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CHAP Group staff have emerged as winners of the Street Soccer Scotland five-a-side tournament in Aberdeen. Sponsored by law firm Burness Paull LLP, the event was held to raise funds for Street Soccer Scotland, which uses football inspired training and personal development as a medium to empower peop

Millions of families are set to see their annual mortgage payments rise by an average of £5,100 between now and the end of 2024, according to new analysis published by the Resolution Foundation. With the low-interest rate era firmly at an end – the Bank of England is on course to have ra

Plans for the refurbishment of Brookwood Villa in Bearsden have taken a significant step forward with financial close achieved on the £2 million project. A landmark agreement has been reached between East Dunbartonshire Council, development partner hub West Scotland and main contractor Linear

Aldi has submitted plans for a new £4.6 million store in the Broomhouse area of Glasgow. The development will create up to 35 local jobs within the store, along with new employment during construction and within the Aldi supply chain.

The first Women in Plant event, organised by the Scottish Plant Owners Association (SPOA), has been hailed a success. The event, which sold out in advance, took place earlier in October at the Cromlix Hotel in Dunblane. It was an open forum for all women in the plant industry.

The built environment’s leading professional bodies have joined forces to align the data standards that are used to manage costing, carbon and building and facilities maintenance, in a bid to clear up confusion and shift the digital focus from new build to whole life building performance. In w

The first stage of construction works for the development of a heritage park within the former Prestongrange Colliery and Brickworks between Prestonpans and Musselburgh is well underway with the erection of the steel framework for a new engine shed. The engine shed will be a purpose-built location t

Network Rail has announced the option that will be taken forward to detailed design for the redevelopment of Troon station following feedback from the local community, Following the fire which destroyed the station building at Troon in July 2021, Network Rail developed three concept design opti

Cruden Building has provided a helping hand to a school in Port Glasgow. Working closely with Craigmarloch School, Cruden’s community benefits team donated and installed a new external play trail to provide pupils with a high quality and safe outdoor area in which they can learn and play. This

BAM has announced three new lettings at its Grade A office Capital Square in Edinburgh, taking the development to almost 90% occupancy. Following its acquisition of civil engineering firm Peter Brett Associates, Stantec is relocating staff based across two Edinburgh offices (in Eastfield House and R

A state-of-the-art £36 million superfactory will secure the Scottish future of a company crucial to the whisky industry, thanks to £3.3m in funding. The huge investment includes a £3.3m grant from Scottish Enterprise and will see Guala Closures Ltd continue its operations here

The Cross Tay Link Road (CTLR) is the largest infrastructure project Perth and Kinross Council has ever undertaken. Scottish Construction Now editor Kieran Findlay visited the project to find out how detailed design development and changes to construction methodologies have helped BAM Nutt

A sizeable plot of land with the potential for houses to be built in the village of Symington near Biggar is going under the hammer at a guide price of £695,000+. The brownfield plot which sits on the edge of the South Lanarkshire village, around 3 miles from the town of Biggar, extends to app

Revised plans to build a 66-bed care home on the site of a former bowling and tennis club in Glasgow. Northcare (Scotland) Ltd submitted a second bid to replace Anniesland Bowling and Tennis Club at Helensburgh Drive with a “high quality” facility after Glasgow City Council pla

TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson is appealing against an enforcement notice that had ordered his restaurant and cafe at his Oxfordshire farm to be shut. The 62-year-old broadcaster opened his Diddly Squat Farm’s restaurant, in Chipping Norton Road, Chadlington, in July.