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Residents are being invited to drop-in events this week as the City of Edinburgh Council gathers views on the ongoing transformation of Powderhall. Detailing early plans for new homes and greenspace on part of the site on Broughton Road, Council officers will be joined by Cruden Building and Smith S

Independent consulting engineer Dougall Baillie Associates (DBA) has landed a whole structural design contract on a housing development on the last piece of vacant land at Renfrew’s Braehead Shopping Centre. Working with Bellway Homes, the specialist firm will provide design services at L

The Highland Council and its local partners have been successful in securing grant funding under the Scottish Government's Strategic Timber Transport Scheme for repair works to be carried out along the U1992 Evanton to Swordale road.

Miller Homes' Evergreen Manor development is helping Kilmaurs Tennis Club with its fundraising efforts to repair its perimeter wall and flood lighting with a £250 donation. Evergreen Manor development sales manager, Emma Sneddon, met with the club's Coordinator, Iain Maitland, along with his d

Three women members of the team at David Narro Associates have been promoted to associates following a recent round of annual reviews. With a cumulative experience of over thirty years, Lily Erskine, Yvonne McKean and Anna Naughton are section leaders, heading up teams of more junior engineering sta

Airbnb is giving away $10 million to help 100 people make their "craziest listing ideas" come true. As part of its OMG! Fund, the home-rental platform is asking people to submit "out-of-this-world" ideas for "the world's craziest spaces." The plans will be judged by an expert panel and the top 100 a

Taylor Wimpey East Scotland has donated £1,000 to Chris Ewing Karate (CEK) based in Musselburgh on behalf of local development at Ravensheugh, St Clements Wells, Wallyford. Commenting on the support that it has received from Taylor Wimpey East Scotland, Chris Ewing, director of CEK said: &ldqu

Housing association Link Group and McTaggart Construction have launched a series of short films highlighting their triple award-winning Glasgow development this week.

The creator of a ground-breaking recycled brick has been chosen as one of this year’s Top 50 Women in Engineering (WE50). Professor Gabriela Medero, co-founder of clean tech company Kenoteq which creates sustainable products for the construction industry, is a Professor in Geotechnical and Geo

FW2040, the Masterplan and Delivery Programme for Fort William and Lochaber, has taken a significant step forward with the appointment of its first dedicated project manager. Martin Culbertson has been appointed and will co-ordinate its overall delivery, help support and develop individual projects,

The creation of a £1.3 billion well-connected, sustainable new coastal town at Granton Waterfront in Edinburgh has reached its next major milestone as the City of Edinburgh Council appointed Cruden Group to take forward the first phase of redevelopment.

Supply chain body Timber Development UK (TDUK) has signed a strategic partnership with Edinburgh Napier University and the New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering (NMITE) to improve knowledge and skills in timber design and construction.

Real estate developers in the UK should brace for further increases in construction costs that will impact the viability of planned projects, as labour shortages, Brexit red tape and war in Ukraine maintain pressure on prices, Turner & Townsend has warned. The global professional services firm&r

High quality lime has been manufactured for the first time in the UK using hydrogen technology as part of a world-first net zero trial. The trial, led by Tarmac at its Tunstead site near Buxton, was the culmination of a project funded by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (B

A new prototype sensor that provides an early warning signal if a bridge is at risk of scour – the number one cause of bridge collapse globally – has been developed by a Queen’s University Belfast researcher. Scour is erosion of riverbeds and banks, which can cause major bridge str