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New York City is slowly sinking under the sheer weight of its skyscrapers, a new study has revealed.

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A bid to Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) has secured funding of £2.3m for Glasgow projects that encourage people to make more sustainable travel choices. The funding will be used to deliver bus infrastructure improvements and network enhancements as well as boosting the recording o

Law firm Burges Salmon has appointed Katy Wall as a new director in its construction and engineering team. Ms Wall joins the firm from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, where she was a senior associate in the firm’s commercial construction and engineering team.

Barratt Developments Scotland has donated £10,000 to support children and adults in Glasgow impacted by food inequality. Launch Foods, which is based in the centre of Glasgow, is one of five charities across Scotland benefitting from a share of the housebuilder’s annual £50,000 fun

A ‘topping out’ ceremony took place last week at Dunfermline Learning Campus, marking a major milestone for the project. Pupils helped cabinet secretary for education and skills, Jenny Gilruth and councillors lay a cement plinth commemorating the school building reaching its highest poin

Hardies Property & Construction Consultants has appointed Ewan Wyllie as head of principal designer services. Mr Wyllie is an experienced principal designer, having worked in construction health and safety for over 18 years with a track record spanning a variety of sectors, project size and comp

Pupils from The Royal High School in Edinburgh have created planters, using materials donated from Cala Homes (East), to brighten up their local community this summer. The project saw 30 S2 Craft, Design and Technology (CDT) pupils working in groups to create 12 planters. Six of the planters have be

Two Springfield Properties apprentice bricklayers have been invited to compete in a UK-wide SkillBuild Competition, delivered by the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB). Andrew Carr aged 20, is a first year apprentice bricklayer and works at Springfield’s South Glassgreen development i

Rosyth-based specialist flooring contractor Advanced Traditional Screeding (ATS) is celebrating after being named Medium Business of the Year at the 2023 Fife Business Awards. It’s the first time the firm has received such an accolade, beating off strong competition to come out on top at a gli

The final building phase at Drum Property Group’s £500 million regeneration of Buchanan Wharf on Glasgow’s Clydeside has reached practical completion with the successful delivery of the new office headquarters for the Students Loans Company (SLC). SLC will now progress the internal

The Scottish Land Commission (SLC) has warned that local communities, family farms, and smaller businesses are at risk of being priced out of Scottish rural land, as it is increasingly sought after by forestry interests, natural capital investors, and corporate buyers, becoming a scarce commodity. T

Work will begin this week on a £334,000 project to preserve the heritage of another historic building in Lochgilphead. The building at 3-17 Colchester Square is the second major project to benefit from funding from the Conservation Area Regeneration Scheme (CARS). The funding package also incl

Award-winning architecture and interior design firm, TINTO Architecture, has announced a merger with Deeside Architects Studio to meet growing client demand and deliver on larger-scale projects. The move comes following an exceptional period of growth for TINTO.

A Perthshire firm with a reputation for energy efficient and sustainable homes is to embark on a new project that blends cutting-edge, eco-friendly design with buildings dating back 2,500 years. Two years on from the devastating blaze which destroyed the award-winning Scottish Crannog Centre on the