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Hardies Property & Construction Consultants has marked its 110-year anniversary by fundraising for youth homelessness charity Centrepoint. Having invited each of its 13 offices throughout the UK to create an event centred around the number 110 to raise funds for Centrepoint and other local chari

A developer's bid for a 245-house western expansion of Forfar has been knocked back by the Scottish Government for the second time. Guild Homes lodged plans in 2021 for what it said was the “natural expansion” of its Strathmore Fields development beside the Forfar community campus.

A major project to create a new visitor hub on the island of Canna in Lochaber has secured a £20,000 contribution from Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE). Canna is the most westerly of the Small Isles archipelago in the Inner Hebrides. It has a resident population of 19 and welcomes 10,000

Surveyors anticipate that commercial property market conditions in Scotland will improve, with rents and capital values expected to pick up after a lacklustre third quarter, according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Commercial Property Monitor. A net balance of 1% of su

Considerate Constructors Scheme (CCS), the independent champion for change in construction, has completed the acquisition of the Building a Safer Future (BSF) programme. 

The Highland Council has appointed Markon to carry out road marking works as part of a project to revert Academy Street in Inverness to pre-Covid traffic management. Work is due to start on Monday 4 November 2024 and will take between 4 and 5 days to complete. If the weather forecast is poor, the wo

Kitchens International Ltd (KI) is celebrating 30 years in business. The contractor, which started as a single kitchen showroom in Edinburgh in 1994, has grown to become one of the UK’s largest and most respected independent luxury kitchen retailers, with six showrooms throughout Scotland. In

Two Scots who are believed to own the biggest brick collection in the UK are looking for a museum to house all 6,000 of them.

SSE is to expand its Glasgow presence following a letting agreement for Aurora at 120 Bothwell Street.

Goodstone Living and contractor McAleer & Rushe have topped out at Dockside, the ‘next generation’ build-to-rent residential scheme in Leith that will deliver 373 new homes.  The ceremony welcomed over 50 guests, including Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern and shadow ca

Scottish piling and drilling specialist Albion Drilling has been acquired by the UK's largest ground engineering contractor Van Elle in a deal worth up to 3.5 million.

Northern Accountants has acquired Dunfermline-based Empowered By Cloud, accountancy expert for the trades and construction industry, for an undisclosed six-figure sum. This strategic move adds 50 new clients and boosts Leeds-headquartered Northern Accountants' staff to 45, with a total client base o

The Highland Council’s Employability team has announced details of the first Highland-wide virtual jobs fair to highlight new job opportunities that will run from the 11 to the 15 November during Scottish Careers Week 2024. The week-long virtual event is being delivered by the Local Employabil

A partnership between Dundee City Council and a local charity has been agreed this week which will see an ageing community centre demolished and replaced with a new building. The current Kirkton Community Centre will be closed and razed to pave the way for the purpose-built facility on the same site

Aberdeen-headquartered construction industry consultancy McLeod + Aitken has undergone a management buyout (MBO), in a deal worth over £10 million. Existing directors Graeme Beaton, Mark Hirst, Alistair Seel and Grant Jamieson have assumed control from Duncan Moir, Mike Shirreffs and Matt