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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

A husband and wife team are set to expand their luxury holiday lodge and bistro resort in Carse of Gowrie, after securing a £1 million finance package from HSBC UK.

A US-based robotics firm has introduced an all-electric, battery-powered, full-body industrial exoskeleton that it said can allow a human to lift a couple hundred pounds repeatedly over an eight-hour session without breaking a sweat.

Sustainable modular buildings manufacturer Carbon Dynamic has fallen into administration with the loss of 40 jobs. Carbon Dynamic, or CLDB Limited, specialised in the design and manufacture of bespoke timber modular buildings, designed to be low-energy, highly-insulated and constructed fro

An accountant has pled guilty of embezzling more than £125,000 from two companies including from an electrical firm. Natalie Taylor scammed £88,226 from Motherwell-based McCann Electrical Limited, and while wanted by police, secured another bookkeeping job where she pocketed a further &p

Planning permission has been granted for a new 7.5-acre city centre neighbourhood in central Glasgow, Scotland’s largest build-to-rent (BTR) scheme to date. The investment partnership behind Get Living PLC has secured planning consent to transform a derelict site in the historic heart of Glasg

Shares in Interserve more than halved this morning after the outsourcer revealed it was in negotiations with its lenders to deleverage its balance sheet. It emerged over the weekend that the company was holding talks with lenders over its £650 million debt pile.

The Federation of Master Builders (FMB) has blamed rising costs and continued uncertainty over Brexit for a drop in construction output. Latest construction output figures for October 2018 published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show a small decline of 0.2%, compared with the previous

Housing, care and property management group Wheatley has secured a ground-breaking investment of £76.5 million that will enable it to build hundreds of new affordable homes. The 25-year debt funding deal provided by Scottish Widows, through its partnership with the Bank of Scotland’s Rea

The £9 million transformation of one of Scotland’s oldest and most historic concert halls was revealed at the weekend as Aberdeen Music Hall re-opened its doors. The complex renovation has restored much of the concert hall’s original features and created new public areas with impro

Saint-Gobain businesses Jewson and Frazer have been appointed as suppliers of road maintenance materials to all councils in Scotland through a Scotland Excel framework. The Scotland Excel Framework is a group which extracts maximum value for the 32 councils across Scotland by harnessing their buying

New principles to improve the corporate governance of large private companies have been developed by a coalition established by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) under the leadership of building firm Wates Group. Launched today, the new code was drawn up by chairman James Wates CBE to provide a

Specialist flooring company Integrated Flooring Technologies (IFT) was presented with a prestigious award for its work on the new £140 million Macallan Distillery. The company won the Large Industrial Project of the Year category at the FeRFA Awards, which showcase the best in the resin floori