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A Scottish construction company has been fined £40,000 after a safety incident where an apprentice joiner's thumb was severed. 3B Construction Ltd pleaded guilty in Tain Sheriff Court to breaches of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 relating to failures at Hope Lodge, Tongue between

Farrans has begun construction on a new Caithness wind farm which will eventually power around 84,000 Scottish homes per year. Energy company RWE is developing the 62.7 MW Golticlay Onshore Wind Farm, located five kilometres north-west of Lybster.

Dundee construction firm Kilmac has announced a record-breaking year, with profits soaring on the back of several major school construction projects.

Despite the rise of remote working and soaring urban house prices, UK cities have seen a significant surge in popularity among first-time buyers over the last decade, according to Rightmove.

Edinburgh Gin is celebrating a Silver award win at the 2025 Scottish Design Awards for its newly opened flagship distillery and visitor experience beneath the iconic historic arches in Edinburgh’s Old Town. The award recognises the ambitious and bold reimagining of five listed Victorian arches

Robertson has been awarded the Armed Forces Covenant Silver Employer Award in recognition of its work to support the armed forces community through employment and training opportunities. Accredited through the Ministry of Defence’s Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS), the award is testament to t

George Rowe, managing director of Glasgow-based MegaTech Projects, has received an Outstanding Achievement Award, sponsored by Egnyte, from the Civil Engineering Contractors Association (Southern) after 39 years of high service to construction. George, a former professional footballer, was recognise

Trust Housing Association has marked the start of work on 48 new homes at Reema Road, near Bellshill town centre in North Lanarkshire.

Barratt Redrow site managers have won 115 NHBC Pride in the Job Quality Awards for the quality of the homes they are building.

Dundee-based construction firm, George Martin Builders, has secured approval to build fifteen new flats in Arbroath’s town centre, a decision councillors believe will help alleviate the town’s “dire” housing situation. The four-storey block, a project for Hillcrest Housing As

Barratt and David Wilson Homes West Scotland have been named Large Housebuilder of the Year at the 2025 Scottish Home Awards.

The Forth Bridge will this weekend mark 10 years since the iconic landmark was officially inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.  The bridge became Scotland’s sixth World Heritage Site on 5 July 2015. It joined Edinburgh’s Old and New Towns, the Heart of Neolithic Orkney, New La

An 10-year old pupil from Milltimber School has won a competition to name a new sculpture, located at a new playpark at a landmark Aberdeen development. Ebony Lorraine Taggart, who has just completed P5, suggested that the horse statue at Cala’s Oldfold Village development should be called &ls

A local campaign is seeking to save a church which inspired Lewis Grassic Gibbon's famous Scottish novel, Sunset Song. The Church of Scotland is trying to find a buyer for Arbuthnott Church in Aberdeenshire, which prominently appears in the novel.

A recently promoted manager at Highland housebuilder Tulloch Homes, part of Springfield Group, has earned a coveted national award for his work at the Maples development in Inverness. Cameron Brand, who has advanced from project manager to contracts manager, secured the esteemed NHBC Pride in the Jo