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Mark Deans Scottish builder backs swimmer at it dives into sponsorship deal

Volunteer James Summers fixes a lighting unit at a service user's home. An Edinburgh -based charity which assists older and disabled people to continue to live safely at home in the Capital is calling for people to dig out their toolboxes and donate any tools they no longer use.

Technology in the 21st Century is providing us with the means to communicate our thoughts and ideas across the planet in a way that would have been unthinkable, even 10 years ago. However good the technology is, it cannot pick up the subtleties of a language, the culture that underpins it, or even t

Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh (image by Kim Traynor) Tourist areas at Windsor Castle in Berkshire and the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh are to undergo a £37m revamp.

Tim Cornelius Tidal power company Atlantis has entered into a partnership with an investment firm that will see almost £500m sunk into Scottish tidal projects over the next two years.

Ian Almond, hydro engineer at TLS Hydro and Craig Ormond, land manager at Mactaggart & Mickel Homes welcome the new hydro scheme at the family housebuilder’s development at Carrongrove, Denny. A project to create renewable energy has been completed by TLS Hydro Power Ltd on a site owned by Mac

Grant Ager, CEO of Fairfield Housing Co-operative, left, joins Robertson Partnership Homes’ Managing Director Stewart Shearer at the site of the former Zoo nightclub. Perth’s Zoo nightclub will soon be consigned to history when the building is demolished to make way for 32 affordable homes.

Henry Coyle Scottish Borders Housing Association (SBHA) has appointed Henry Coyle as their new director of assets and property services.

A group of students from New College Lanarkshire have taken part in a site visit at one of Graham Construction’s latest projects.

Falkirk Steeple (Image: Kevin Rae) Big grant to pay for restoration work on steeple

Aberdeenshire Council workers have had to erase road markings that have baffled drivers and led vehicles directly into each others’ paths. The local authority has had to remove arrows painted on to Stonehaven’s Market Square car park after locals noticed they were directing cars to go in differe

Kengo Kuma Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has welcomed the “beautiful” progress on the V&A Museum of Design Dundee as he made his first visit to the construction site since work began.

Vaughan Hart Almost one in three Scottish building employers think leaving the EU would have a negative impact on their business compared to 8 per cent who think the impact would be positive.

The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service’s civil recovery unit will recover £2.2 million, under an agreed civil settlement with a Glasgow-based company which accepted that it had obtained business through unlawful conduct. The recovered funds will be used for community projects across Scotl

The Newburgh Underbridge, part of the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route/Balmedie-Tipperty (AWPR/B-T) project, will see more construction activity next week when fifteen 29m long beams, weighing 52 tonnes each, are planned to be delivered to site.