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Sound alerts for evacuation in high rise buildings and extending the mandatory installation of sprinklers in new flats are among a raft of new safety measures to be introduced next year in Scotland in response to the Grenfell Tower tragedy. The new building standards legislation will also reduce the

RFM Construction Ltd, part of integrated property service provider RFM Group, has strengthened its senior management team with the strategic appointment of Leigh Edmondson as managing director. In his role Leigh is tasked with developing and growing the business which forms part of the group’s

Commercial real estate consultant Cushman & Wakefield has appointed Colin Clement as its new head of project and development services in Scotland. Clement joins from Currie & Brown, formerly Sweett Group, where he was regional director of project management. Prior to that he headed up his ow

LDN Architects and Robertson Northern have revamped Victorian school buildings in Inverness to deliver a creative hub for the region’s artistic talent. Providing urgently needed studios for everyone from photographers and textile designers to an artist who knits glass, the opening of the Inver

Financial close has been reached for a £2.6 billion project that is expected to reduce the cost of offshore wind energy generation by nearly 60%. Moray Offshore Windfarm (East) Ltd, known as ‘Moray East’, will build a 950MW offshore wind farm in the Outer Moray Firth, 40km from the

Springfield Properties has been granted planning permission for 57 new affordable homes in the Scottish Borders.  Scottish Borders Council has approved the developer’s proposals to build 57 homes just off Main Street in Chirnside next to the playing fields. 

The director of more than 90 successful capital appeals has been appointed to lead Paisley Museum’s £5 million fundraising campaign. Eric Grounds, who was responsible for a £35m campaign for Marie Curie and a £350m appeal for the defence National Rehabilitation Centre in Warw

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.