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Grampian Housing Association chief operating officer Craig Stirrat has shared these images at the handover of new homes in Sandhaven.

An architectural technology graduate representing New College Lanarkshire has won a national competition for digital construction. Pawel Kudosz finished in first place in the Autodesk Digital Construction Challenge 2020. The online competition involved 25 students representing nine institutions acro

Streetscape improvement works have been carried out to provide a more pedestrian-friendly environment leading up to Inverness Castle and Inverness Museum and Art Gallery. 

A pioneering conservation project in Caithness has saved a prehistoric monument from ruin. The ruins of Ousdale Burn Broch, north of Helmsdale, had fallen into further disrepair over the past 130 years.

A joint venture (JV) between industrial developer Chancerygate and property fund Bridges Fund Management has exchanged contracts to acquire a 7.5-acre site in Sighthill, where it intends to speculatively develop a ‘best-in-class’ urban logistics project. Called Grayfield House, the site

Avant Homes has named the successor of Colin Lewis after the chief executive officer announced his intention to retire as of April 30, 2021, in accordance with a succession plan introduced last year. The board of directors said it accepted the news with gratitude for the leading role

A Scottish housebuilder is transforming a former Edinburgh industrial site into 77 new homes, thanks to a £5.8 million funding package from Bank of Scotland.

Scottish-headquartered timber business BSW has acquired the building and supply solutions division of Stoke-on-Trent-based SCA Wood UK, which includes the manufacture and distribution of timber and associated products to the home improvement and builders merchant sectors. The move heralds the beginn

Former colleagues with experience of leading successful affordable housing projects have teamed up to form a new architecture practice in Edinburgh. Architect and managing director Stuart Bishop has officially launched SB Architects, a team comprised of a very experienced group including ex-col

A socially distanced topping-out ceremony has been held to mark a key milestone in the construction of the new £28 million Castlebrae Community Campus in Edinburgh.

Plans for an ambitious £300 million onshore wind farm have been unveiled by Banks Renewables in a scoping report submitted to South Lanarkshire Council.  At 300MW generating capacity, the wind farm would be the UK’s third-largest by electricity generated. 300MW is enough to meet the

East Renfrewshire Council’s housebuilding project has continued in Barrhead with the progression of work at its Balgraystone Road development.

Juniper Residential, the new age-exclusive living brand of the Cruden Group, has officially unveiled two new developments in Scone and Kinross, comprising 92 properties for over-55s. The developments mark the first of several in the pipeline for the new company.

South Lanarkshire Council has revealed it remains on target to deliver 1,000 additional council homes. A report updating councillors on the Strategic Housing Investment Plan (SHIP) has confirmed that despite the complete shutdown of construction forced by the pandemic lockdown the ambitious new buil

Caledonia Housing Association has begun construction of 21 homes for social rent in Milton of Leys, south of Inverness, with the properties due to be ready by September 2021.