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The Scottish Procurement Alliance (SPA) is building on the success of its framework offering and re-procuring four of is most successful frameworks. These are Schools and Community Buildings, Modular Buildings, Roofing and Doors. In the last financial year, 2019/20, SPA’s partners registered o

As Scotland’s building sector emerges from prolonged shutdown, the Construction Industry Coronavirus Forum (CICV Forum) has issued expanded health and safety guidance to help steer companies through the crisis and back to work.

Provisional analysis of clean infrastructure projects by the Scottish Trade Union Congress (STUC) has outlined the massive benefits of a government-funded green stimulus for Scotland, with a £13 billion investment creating almost 150,000 jobs and re-absorbing workers w

The UK's furlough scheme implemented to save jobs during the coronavirus crisis will finish at the end of October, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced. Mr Sunak said employers will have to start sharing the cost of the scheme. From August, employers must pay National Insurance and pension contribut

New guidance from PASMA is helping managers keep scaffold tower users safe during the coronavirus outbreak. The industry body has offered its advice on the challenges being faced by those responsible for the health and safety of tower users as they plan a return to work, whether they're off on a tra

Concept designs of the transformation of the Woodside area in Glasgow have been unveiled with the launch of a new website.

Ogilvie Construction is to construct the new Maryhill Community Custody Unit for the Scottish Prison Service but COVID-19 has delayed the start to site works.

David and Victoria Beckham are reportedly seeking planning permission to construct an underground passageway from their £6 million Cotswolds mansion to their garage, as well as a wine cellar.

Scotland’s contractors have been instructed to follow physical distancing and strict health & safety guidelines as the industry took its first steps out of lockdown today.

The City of Edinburgh Council has approved plans for the first phase of housing for the development of Granton Waterfront.

The John Dewar Lamberkin Trust has submitted a full planning application for its proposed mixed-use sustainable expansion to the city of Perth.

National Museums of Scotland has appealed to Scottish Ministers to overturn a council’s decision to refuse planning permission for a new £15 million visitors' centre at the Museum of Flight.

Four in ten architects have said their mental health has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, a new survey has revealed.

An industry guide has been published to support the construction industry to attract and retain women into the sector.

John Jameson outlines a COVID-19 issue which many people may not have factored; the risk of Legionella created by stagnant water apparatus and cooling systems which have been largely redundant for over two months. As most property and health and safety professionals know, Legionnaires’ disease