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More than 5,000 pupils from across Scotland have benefitted from a new classroom session looking at how technology is transforming the construction industry.

Dumfries station footbridge will permanently close after the last train through the station on Friday night.

Transport minister Fiona Hyslop has formally opened the new East Linton station, marking completion of the latest investment in Scotland’s Railway.

New Gorbals Housing Association has been granted planning permission to build 28 houses and flats at a former health centre site.

A group of allotment holders have won a lengthy battle against one of Britain’s wealthiest aristocrats to stop their communal growing plot being bulldozed for luxury flats.

Savills has enhanced its infrastructure and projects division in Scotland with the appointment of Jessica Arrowsmith as a new operations director. Ms Arrowsmith, based in Savills' Edinburgh office, joins from Edinburgh Airport where she led the change management programme for the operations tea

Scotland's energy minister has called on the UK Government to explore options to mandate community benefits from all onshore renewables projects. In a letter to the UK secretary of state for energy security and net zero Claire Coutinho, Gillian Martin MSP welcomed the recent UK Govern

Marr Rugby is celebrating after scoring a £1,000 donation from homebuilder Persimmon West Scotland.

Ground engineering and site investigation company Central Alliance is working with the Orkney Islands Council to carry out a ground investigation project that forms a crucial part of the council’s Orkney Community Wind Farms project.

Process engineer Briggs of Burton, which specialises in sustainable distilling technologies, is celebrating helping Speyside-based GlenAllachie Distillery to win a major government grant to install the latest energy-saving technology.

Scotland’s leading electrical bodies say they are looking ahead to 2024 with confidence as new figures show a healthy pipeline of emerging young talent – but also insist that industry-led apprenticeships are the only way to deliver the future of skills development. The Scottish Joint Ind

A Scottish charity providing medical and welfare assistance on the streets of Glasgow’s city centre has been given a significant financial boost in the form of a £4,000 donation from Mac Mic Foundation. Established in 2020, Glasgow Street Aid has already treated its 4,000th patient and o

The net zero services team at Burges Salmon has advised UK solar developer and asset manager Zestec Renewable Energy (Zestec) on a deal to acquire and invest into Scotland’s largest airport-based solar farm. The special purpose vehicle, acquired from ikigai Energy, holds the rights to build a

Advanced Traditional Screeding, the Fife-based screeding, resin, underfloor heating and consulting specialist, has become Scotland’s first Kiwa UK-approved installer of energystore TLA. Kiwa is an impartial, global testing, inspection, and certification leader whose Installer Assessment and Su

Lockerbie-based roofing specialist A. Henderson Roofing has been named the winner of this year’s Build Dumfries and Galloway Programme.