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Taylor Wimpey East Scotland has declared its sponsorship of Dunfermline Athletic Football Club’s two youngest children’s teams, the 2020 squads, in a bid to support grassroots sport and its respective local communities. 

The winners of the Scottish Design awards have been announced, with the winning works ranging from a boathouse and bothy in East Lothian to the delivery of multigenerational care in Sutherland. 

Multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy, Cundall, has announced the appointment of Kevin Hayes as managing partner who will start the new position on 1 July, replacing Carole O’Neil after the conclusion of her four-year term.  The Managing Partner role is elected by the Partnership for

Social rent homes have been handed over to Fife Council in Aberdour after a housing project was completed by Cala Homes (East). The 21 social rent homes at the Inchcolm Green development off Main Street are anticipated to heighten the supply of affordable housing in the village.

The handover of 64 new homes for social rent at Greenock’s Duncan Street has been marked by Sanctuary Scotland, transforming the site which previously had a health centre into an affordable housing scheme. Delivered in collaboration with the Scottish Government and Inverclyde Council, the proj

Danehurst, the student accommodation developer, has sealed an £18 million loan to refinance The Pepper Mill, a student accommodation scheme based in Edinburgh’s Bonnington.

TV presenter Guy Martin carried out a variety of building physics experiments in his recent House Without Bills channel 4 programme.  This involved carrying out an 'Ice Box challenge' to test how well Passivhaus buildings perform in hot weather. The video of the experiment is currently on YouTu

In the last two years Tulloch Homes and Highland Housing Alliance (HHA) have delivered over 200 mid-market rent (MMR) homes in the Highlands through an ongoing partnership.  Their partnership has delivered the MMR homes in major developments in Aviemore, Inverness, Conon Bridge and Kirkhill.

Balfour Beatty has been awarded a two-year £325 million contract by Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) to deliver the Netherton Hub in Aberdeenshire.  Secured through SSEN’s Accelerated Strategic Transmission Investment Offshore Framework, the contract builds on Balfo

AECOM has named engineer and ex-British army veteran Andy Thorne as its client director for defence for UK and Europe.  With more than three decades of experience as an engineer, Thorne has spearheaded infrastructure programmes for the British Army and Royal Air Force.

The Highland Council has agreed to set up a Highland Wealth Fund for the promotion of renewable energy and the delivery of wider support to the region’s community.  Inspired by the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund, the new fund will aid strategic, regional, area and local priority pro

Scottish Borders Council has announced that it has agreed in principle to a request for up to £135,000 of funding to support a local group in reopening Jedburgh’s Laidlaw Memorial Pool. The agreement is subject to other funding being gained from different sources, including the Borderlan

Housebuilder Cruden Homes has gained a NHBC Pride in the Job Award for its Longthorn Gardens development in Shawfair.  The National House-Building Council’s (NHBC) Pride in the Job Awards award the most prestigious site managers and their pursuit of quality, leadership and client satisfac

Gleeds, the international property and construction consultancy, has stated that it has been selected as one of the UK’s Best Workplaces for Wellbeing for the fourth year running, which puts it in 14th place in the top 50 businesses within the Super Large category. To create the list, culture

Edinburgh’s £162 million new concert hall project has now reached the stage of having its structural base completed, indicating significant progress for the project, as reported by The Scotsman.