously welcomed a proposed one-year delay to new rules on domestic smoke alarms – but says Holyrood needs to roll out a major awareness campaign on the rules in the meantime. The campaigning body for the electrotechnical sector says it understands why

Glasgow’s 122 Waterloo Street, home to international banking giant Morgan Stanley, has been named Scotland’s top corporate workplace in the British Council for Offices’ (BCO) 2020 awards. The highly sustainable, grade A office building, developed by HFD Property Group, opened in 20

As JCB marks its 75th birthday there’s one family with an extra reason to toast the milestone after notching up a staggering 600 years’ service to the company.

Consulting engineers Will Rudd has appointed two new managing directors to lead its Glasgow and Edinburgh offices. The appointments of MJ O’Shaughnessy and Gillian Ogilvie mark a new chapter for the successful privately-owned engineering consultancy which employs over 80 staff in Scotland