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Kevin Hamilton BSc CEng MCIHT has been appointed as Scottish Road Works Commissioner. A Chartered Engineer with over 28 years’ experience in roads engineering, Mr Hamilton will leave his role as head of roads at Glasgow City Council to take up the position.

Activity in the UK construction sector last month lost the momentum it had gained in July, according to the latest report from purchasing managers who cited economic uncertainty and a wait-and-see approach among clients.

Sarah Stewart from Burness Paull considers the Scottish Government's Heat Networks Bill and its impact on the housing and heating industries. District heating, also known as a heat network, is a distribution system of insulated pipes that takes heat from a central source and delivers it to a number

Facades, window and door designer, manufacturer and installer CMS Group has reported another 12 months in which none of its production or post-consumer waste was sent to landfill.

Four of the UK's biggest housing developers are being investigated by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) over concerns they may have broken consumer protection law in relation to leasehold homes.

HS2 Ltd has today announced the formal start of construction on the project, highlighting the large number of jobs the project will be recruiting for in the coming months and years.

Trade association SELECT has paid tribute to Lord Martin O’Neill, the long-serving MP and social justice champion who passed away last week aged 75. Baron O’Neill of Clackmannan was the president of the Specialist Engineering Contractors’ Group (SEC Group) and worked closely with S

The new process virtual mediation for construction companies may not be as effective and is also less secure unless certain measures are put in place, warns Ian Timlin. Organisations that are looking to use mediation as a way to resolve a dispute without the need for costly litigation need to be awa

Shire Housing Association has obtained a £10.5 million funding package from Royal Bank of Scotland to refinance existing debt, enable future expansion plans and enhance existing office and tenant facilities.

Plans have been submitted for 24 homes on the site of an existing car park on Meadow Place Road in Edinburgh.

Plans to convert a former Bridgeton job centre into flats have been rejected by Glasgow City Council.

A five-storey block of flats plagued by anti-social behaviour is to be demolished next year to make way for a new care village in Anstruther. 

The Scottish Government has said it will invest nearly £1.6 billion to directly support up to 5,000 jobs and tackle fuel poverty as part of its plans to drive Scotland’s green recovery and end its contribution to climate change. Part of an enhanced Green New Deal, the investment wil

Highland Council has agreed a new thirty-year vision for the future of the region to promote through the Scottish Government’s new National Planning Framework.

A virtual public exhibition which started yesterday sets out how Transport Scotland plans to engage with the public in a new way instead of face-to-face public exhibitions.