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Looking to a post-pandemic work environment, Bruce Kennedy talks about designing workplaces that inspire creativity, celebrate our collective humanity and allow us to thrive. As a designer of workplaces, I’m fascinated by the adaptability of millions of people around the world as they embrace

Shepherd Chartered Surveyors has called for rating appeals to be lodged and ideally to be backdated to March 4 as a result of a material change of circumstances arising from the coronavirus pandemic. The firm is currently working flat out lodging new appeals against rating assessments on the basis t

Unlisted tenement buildings deemed too expensive to maintain could soon be demolished to make way for temporary soft landscaping under plans submitted by the University of Dundee. The four-storey block at 16-18 Airlie Place, which sits within the city campus conservation area, was previously used as

Plans have been submitted to build a five-storey residential development on the site of a commercial unit just off Morningside Road in Edinburgh.

Bancon Homes has lodged plans to deliver more than 200 new homes at Maidencraig South in the west of Aberdeen.

The Scottish Government has issued updated guidance on gas, fire and electrical safety checks which states that private landlords and letting agents should postpone routine certification requirements during the current coronavirus pandemic.

Housebuilder Mactaggart & Mickel has handed £500 to ‘The Sikh Food Bank’, a new Sikhs in Scotland project created to help people left most vulnerable by the coronavirus pandemic. The Glasgow-based firm rallied behind project as media reports suggested supermarket panic-buyers h

A group of armed vigilantes in the US are said to have cut down a tree to use as a roadblock to try to quarantine three construction workers from another state. 

Morgan Sindall has reversed its decision to resume work on the £250 million Sighthill Transformational Regeneration Area in Glasgow today with the firm citing confusion caused by contradictory guidance for construction from Holyrood and Westminster.

Kier Group has introduced a salary cut of up to 25% as part of a package of measures to continue operating “as efficiently as possible” during the coronavirus crisis.

The redevelopment of the King’s Theatre in Edinburgh has been temporarily paused due to the impact of the coronavirus, the charitable trust which runs the theatre has announced. Scheduled to start in September 2021, Capital Theatres will now explore the potential of starting the project 12 mon

Efforts are under way to help prevent further disruption to the buying and selling of homes across Scotland after Registers of Scotland (RoS) temporarily closed the application record and the UK Government advised home buyers and renters to delay moving unless the new property is empty.

The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has advised contractors to review their contracts so supply chains can work together to manage inevitable delays to projects during the coronavirus crisis. Many sites are being shut down in response to government calls for non-essential work to be

New guidance has been published for public sector organisations in Scotland to support suppliers during the coronavirus outbreak.

A housing association tenant who sued his landlord over its alleged failure to properly sound-proof his property has had his action dismissed.