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Built Environment – Smarter Transformation, formerly Construction Scotland Innovation Centre, has announced a new strategic focus prioritising the built environment’s transition to zero carbon and improving the sector’s contribution to the fight against climate change. The new bran

Dandara East Scotland has donated £1500 to Danderhall and Newton Gala Day celebrations. The housebuilder, which is building homes nearby at Shawfair, is sponsoring the community event which kicks off with an open-air concert starring tribute act ‘A Touch of Little Mix’ and singer C

Six of the UK's largest built environment bodies have teamed up to sign a joint agreement committing them to work to create a more diverse, equitable and inclusive sector. 

FK Lowry Piling has completed work at Glasgow Harbour for a new client in Dandara.

Engineering services firm TClarke has relocated from Falkirk to a new base at Maxim Park in a move designed to provide its staff with an improved working environment. The team, which prides itself on the career prospects and apprenticeships it offers, with 55 people currently undertaking professiona

A supertall skyscraper that is both the world's skinniest and one of the tallest in the Western hemisphere has been completed in New York City. Designed by SHoP Architects, 111 West 57th Street is located on Manhattan's Billionaires' Row and has a height-to-width ratio of 24:1.

A Glasgow flat owner who claimed the factor for her building had failed to obtain the best possible insurance rate has succeeded in appeal before the Upper Tribunal for Scotland.

Listed housebuilder Persimmon has said it is trading in line with expectations as demand for new homes continues to outstrip supply. In a trading update for the period from 1 January 2022 to date, the group reported an "encouraging" start to the year with private average weekly sales rates running a

Architects, designers, specifiers, and developers are invited to join a series of Transforming Timber webinars supported by Wood for Good and the Construction Scotland Innovation Centre, to learn how to make the most of the many benefits of using wood for the health and wellbeing of occupants in th

Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has set out its vision for how heritage can be the keystone of Scotland’s green recovery with the publication of its Green Recovery Statement for the historic environment yesterday.  The historic environment sector, and the traditional materials, constr

MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant: Sovereign Centros On Behalf Of St Enoch Trustee Company Ltd

A couple whose "golf-course-view" home was repeatedly struck by golf balls has won nearly £4 million after a court ruled the neighbouring country club should have done more to protect them. As many as 651 golf balls struck the property of Erik and Athina Tenczar, who live next to the 15th hole

Perth's Station Hotel is set to be redeveloped after signing a partnership agreement with the Radisson Hotel Group. A multi-million pound programme of refurbishments will bring the hotel to the standards of the Radisson Blu franchise, the Perthshire News reports.

Aberdeenshire councillors have approved proposals to build Scotland's largest solar farm on a 260-acre site near St Fergus. The 50 megawatt project led by Irish-based Elgin Energy would be the biggest ever built in Scotland, and one of the largest solar projects in the whole of the UK. Over its life

Construction company Balfour Beatty has worked with environmental consultants Ironside Farrar to develop an innovative new tree protection system for the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE).