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The winners of the 14th annual Trades Awards were revealed on 30th October, celebrating the people, businesses and projects within the construction industry of the North-east.  Taking place at Ardoe House, the event saw 400 attendees and celebrated achievements spanning apprentices and tradespe

A Falkirk graduate has gone from a trainee at Persimmon Homes North Scotland to a quantity surveyor during his degree and has won a 'highest-performing student' accolade from his university.  Niall McFadden has graduated from Edinburgh Napier University with a first-class degree in Quantity Sur

Plans to transform St Monans Auld Kirk Enterprise (SMAKE) into a new community hub have progressed, with North East Fife Area Committee members approving a £20,000 funding award from the St Monans Common Good Fund. The funding will help support vital repair and improvement works at the buildin

MAKAR chief executive officer Neil Edgar has warned that Scotland's efforts to eliminate all risks from housing delivery in turn risk the loss of small firms serving rural and island communities. Through one local-authority route, MAKAR worked through roughly 400 pages of contractual documents. 

Barratt Redrow has reported a resilient performance for the 17-week period ending 25 October 2026, with the housebuilder seeing a greater demand from the private rental sector, despite market conditions facing challenges.  During the timeframe, the housebuilder saw an underlying private reserva

Work has commenced for a new £28.7 million leisure centre for Larkhall, with the new facility being built next to the current centre.

Scottish MP Elaine Stewart has become the most recent high-profile politician to publicly back SELECT’s campaign for regulation of the electrical industry, known as ‘Wall of Support.’ The Labour MP has shown her support for the protection of title by adding her name to SELECT&rsquo

East Renfrewshire Council has decided to extend the proposed Local Development Plan 3 (LDP3) consultation period, which means residents, businesses and communities will have until 22 January 2027 to have their say. 

Avant Homes Scotland has submitted planning to deliver the second phase of its £91.5 million, 343 new-home development at Blindwells, near Tranent. The proposed £43.5m, 169-home second phase, which will be called Althamer Gardens, will follow on from the housebuilder’s current &pou

ETZ Ltd and Scottish Enterprise have introduced the £2.5 million Property Improvement Fund to help vacant and underutilised premises across Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire undergo upgrades. 

Planned repairs for Cot House Bridge, by Dunoon, have been held back, with plans now being in place to start the work in spring next year.

A new active travel route that will deliver safer and more accessible walking, wheeling and cycling between Prestonpans and West Pans is scheduled to start construction in 2027.

The doors are very close to being opened on Ayr’s newest social housing development. Ayrshire Housing is adding 32 new flats to its housing stock on Green Street in the town centre.

The construction of SSE's proposed Coire Glas Pumped Storage Hydro project in the Highlands could support almost 3,000 UK construction jobs at its peak, deliver a near £2 billion spending boost with UK businesses, and generate £1.5bn in UK economic value for the UK, according to a new i

A site just over 4km north-east of Brechin has been identified as the preferred location for SSEN Transmission's proposed new ‘Muir of Pert’ 275kV substation. Following extensive consultation with local communities and stakeholders across Angus and Aberdeenshire earlier this year, the de