Madras College's Kilrymont campus will be put to good use after Fife Council approved a preferred bidder for the old building. Pupils are set to leave the building for their new school in August.
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To mark International Women’s day, female colleagues who operate across all areas of Thomas & Adamson's business have spoken about what brought them to the industry and the changes and challenges they have faced, being a woman in the construction sector. Thomas & Adamson said it p
Following the recent formation of the New Homes Quality Board to put the New Homes Ombudsman Service into place, a Scottish construction solicitor has urged the Board to give the Ombudsman wide regulatory powers and include consumers who instruct works to refurbish, redesign or extend their exi
Early adopters of sustainable practices, including retrofit programmes, may be better placed to reap future benefits, writes Sheelagh Cooley. In the year that Glasgow hosts the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), UK law firm Shoosmiths joined over 120 other UK businesses committing to
Barratt West Scotland has opened applications for nine apprentices as part of its ongoing commitment to tackling the skills shortage in the construction industry. The trade apprentice roles in bricklaying (four) and carpentry (four), along with a technical apprentice, will work across Barratt’
As works are completed on the first business units that are part of Fife’s flagship City Region Deal Industrial Innovation Investment programme, the business case that sets out the arrangements for a further three years has been approved.
Women on the built environment frontline are uniting this International Women’s Day, to challenge the status quo, stating the case for more women in leadership, with a celebration of the vast impact women contribute to the sector.
Finance secretary Kate Forbes has struck a deal with the Scottish Green Party which guarantees the Scottish Government's Budget Bill can clear its final stages. The deal will see the phased introduction of free school meals for all primary pupils, an enhanced public sector pay deal, new Pandemic Sup
Empowered By Cloud, a successful Scottish Cloud-based accountancy specialist which works closely with the construction and trades industry, has more than quadrupled its workforce in the last 12 months to meet soaring demand – with further hires in the pipeline. Aware of the effects the pandemi
Stenhouse Mill Wynd, a multi-let industrial estate in Edinburgh, has changed hands in a deal worth around £8.5 million. The site was sold by Telereal Trillium, the property company, to an undisclosed buyer.
Up to 2,000 construction workers building a planned 535-acre theme park in Kent could be asked to live on cruise ships on the Thames.
Home builder McTaggart Construction has secured a robust future with a management buyout of the company. The business has over 1,500 new homes currently on site, and a pipeline of projects across the central belt with some of Scotland’s largest housing associations and social landlords.
A multi-partner plan involving the Port of Cromarty Firth has been launched to establish a green hydrogen hub in the Highlands that will see Scotland lead the world in hydrogen technology.
Work is set to start on a new later living village in Inverness this autumn as part of a multi-million-pound investment in care facilities in the city. Independent care home operator Parklands Care Homes is to build 11 homes on a site at Milton of Leys after plans were approved by the Highland Counc
A planning permission in principle application for the Bangour Village masterplan has been approved by the planning committee at West Lothian Council.