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Education, the environment and roads are among the key areas to receive multi-million investment over the coming years across North Ayrshire. North Ayrshire Council’s Capital Programme - which supports investment in buildings, infrastructure and regeneration - will commit £373 million ov

This week marks the 20th anniversary of Scottish Housing News. From a handful of subscribers in 2001, it has grown to become an essential part of the working day for Scotland’s dynamic social housing sector, sharing uplifting stories of best practice and innovation while at the same time campa

With latest statistics revealing that women make up around 14% of professionals in the construction industry, Scottish housebuilder Stewart Milne Group is proud to report an above average figure of 18%. With common misconceptions about the male-dominated industry gradually diminishing, the inde

Thenue Housing has gained applied for planning permission to develop 18 terraced houses and cottage flats at the site of a former school in north east Glasgow Under plans designed by Coltart Earley, the land formerly occupied by Littlehill Primary School on Craighead Avenue will provide a mix of one

Hoskins Architects transformational project at Aberdeen Art Gallery has won the National Panel Special Award at the Civic Trust Awards. Established in 1959 the Civic Trust Awards is the longest standing built environment awards scheme in Europe, and one of the only remaining independe

Construction of the new £15.1 million Renton Campus is progressing well, with contractors well on track to complete the first phase of the project later this year.

Madras College's Kilrymont campus will be put to good use after Fife Council approved a preferred bidder for the old building. Pupils are set to leave the building for their new school in August.

To mark International Women’s day, female colleagues who operate across all areas of Thomas & Adamson's business have spoken about what brought them to the industry and the changes and challenges they have faced, being a woman in the construction sector. Thomas & Adamson said it p

Following the recent formation of the New Homes Quality Board to put the New Homes Ombudsman Service into place, a Scottish construction solicitor has urged the Board to give the Ombudsman wide regulatory powers and include consumers who instruct works to refurbish, redesign or extend their exi

Early adopters of sustainable practices, including retrofit programmes, may be better placed to reap future benefits, writes Sheelagh Cooley. In the year that Glasgow hosts the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), UK law firm Shoosmiths joined over 120 other UK businesses committing to

Barratt West Scotland has opened applications for nine apprentices as part of its ongoing commitment to tackling the skills shortage in the construction industry. The trade apprentice roles in bricklaying (four) and carpentry (four), along with a technical apprentice, will work across Barratt’

As works are completed on the first business units that are part of Fife’s flagship City Region Deal Industrial Innovation Investment programme, the business case that sets out the arrangements for a further three years has been approved.  

Women on the built environment frontline are uniting this International Women’s Day, to challenge the status quo, stating the case for more women in leadership, with a celebration of the vast impact women contribute to the sector.

Finance secretary Kate Forbes has struck a deal with the Scottish Green Party which guarantees the Scottish Government's Budget Bill can clear its final stages. The deal will see the phased introduction of free school meals for all primary pupils, an enhanced public sector pay deal, new Pandemic Sup

Empowered By Cloud, a successful Scottish Cloud-based accountancy specialist which works closely with the construction and trades industry, has more than quadrupled its workforce in the last 12 months to meet soaring demand – with further hires in the pipeline. Aware of the effects the pandemi