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Researchers at the University of Strathclyde have received funding to develop an online platform for remote building inspection.

Rose Street Foundry in Inverness, the former home to AI Welders, has reopened as a bar following significant public and private investment. Originally opened in March, just days before the implementation of lockdown restrictions, the team is now cautiously welcoming the first customers.

The City of Edinburgh Council and its contractor CCG (Scotland) Ltd have completed the first new affordable homes in Edinburgh since lockdown. The first new neighbours moving into Harewood Road have been visited by the council's housing, homelessness and fair work convener Kate Campbell and depute c

Taylor Wimpey West Scotland and Barrhead Housing Association have confirmed that construction work on 12 new affordable homes for social rent, which are located off Neilston Road in Neilston, are now almost complete and just over half the new tenants have now moved into their new home.

Plans to build 42 flats and two shops have been submitted a Calton site currently occupied by a shop, a takeaway, the Wee Mans Bar and an old engineering workshop of butcher equipment suppliers MacNaughton & Watson.

Glasgow-based Saltire Facilities Management has commenced work on a 15-year servicing, maintenance, and installations contract for Stonewater, a social housing provider who manage over 32,000 properties across England.

Construction work is under way as Dundee Science Centre embarks on an ambitious refurbishment programme.

National property, construction and infrastructure consultancy Pick Everard has been shortlisted for three awards in the 2020 New Civil Engineering Awards.  Director of HR, Elizabeth Hardwick-Smith, has been shortlisted for this year’s ‘Leading in Talent Management’

President Trump has denied claims that a White House official enquired about the possibility of carving his face into Mount Rushmore, before adding that it “sounds like a good idea”.

Aberdeen City Council has appointed Robertson Construction to build a new £16 million school in the west of the city.

The City of Edinburgh Council has been given the keys to the newly completed Queensferry High School in time for pupils to start the 2020/21 school term in their new learning space.

Perthshire-based timber manufacturing company Glenalmond Timber has received £600k in CBILS funding from the Royal Bank of Scotland to help safeguard the future of the business following the coronavirus pandemic.   The finance package will assist the third-generation f

Housing minister Kevin Stewart has urged local authorities to consider waiving fees accrued as a result of building warrant extensions during the coronavirus pandemic. In a letter published today, Mr Stewart said “it is important that the fee does not prevent contractors getting back to work i

The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) is to forgo its planned pay increase this year as part of a range of measures to make savings and reduce operating costs. The measures are part of the organisation’s ongoing coronavirus response and follow the decision in June to cut Levy bills b

The Construction Industry Coronavirus Forum (CICV Forum) is celebrating a double milestone this week – welcoming its 100th individual member and releasing its 50th piece of guidance.