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Wallace Whittle has highlighted a commitment to supporting its junior staff financially while looking to attract and retain the best new talent in the industry.

Bold expansion moves and a proactive financial approach have paid dividends for Chap Group amidst challenging market conditions. The Aberdeenshire construction firm has revealed higher turnover and profits for the year to September 30 2023.

Scotland’s leading electrical bodies say the industry is leading the way with skills and training to help power the technology of tomorrow – and are urging others to follow in its footsteps to ensure Scotland makes a successful transition to net zero. SELECT, the Scottish Joint Industry

An industry-wide survey has been launched today to find out how Contractor Design Portion (CDP) can impact more positively on construction quality. Led by the Construction Quality Improvement Collaborative (CQIC), which was launched 12 months ago to further embed a quality culture across Scotland&rs

Firms from across the built environment are joining forces this week as businesses team up to raise money for charity. Edinburgh-based all trades insurance reinstatement specialist INSUREPAIR ® and Shepherd Chartered Surveyors are the headline sponsors of The Big Match, which takes place in the

A developer who obtained planning consent for a hotel in Glasgow city centre is now seeking to deliver student accommodation instead.

Scotland is at risk of missing its net zero targets unless it swiftly increases the speed of transitioning from oil and gas boilers to clean heat sources, a new report has concluded.

Procast Group has won a contract to bring £2.4 million worth of energy efficient improvements to 36 homes in an Argyll & Bute village.

At the launch of its development of new homes for sale in South Queensferry, Taylor Wimpey East Scotland teamed up with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution to donate £25 for each new home sold and legally completed at Hawthorn Gardens. The latest tranche of £1,075 was donated this mo

Persimmon North Scotland has signed up to become an official company supporter of the Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity – the only charity that provides emotional, physical and financial wellbeing support to the construction community and their families.

Knight Property Group has announced plans to speculatively develop a new £15 million facility on a vacant six-acre site at Belgowan Street in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire.

Firefighters from the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service based at Inverness Fire Station were given a guided tour around the Torvean new homes development in Inverness, to learn more about modern timber kit construction methods.

In what the Highland Council hopes will be a significant boost to the local economy, it has been revealed that two thirds of the subcontractors involved in the transformation of Inverness Castle are based locally within the Highland region with the remaining, who require specialist skills, within r

The crucial next step in Falkirk Council’s journey to deliver economic growth through its transformative £140 million Falkirk Growth Deal could be taken at a meeting of the Executive next week.

A town board which will help direct £20 million of investment in central Greenock is taking shape with the appointment of two council figures. Councillors Francesca Brennan and Elizabeth Robertson were unanimously voted in as the local authority’s representatives on the Greenock Town Boa