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A Chinese company has been criticised for allegedly fining employees who don’t walk 180,000 steps per month. The unnamed real estate firm in Guangzhou fines employees 0.01 yuan (around 0.1p) for every step short of the target.

Springfield Properties has unveiled two senior appointments to newly-created managing director positions in its private housing division. Dave Main, who has been with Springfield for almost 20 years, has been promoted from development manager to managing director for the North of Scotland (private h

The latest designs for a £100 million mixed-use development which aims to create a major new leisure destination on the banks of the River Clyde have been unveiled by developer Peel Lifestyle Outlets. Glasgow Harbour Lifestyle Outlet, which is the next phase of the city’s waterfront rege

Industrial and commercial developments around the country will be given support under the first release of funding from the £150 million Building Scotland Fund. The Scottish Partnership for Regeneration in Urban Centres (SPRUCE) has received £25m to help fund a wide range of commercial a

Karen Davenport has been appointed framework director by BAM Construct UK, bringing the number of the framework team members to nine. Ms Davenport (pictured in the front row second from right) joins BAM from similar frameworks and public private partnership roles in Graham Building and Galliford Try

The Craibstone to Stonehaven and Charleston section of the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route (AWPR) will open early on the morning of Wednesday 12 December. This significant new section of road, which includes the A90 between Stonehaven and Craibstone and the A956 between Cleanhill and Charleston, w

Housebuilder Persimmon has been fined by Perth and Kinross Council for a breach in planning regulations, its second indiscretion at the same site. Workers for the firm were caught on site at its 300-home Lathro Park development in Kinross on a Sunday morning.

Amendments to a business rates policy and support for renewable energy are at the forefront of Scottish Property Federation (SPF) and Scottish Renewables calls ahead of tomorrow’s Scottish Budget. The SPF has set out the key policy areas it wishes to be addressed in a letter to finance secreta

Lucy Black from the Construction Scotland Innovation Centre on the importance of collaboration in construction. Collaborative working seems like a no-brainer – it helps organisations improve efficiency, productivity and by extension, profitability. It also encourages the transfer of knowledge

Construction, refurbishment and fit out contractor akp Scotland has been appointed to work with Registers of Scotland (RoS) on a programme of small to medium works across the RoS Estate.

A statue of Charles Rennie Mackintosh has been unveiled on the 90th anniversary of his death by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon. The statue by Andy Scott is believed to be the world’s first public sculpture celebrating Mackintosh, one of Scotland’s most famous sons.

Design and architecture company HLM has been awarded the £160 million project at RAF Lakenheath by the Defence Infrastructure Organisation. The project includes building an F-35 flight simulator, maintenance unit, new hangars and storage facilities. HLM will be working alongside engineering an

An action plan to help Scotland’s metals sector become an innovative and valued part of Scotland’s emerging circular economy, improve environmental compliance and stop illegal activity, has been launched by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA). SEPA’s Metals Sector Pla

Alan Gordon at DM Hall Chartered Surveyors considers the opportunities that challenger banks provide to the commercial property sector. Challenger banks have been nibbling at the ankles of major UK lending institutions with increasing enthusiasm for some years now with the result that a whole new re

A leading Scottish streetlighting engineer has been recognised for his services to the UK’s highway electrical sector. Lindsay McGregor, director at Streetlighting Advisory Services Ltd, received the Highway Electrical Association’s ‘Service to Industry Award 2018’ at the ass