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Bill Robertson CBE - Image credit EY Robertson honoured as Scotland’s leading Family Business

(from left) Douglas Millican, chief executive of Scottish Water, cabinet secretary Roseanna Cunningham, and Terry A’Hearn, chief executive of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) sign the Sustainable Growth Agreement (image credit Paul Watt) Scotland’s sewage and solid organic waste

Redevelopment of the former Fountain Brewery site has moved a step closer after council planners approved the first phase yesterday.

Victoria Hills The planning function has been relegated to lower positions in the corporate structure of local authorities across Scotland, a new survey by the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) has revealed.

Council leader Joe Cullinane at the Fullarton flats in Irvine North Ayrshire Council has announced it will move forward with plans to demolish the overwhelming majority of tower blocks in North Ayrshire.

Ash Sheikh Fife-based, family-run housebuilder Muir Homes has appointed Ash Sheikh as its new sales and marketing director.

Construction and engineering firm CBES has been awarded three prestigious awards from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) in recognition of its practises and achievements in ensuring its colleagues, customers and general public get home safely at the end of the working day.

Fourteen people have moved into a ground-breaking Albyn Housing Society development that unites the priorities of healthcare, housing provision and tenant welfare.

Eric Curran and John Albiston of DM Hall More than 300 people will gather tomorrow to mark the culmination of a year of growth and transformation at Chartered Surveyors DM Hall.

How the tram would look travelling along Constitution Street A series of workshops with Edinburgh residents, traders, active travel organisations and community representatives is under way to refine proposals for taking the city’s trams to Newhaven.

Image by Brandon Leon – Flickr: Day 25: Fire Sprinkler, CC BY-SA 2.0 Legislation to make sprinkler systems compulsory in new social housing in Scotland is to be taken forward.

Work starts on new homes to transform Whitburn community

The world's first sea-going car and passenger ferry fuelled by renewable energy is to be developed in Scotland. The vessel’s fuel will be produced from renewable electricity marking a paradigm shift towards entirely emissions-free marine transport.

Plans have been unveiled to create a new £56 million medical manufacturing facility in Renfrewshire. The Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Centre (MMIC) will be built at the advanced manufacturing innovation district next to Glasgow Airport, offering pharmaceutical companies from start-ups to mul

In a major test of the Scottish Government’s public pay policy, GMB Scotland members have delivered what the union says is a “clear and resounding” rejection of the 2018 Scottish local government pay offer.