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Scotland’s world-leading tidal energy sector and Dundee’s new V&A museum were among winners at the Scottish Green Energy Awards in Edinburgh last night. The event saw winners in 11 categories receive trophies recognising their work in the sector, which employs 16,000 people.

Provost Lorraine Cameron has taken part in a ‘Working Challenge’ at City Gate Construction. The Provost of Renfrewshire learned about the company which is based in Paisley as part of her on-going initiative to fundraise for charity.

Two property entrepreneurs have offered to donate some of their flats to the homeless, in a unique collaboration with social enterprise Social Bite. Dundee-based Graeme and Leanne Carling are offering units from their extensive property stock in Tayside free of charge, as part of their involvement w

Local primary school pupils have put their heads together to come up with a fitting name for a new housing development being built in the South Lanarkshire village of Glassford.

The Christmas shopping season is in full swing and once gifts have been bought and wrapped, the eternal dilemma for gift-givers is to decide where to hide them from prying eyes and fingers. A survey by housebuilder Barratt Homes has found that – unsurprisingly – one in five Scots are cho

A roofer found guilty of attempting to kill a colleague following a post-work drinking session just days after they first met has had an appeal against his conviction rejected despite claiming he was acting in self-defence. Thomas Telford, who was sentenced to nine-and-a-half years’ imprisonme

Construction and property consultants Thomas & Adamson has completed a series of project handovers including a £20 million Market Street hotel in Edinburgh for the Carlton Hotel Collection. The firm provided cost management services for the four-star hotel on behalf of EDI Group Ltd.

A new village with more than a thousand homes is being planned for a site between Dalmahoy and Ratho. Investors Inverdunning and planning consultant Clarendon intend to bring forward a masterplan for between 1,200 and 1,500 new homes and local facilities at Hatton Village on the A71.

Plans have been submitted by Oliver Chapman Architects for a new canal community hub in Falkirk. The proposals for Lock 16 will see the former Barrs Irn-Bru factory building transformed into a new workshop, offices and training facilities for Scottish Canals and its partnering organisations.

Falkirk Council has submitted plans to deliver 24 new flats for social rent on the site of the former Torwood Primary School in Larbert.

Structured House Group’s proposals to develop a block of student flats with a convenience store on behalf of Scotmid have been refused by Edinburgh councillors. A joint planning application submitted in the summer proposed the demolition of the existing Scotmid store at 236 Gorgie Road to be r

2018 has proved to be a definitive year for Glasgow and Manchester-based integrated interior fit out specialists Linear Projects with turnover topping £19 million, office staff increasing to 45 plus on-site operatives to 200 as well as a 25th anniversary. Starting life in 1993 as a labour

GRAHAM has been named as a global leader in people management practice having won the inaugural Excellence in Health and Wellbeing Award at the recent Investors in People Awards in London. The prestigious award, which was an international award across all industries, was in recognition of GRAHAM&rsq

An innovative home which aims to set the model of how Edinburgh helps to transform the day-to-day lives of people with disabilities has been unveiled for the first time.  With the help of a number of manufacturers and suppliers of building materials and kitchen and bathroom solutions, a working

Hardies Property & Construction Consultants has promoted John Tulloch to associate quantity surveyor. Tulloch joined Hardies’ Dunfermline office in 2016 as a senior quantity surveyor. Prior to this, he worked for a firm of quantity surveyors in the Scottish Borders before spending a number