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The £1 billion redevelopment of Edinburgh’s St James centre is finally underway after political, financial and legal upheavals caused years of delays to the project. Building work began this week after developers TH Real Estate sold a 75 per cent stake in the 1.7 million sq ft retail and leisure

Prosecutors are seeking to recover more than £1.5 million from a former architect who embezzled hundreds of thousands of pounds from a charity. Ian Brash is trying to sell Fa’side Castle, near Tranent, to pay back the money he stole from the charity

Donald W Orr has been elected as the new president of SELECT, the trade association for the electrotechnical industry in Scotland. As managing director of Unitech Services Ltd in Carluke, Lanarkshire, Donald has been a long-standing SELECT member and serves on a number of committees as well as repre

The Sheriff Appeal Court has upheld the decision of a commercial sheriff in a contractual dispute between a housebuilder and a client in Aberdeen who held that the client was required to make an interim payment following the resignation of the firm to which payment applications required to

Donald W Orr, MD of Unitech Services Ltd and president of electrical trade association SELECT, steps into the Just A Minute hot seat. How did you get started in the industry? I took an electrical apprenticeship after school, qualified as an electrician and then an approved electr

The Wee House Company Ltd has just embarked upon its largest Wee House to date, a four-bedroom bespoke build home measuring 215 sq m. At almost nine times the size of a Studio Wee House, the smallest property in the homebuilder's portfolio, the monumental build will feature an open plan kitchen

Nuveen Real Estate has appointed BAM Construction Scotland to deliver the interiors of the 12 storey W Edinburgh hotel – the centrepiece of the £1 billion St James Quarter.

With just six weeks to go until The Scottish Homebuilding and Renovating Show returns to SEC Glasgow on 9 and 10 May 2026, organisers are urging homeowners and industry professionals to secure their place now.

The Scottish Government’s Energy Consents Unit has approved plans for the 14-turbine Dunside wind farm located in the Lammermuir Hills in the Scottish Borders. EDF power solutions UK has been working closely with communities around the site for over four years. Dunside wind farm will be situat

North Lanarkshire Council has agreed a new approach to ensuring that the money it spends delivers greater social and economic benefits for local people.

Taylor Wimpey has secured an Approval of Matters Specified in Conditions (AMSC) detailed planning consent from Fife Council for a further 219 new homes as part of Phase One of its Whitefields development in Dunfermline.

Scotland’s largest construction trade body, SELECT, has welcomed this week’s announcement by the Scottish Government that there will be a review of the contribution rates for Modern Apprenticeships (MAs). The review into current public funding for the MA programme, which is due to start

Sanctuary Scotland welcomed housing secretary Màiri McAllan to mark the completion of 44 new affordable homes in Cumbernauld. The £9 million Adam Place development in Seafar has seen the disused former Lennox House commercial site transformed into a range of high-quality one-, two- and

Taylor Wimpey East Scotland returned to school this month to remind the children at Hawkhill Primary in Winchburgh about health and safety, as construction at its development of new homes at nearby Seton Rise is well underway. With the Easter holidays just around the corner, construction well underw

Work to protect Dysart Harbour and repair recent storm damage to the sea wall will begin on Monday 23 March.