MEP engineering consultancy Wallace Whittle has bolstered its services with the acquisition of utilities infrastructure consultancy firm Petrie Buchanan. Founded in 2002, Petrie Buchanan is well established across the UK and provides multi-utility infrastructure design and management to housebuilder
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Built Environment – Smarter Transformation (BE-ST) has delivered a three-day programme of activities during Futurebuild and UK Construction Week 2026 in London. Across the three-day event, the innovation centre contributed to ten events, including workshops, programme launches, roundtables, si
Aberdeen City Council has chartered progress on a number of construction projects, including part of its £150 million commitment towards the City Centre and Beach Master Plan (CCBMP). The council’s Finance and Resources Committee yesterday agreed to updates on the current CCBMP projects,
Local residents and businesses are being invited to take part in a public consultation on the proposed designs for the redevelopment of Burns Statue Square in Ayr.
Property firm the SRE Group has enjoyed a strong start to the year with two sales of commercial properties within its extensive portfolio, as well as letting deals spanning 20,000 sq.ft. and £500,000 invested in refurbishing current developments in Glasgow. With a strategy of focusing on prime
East Lothian Council’s plan to manage the local roads network amid rising demands from population growth and new developments was approved by Cabinet at its meeting this week.
House prices in Scotland have continued rising, according to the balance of respondents to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Residential Market Survey.
SSEN Transmission has set out its plans to upgrade the electricity transmission network between southern Aberdeenshire and Angus. The firm said it will ensure a secure supply of electricity for local communities while enabling future clean power connections and reducing the cumulative impact of over
Structural investigation works are to be carried out on the A919‑10B road bridge over the Motray Water, near Guardbridge.
A company set up to deliver a new housing development in Strachur, Argyll and Bute, has entered administration following what administrators described as “significant completion delays and cost overruns”.
Great Britain’s energy security and clean power ambitions have received a boost after Ofgem greenlit early construction funding (ECF) for a series of large electricity transmission projects in Scotland. These projects are upgrading Scotland’s electricity network so more clean, homegrown
Housebuilder Cruden has submitted plans for a major new affordable housing development at Almondvale Parkway in Livingston.
A strong sense of community has shone through a new video from the City of Edinburgh Council this week as residents talk enthusiastically about settling into their new homes at Western Villages, part of a £1.3 billion regeneration of Granton Waterfront for this area to become a new coastal to
Luminary Homes Limited has officially restarted a residential development at Horsbrugh North, Cardrona - a site that had previously stalled under former ownership.
It was the first dedicated home of Scotland’s oldest football club, the site of the first ever Scottish Cup Final and one of the first purpose-built football grounds anywhere in the world. Now the archaeological remains of the pavilion of First Hampden in the southside of Glasgow has been desi


