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Stornoway Port Authority has awarded £2.5 million worth of major contracts as part of a wider £12m investment in its Newton Basin/Goat Island development.

Fibre optic broadband cables could be fed through water pipes as part of a UK Government trial to connect hard-to-reach homes, businesses and mobile masts without digging up roads. A total of £4 million has been allocated in research funding for cutting-edge innovators to trial what the g

Maxi Construction has this week started work on a new £1m flagship boathouse in Edinburgh for St Andrew Boat Club (SABC).

With students across Scotland receiving their exam results today, Martin O'Donnell from the Akela Group reveals how the construction sector can become more youth-friendly. Today, exam results are unveiled in Scotland after over a year of disruption to education in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

An Advice Note has been issued to assist in determining the fire risk posed by external wall systems in existing multi-storey residential buildings. The Scottish Government publication is designed is to help ensure that people are not placed at undue risk of harm as a result of fire spreading over o

Developer ML5 Ltd has submitted plans to transform the former Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) office block in Coatbridge into 39 new flats. Plans submitted to North Lanarkshire Council have revealed plans for its conversion into “affordable residential units”, with the new one- an

Four A-listed New Town townhouses formerly used as the offices of law firm Brodies may return to residential use under newly submitted plans by CDA Architects.

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

A group of 20 female property professionals from across Scotland recently received an exclusive tour of Haymarket Edinburgh, the £350 million commercial and leisure development which is currently under construction. The tour was organised and hosted by Edinburgh property developer Qmile Group

Kingdom Housing Association has started work on 20 new energy-efficient homes for social rent south of Broich Road in the historic market town of Crieff.

A developer with planning permission for a 248-bed hotel in Glasgow city centre has instead proposed to deliver a serviced studio complex on the site.

Saltire Facilities Management has been awarded a contract with South Lanarkshire Council worth approximately £340,000 to deliver a programme of domestic fixed electrical testing for up to 5,000 homes across the region.

As Scottish schoolchildren anxiously scan their exam results today, trade associations such as the Scotland and Northern Ireland Plumbing Employers’ Federation (SNIPEF) are welcoming ambitious young people into the vital plumbing and heating sector.  According to the organi

Taylor Wimpey is to host a second online public consultation event ahead of a planning application for Planning Permission in Principle for the provision of around 40-50 new homes through the development of land at Victoria Street, Monifieth.

To cope with this increase in demand for concrete hand-fittings, the roof tile manufacturer Russell Roof Tiles has invested in two new curing chambers as part of a wider expansion programme, allowing the firm to increase capacity on certain key concrete hand fittings by 50 per cent.