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A project to recruit and train 150 high quality assessors for the construction industry in Scotland is back on track following a pause due to Covid. The two-year project, driven by CITB and Energy Skills Partnership (ESP) in partnership with 24 Scottish colleges, government agencies and private trai

The prestigious national 2021 SURF Awards for Best Practice in Community Regeneration were launched at an online event yesterday in partnership with the Glasgow Canal Co-op and the Year of Coasts and Waters. The event, attended by over 60 guests, included presentations from the Glasgow Canal Regener

An Angus furniture business has continued its partnership with a renowned local housebuilder by styling its latest Dundee show home. Millers of Carnoustie was selected by DJ Laing Homes to fit out the show home at its new Castleview development in Dundee, having previously furnished show homes at th

Prince Charles has been given the green light to build an adventure playground in the grounds of his Scottish stately home. The project at Dumfries House near Cumnock will be an extension to an existing playground at the 2,000-acre estate and will include tree houses, rope bridges, a multi

Councillors have approved plans for the £50 million transformation of the former Debenhams store on Edinburgh's Princes Street into a hotel and leisure development.

Contractor GRAHAM has secured a key Glasgow residential build to rent project on the banks of the Clyde on behalf of developer PLATFORM_. The 498-apartment development consists of four blocks of varying height, including a 20-storey tower, on a landmark riverside site close to the city centre which

Responding to the changing working patterns of a post-Covid Scotland, Construction Scotland Innovation Centre (CSIC) has revealed new plans to help retrofit public spaces into out-of-town alternatives to city centre offices.

Tulloch Homes Group has highlighted a return to work to all of its sites and strong buyer interest as reasons to be cheerful after attributing a 50% year-on-year drop in profits to the effects on the industry of the coronavirus pandemic. The private housebuilder saw a “substantial&rd

Construction and fit-out specialist Morris & Spottiswood has delivered two vital regional laboratories for Health Facilities Scotland in order to ramp up testing facilities for COVID-19 in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Three regional testing hubs have been delivered in total across North, West and East

A property developer has unveiled plans for a housing project in Edinburgh that it claims is set to be a leader in green technology.

Burness Paull's Kathleen McAnea looks at the implications of the current shortage in construction materials and offers suggestions for companies who may be impacted. In March there was much industry chatter about the materials shortage in construction and the impact on housebuilders.

Barratt Homes has returned to Elgin following the official launch of its new Findrassie development.

Glasgow City Council has agreed plans to deliver a residential development of new homes through the development of land at Auchinairn Road, Robroyston.

Balfour Beatty restarted its investment asset disposals with the sale of its 70% interest in a hospital redevelopment project in Canada. The disposal of the BC Children’s & BC Women’s Hospital Redevelopment Project Phase 2 – Teck Acute Care Centre, located in Vancouve

New figures which show the economic reach of Scotland’s renewable energy sector for the first time are have been released by the University of Strathclyde’s Fraser of Allander Institute.