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Bellway Homes has donated £250 to Penicuik and District’s Men's Shed, a community social charity based in Auchendinny by Penicuik.

The nation’s biggest trade and crafts skills competition for young people returns, and the SkillBuild 2025 regional heats are off to a promising start.

Scotland’s electrical training bodies have given an “in principle” welcome to new Scottish Government proposals to change the way apprenticeships are funded and run across the country. SELECT and the Scottish Electrical Charitable Training Trust (SECTT) say they support a plan to m

The long-vacant site of the former Ellon Academy annexe could soon be transformed into a small development of affordable homes under new plans put forward by Aberdeenshire Council. The local authority has unveiled a £1.5 million proposal to build 11 new homes on the plot, which has remained em

A proposal has been submitted to transform the site of the former Yates and Sons transport depot on Craigens Road, Cumnock, into a new residential development featuring 49 homes. The site, which has remained derelict since being severely damaged by a fire in March 2009, is now being eyed for redevel

A long-vacant care home in Barmulloch could soon be given a new lease of life as a co-living development designed for students and young professionals, following the submission of a revised planning application.

A group of first-year apprentices from City Building have launched a fundraising campaign in support of Glasgow Women’s Aid, as they prepare to take on the Tough Mudder challenge on 9 June. Led by apprentices Lennon  McDade and Zachery Camara, the class decided to tackle the demanding obs

A collection of 48 flats for social rent has been completed in Paisley’s East Lane by The JR Group on behalf of Loretto Housing Association.

Robot dog 'Spot' recently assisted colleagues in Dounreay’s Fuel Cycle Area by reactivating a crucial building crane in a reprocessing plant. The crane had been deactivated at the switchboard in 2023 due to concerns about the ageing asset. Safety restrictions prohibited human interaction with

Work to demolish parts of the Clune Park estate in Port Glasgow is due to begin.

Balfour Beatty has been reappointed as a key delivery partner on Network Rail’s eight-year Supply Chain Services’ framework. Having first been appointed in 2018, the new deal includes an option to extend the framework for a further two years.

Plans for Lanarkshire’s new hospital have reached a major milestone with the start of groundworks on the site.

Output in the UK construction industry is estimated to have grown by 0.4% in volume terms in February 2025 after a downwardly revised decrease of 0.3% in January 2025, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed today. This increase in monthly output came from increases in both new work (0.3%)

An East Renfrewshire business has seen its turnover double after accessing support and signposting to £10,000 of grant funding from Business Gateway. Founded by Saffron Grant in 2009, Setting Out for Construction is a specialist civil engineering training organisation dedicated to increasing t

An in-person exhibition is being held next week alongside an online exhibition to update the public on the current designs for the Aberdeen South Harbour Link Road project.