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Housebuilder Barratt Developments has launched a community fund in Scotland to improve and support the lives of local communities in and around its developments. The Barratt and David Wilson Homes Community Fund will donate a total of £3,000 each month to three different charities or organisat

CALA Homes (West) and Taylor Wimpey West Scotland have released the first homes for sale at the new Maidenhill community in Newton Mearns. Maidenhill will see 834 new homes created in the affluent town of Newton Mearns, as well as a new primary school, surrounded by plenty of green space for familie

Denmark has started building a 70km (43-mile) fence along its border with Germany in an effort to control the migration of wild boar, the BBC has reported. African swine fever has been found in two dead wild boar in Belgium and has led to fears that Denmark's huge pig industry could be threatened.

Forty-five workers employed by Glasgow construction and fit-out company Pacific Building Ltd have started the New Year in new roles as joint owners of the business. Managing director and majority shareholder, Brian Gallacher, said the decision to move to employee ownership was taken to lay the found

Newly-formed Linear Design & Construct (LDC) has announced significant appointments to its core team as it looks to establish a foothold in the principal contracting marketplace. John Gilchrist MCIOB brings 13 years of construction industry experience, the past nine of which were with Kier Scotl

ISG has further strengthened its senior leadership team with a trio of appointments to its statutory Board. The existing four-strong Board will be bolstered as Jane Falconer and Matt Blowers are promoted to chief human resources officer and chief operating officer for fit out respectively.

The Scottish Government is to supply £826 million of funding through the 2019/20 budget to increase the supply of affordable homes. The funding will be made available through the Affordable Housing Supply Programme and is a £70 million increase on the current year.

Around £280 million is to be invested in Falkirk Council's housing stock over the next five years for improvements to existing homes and provision of additional homes. In 2019/20 alone, nearly £30m will be spent on improvements to around 4,700 properties including £8m on re-roofing

Independent building and project consultancy Paragon has celebrated its successful first year in Edinburgh, having completed more than 2.2m sq ft of building surveys and almost £300m in insurance valuations over the past twelve months. The office opened on George Street in the Scottish capital

Stirling Council has submitted a plan to transform the transport network connecting Kings Park and Stirling South. Filed by WSP, the proposal is for a new link road through the council's existing Viewforth site, which houses the authority's headquarters. The new road, known as the Viewforth Link Roa

Fire safety and building compliance contractors across Scotland are being invited to help registered social landlords (RSLs) meet new higher standards to protect properties from smoke and fire, introduced in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster in London. Interested parties can apply to become &l

A small engineering and design company has been behind the recently accomplished restoration and renovation of the dramatic Ross Fountain in Edinburgh’s West Princes Street Gardens. The technical mastery of Edinburgh and Glasgow-based Applied Engineering Design (AED) underpinned

Dundee City Council lodged a planning application to build its first social housing development for several years. Submitted to planning officers by the council’s own architects, the proposal outlines plans to build 35 homes on land at Murrayfield Place, Murrayfield Drive, Whitfield Avenue and

A group of CALA Homes employees across Scotland are ready for the build of a lifetime as they prepare to travel to Cambodia to support in building safe homes for vulnerable families. The team has been selected to join the CALA Build 2019 team, which will travel to the Battambang province of Cambodia

Young people are to be given a flying start to their working lives with a new jobs and training initiative from a Paisley building firm. City Gate Construction (CGC) has announced the launch of ‘Bright Futures’ - the new name for all the training and workplace experience it offers young