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Architecture practices are showing a significant decrease in appetite to recruit permanent architectural staff, a new survey has revealed.

Tech start-up iOpt is the only Scottish company to win a global competition to find companies with technologies who can help facilitate better and more efficient management of building facilities and services. Run by one of the UK's largest property management companies, Places for People, the compe

The councillor in charge of Dundee's council housing has accepted that the Dundee Federation of Tenants Associations (DFTA) should have been consulted before deciding to demolish 26 tenement homes in the city. Dundee City Council’s neighbourhood services committee took the decision to demolish

Urban Union has made a generous four-figure donation to Scottish charity Cash for Kids. The Urban Union team participated in the Muddy Muckers assault course, taking on 22 obstacles along a 2km track. The team soldiered through muddy terrain to raise funds for Radio Clyde's Cash for Kids. The charit

A new social housing development has been named in honour of a local Moray poet. Avril Wilbourne, daughter of Elgin poet, Jessie Kesson, opened Hanover (Scotland) Housing Association’s new Kesson Court development. She was joined by staff, residents and local dignitaries including Richard Loch

Housebuilder Mactaggart & Mickel is moving into television advertising, for the first since it was established in 1925.

Smart infrastructure solutions company Costain said it remains on course to deliver a full year performance in line with its revised expectations despite a plunge in first half profits. Contract delays and project cancellation saw pre-tax profits fall by 58% to £8.4 million in the six months e

Around £100 million has been provided for the construction of over 450 homes on the site of the former Sunnyside Royal Hospital and surrounding estate in Montrose. Sunnyside Estates Ltd has undertaken the development as a joint venture between local company Pert Bruce Construction and Edinburg

Construction materials supplier Breedon has announced its intention to move the tax domicile of the group from Jersey to the United Kingdom.

A Cornish manufacturer and nationwide delivery partner of ground source heat pumps has expanded into Scotland with the appointment of a community heating specialist in Glasgow. Matthew Black joins Kensa Contracting, a specialist in the large scale installation of Cornish-manufactured Kensa ground so

In a bid to further increase the provision of new affordable homes West Dunbartonshire Council has formed a new partnership with local housing associations and is to consider the introduction of alternative tenures at a development in Clydebank East.

A consortium which represents housing associations based in East Renfrewshire, Inverclyde and Renfrewshire is to host a Meet the Buyer event for its highly successful property investment and maintenance related Framework for 2020 - 2024. The i-Flair consortium published a Prior Information Notice (P

Property consultant CBRE has announced the appointments of Moira Gordon and Kirsty Gordon from FG Burnett to its Scottish rating team in Aberdeen. Moira, who joins CBRE as a director, was recently promoted to head of rating having worked in FG Burnett’s Aberdeen office since 2010.

The Specialist Engineering Contractors’ Group has written to the secretary of state for BEIS Andrea Leadsom MP and new UK construction minister Nadhim Zahawi MP to prioritise action on fair payment for construction SMEs. As an industry body that has campaigned for many years on fair payment, S

Scotland’s timber industry can help tackle the UK’s housing crisis and the global climate emergency, a Westminster inquiry has heard.