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The Scottish Construction Summit takes place this week with a packed agenda designed to tackle the sector’s biggest challenges and opportunities.

Design & build contractor McAleer & Rushe, together with Vita Group, have celebrated a significant construction milestone with the topping out of their purpose-built student accommodation scheme at New Waverley in Edinburgh.

Design & build contractor McAleer & Rushe, together with Vita Group, have celebrated a significant construction milestone with the topping out of their purpose-built student accommodation scheme at New Waverley in Edinburgh.

Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) has awarded a £3.458 million contract to Morrison Construction to develop new small units at Golspie Business Park. HIE designed and built Golspie Business Park in the 1990s, creating nine development plots on site. In recent years, it has evolved into a

Taylor Davison, a chartered architectural technologist, has been shortlisted as a finalist for the Chartered Architectural Technologist (AT) of the Year award.

South Ayrshire Council is set to consider investing around £1.65 million to help transform Troon. If agreement is given at the meeting of full council on 18 September, three projects will be progressed - the extension of Troon Leisure Club, the internal refurbishment of Troon Municipal Buildin

Argyll and Bute Council has allocated £1.1 million of funding to progress a detailed business case that is needed to produce recommended options, developed budget estimate and outline delivery programme for the permanent repair of the A816 at Ardfern.

Scottish cleantech building materials company Kenoteq has been nominated for the Earthshot Prize 2025, Prince William's prestigious global environmental award that offers £1 million to groundbreaking solutions that address the world's greatest environmental challenges.

NHBC has added a new series of dry lining masterclasses to its range of free professional training courses for tradespeople.

A delegation from Scotland’s offshore wind sector, led by energy secretary Gillian Martin, will visit Japan this week to strengthen trade and innovation ties and promote Scottish expertise on the global stage.

Balfour Beatty has secured a place on SP Energy Networks’ Strategic Agreement for Overhead Line Works framework.

The amount of vacant and derelict land in Scotland has fallen by more than a quarter since 2016, according to the latest annual survey. New statistics detailing the amount, characteristics and location of vacant and derelict land in Scotland and local authority areas in 2024 found that of 335 sites

Briar Homes has been granted planning permission by Fife Council for a £40 million residential development in the village of Kennoway.

North Lanarkshire Council’s Finance and Resources Committee has approved plans to purchase 75 affordable homes as part of the first phase of new housing development at Mid Forest, Cumbernauld.

Two Edinburgh multi-storey council housing blocks could be demolished after the cost of planned refurbishment works increased by tens of millions, city council officers have revealed. A report going before councillors this week states that refurbishing Oxcars Court and Inchmickery Court in Muirhouse