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A £3.4 million investment project to help reduce the risk of sewer flooding begins today in Tarbert, Argyll and Bute.

hub South West has agreed a £12.43 million social housing contract with Graham Construction to build 79 new homes in Kilwinning on behalf of North Ayrshire Council.

While employers in the plumbing and heating sector in Scotland and Northern Ireland have been pulling out all the stops to keep their apprentices working, a major new Scotland-wide survey reveals just how immediately they are in need of new funding to maintain their support.

International winch specialist Huisman has begun fabrication of a £1 million energy storage demonstrator destined for trial by Gravitricity in Edinburgh early next year.

Plans have been submitted to build 43 homes and two business units near Udny Station in Aberdeenshire. 

Councillors have agreed an action plan and strategy for Midlothian Council to become carbon neutral by 2030. The approval of the new Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan comes after the council declared a ‘Climate Emergency’ in December 2019.

A just transition to net zero emissions by 2045 is one of three core missions for the new Scottish National Investment Bank (SNIB) which have been laid before the Scottish Parliament for consultation.

Farrans Construction, the contractor for the A92/A96 Haudagain Junction Improvement for Transport Scotland, will soon begin the next phase of delivery with the construction of two key junctions.

Transparent public toilets have been installed in Tokyo parks which allow prospective users to inspect their cleanliness from the outside.

The Scottish Construction Leadership Forum (CLF) has today launched a draft recovery plan which sets out a pathway for joint action between the construction industry and the public sector in response to the impact caused by the global pandemic.

Work is set to start next month on a £2.4 million extension to the Rainbow Family Centre (Park Farm) in Port Glasgow, Inverclyde.

Barratt North Scotland is seeking repayment of almost half-a-million pounds worth of education contributions made to Aberdeenshire Council because a village’s primary school is under capacity.

Ayrshire Housing has received a loan of £8 million through a charitable bond arranged by Allia C&C to build another 118 homes for affordable rent over the next two years. The loan is the third and the largest the association has received under Allia C&C’s programme with

Almost 150 new affordable homes for social rent are taking shape as part of the Queens Quay regeneration project in Clydebank.

Glasgow City Council has agreed to move to the next stage of working with the Glasgow School of Art (GSA) to help deliver the Underline Avenue between St Georges Cross and Cowcaddens.