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A social housing development in Leith scooped the prestigious Saltire medal and the top housing design award at the 2018 Saltire Society Housing Design Awards in Edinburgh.

The Avon Aqueduct on the Union Canal near Linlithgow is just one of more than 4,100 assets in Scottish Canals’ care Scottish Canals has launched a new strategy setting out how the organisation will manage, care for, and prioritise works on the infrastructure of the nation’s 250-year-old waterway

New figures published by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) have underlined fears of a skills gap timebomb in the UK construction sector. The report, which examined the make-up of the UK construction workforce, found clear evidence that the workforce is ageing. In the 20-year period to 2011, th

Eleven site managers from Miller Homes have been acknowledged for their work in building new homes safely and to the highest quality at the NHBC Pride in the Job Quality Awards. The NHBC-backed awards, which are widely recognised as being among the most prestigious in the industry, recognise site ma

July sees the 2018 Summer Season of the award-winning Business Fives’ popular business five-a-side tournament kick off. For the first time they are extending their reach to football loving professionals across five Scottish cities. With continued support from Scottish Construction Now, Scottish Ho

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.