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Rounding off a fortnight of reporting following Scotland Excel’s ‘Accelerating Delivery of Affordable New Homes’ conference, category manager Jenny Bowles highlights the potential for generating social value in construction. In the Scottish Government’s recent Annual Procurem

South Lanarkshire Council has submitted revised plans for a care hub, homes and centre of excellence in Blantyre following extensive public engagement.

Tender prices for social housing in Scotland fell by 0.3% in the 2nd quarter of 2019 but rose by 4.3% compared with the same period a year earlier, according to new figures.

Plans for a new care home near the heart of St Andrews have once again been rejected by councillors.

A delay to the implementation of the domestic reverse charge for building and construction services should not prevent affected businesses preparing for the new scheme as soon as possible, an Aberdeen accountancy firm has said. The change to VAT collection arrangements that was due to come into

Plans to breathe new life into Banff's Bridge Street by making it an attractive, welcoming route connected to the wider area have been submitted by Aberdeenshire Council. The Bridge Street Public Realm Improvement Scheme being led by the council's delivery team will link up strategic projects and ke

Glasgow architectural design company Hoko Design has been announced as the winner of a competition run by serviced office provider Orega. Danny Campbell of Hoko Design (centre) with judges (from left) Bruce Walker, Zach Douglas, Alan Mahon and Nick Cohen 

Mactaggart & Mickel’s Building Communities Fund has contributed £750 to the North Section of Stingrays Swimming Club based in Kilmarnock and surrounding areas to help support young swimmers at the club to compete at the highest level.

Scientists have used the latest robotics technology to develop fully autonomous robots that are able to inspect damaged wind farms.

The director of a building company has been jailed for ten months after an excavator bucket he was operating killed an employee in Blantyre. Robert Harvey, sole director and employee of Front Row Builders Ltd, was sentenced after Nicholas Hall was crushed to death by an excavator bucket which Harvey

Cemex UK Operations Limited has been fined £1 million after a worker suffered fatal injuries when he was struck on the body by a centering machine lifting mast in West Calder.

Scotland Excel recently completed a two-year Scottish Government-funded project, which explored and benchmarked how housing associations procure goods and services. This first phase of the initiative finished in April 2019 with one third of Scotland’s housing associations completing the audit.

Registered social landlord Thenue Housing has appointed Cruden Building to carry out a £12.7 million project in Glasgow’s East End.

Instances of ‘critical’ financial distress in Scotland’s construction sector increased by 30% during the third quarter of 2019 compared to the previous quarter, according to the latest Red Flag Alert data from insolvency specialist Begbies Traynor. Monitoring the UK’s fi

The construction of a new pharmacy in Galashiels ground to a halt last week after medical syringes were found to have been planted around the site.