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To celebrate Scottish Apprenticeship Week, Connor, 24, and Kyle, 19, apprentices with Home Fix Scotland have detailed their journey and explained why they believe apprenticeships provide a route into a rewarding and diverse career and some of the challenges they have had to overcome. After completin

The latest partner within the Link group of companies, C~urb (pronounced curb), will launch on April 4 to deliver a wide range of property development, maintenance and management services. One of the main drivers for C~urb is sustainability, both in terms of how the company operates and the communit

Work has finished on a development of new council flats which are part of a programme building 2,000 new council houses across Aberdeen.

Five affordable self-build plots on Elizabeth Crescent in Dornoch are seeking budding home-builders. The plots are for sale at £25,000 each by Dornoch & District Community Association (DADCA), following a community asset transfer of land from the Highland Council.

Construction works are progressing well at Stirling Council’s new build residential site in Bannockburn Road, Cowie.

A new development of 39 modern council homes in Johnstone is now almost complete - with the first tenants expected to move in over the next few months. The new development at Auchengreoch Road in Spateston will include a mix of two, three and four-bedroom houses, and one and two-bed cottage flats.

Aberdeenshire Council's plans to develop 16 flats on the site of an old Fraserburgh school have been given the green light.

Construction workers have discovered what police described as a mummified body in the wall of a historic building. Police were dispatched to the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center, near Oakland's downtown, after a worker noticed what appeared to be a human body in a wall that was being deconstructed.

Having spent more than three years as part of Civic Engineers’ Glasgow studio, Craig Turner has been promoted to associate director to help enable further growth of the company's Scottish operations.  Craig initially joined the firm in September 2018 as a senior engineer before being prom

Failings by Network Rail and collapsed outsourcing giant Carillion were to blame for the 2020 Stonehaven rail crash which killed three people, an investigation has found.

Balfour Beatty has recorded a £2 million in its UK construction division following £46m of write downs on three residential jobs in London. The result is an improvement on the £26m loss previously, and follows an 18% rise in revenue for the division.

A delicate operation to remove nine old bangers which had been dumped in a Paisley reservoir has been hailed as a huge success by Scottish Water.

The Construction Plant-hire Association (CPA) has written to Chancellor Rishi Sunak ahead of the Spring Statement later this month to urge the Treasury to work with the construction plant-hire sector to address concerns and help build and secure the industry’s economic recovery.

Aberdeenshire Council has set its revenue, capital and carbon budgets for council services, with a focus on getting best value for money. The revenue budget was set at £660 million, while the capital budget over the next 15 years was set at £1.157 billion. Reserves were set at £75m

Barratt Developments has pledged to recruit 23 new apprentices in Scotland this year as it doubles down on investing in new talent in response to a growing need for skilled tradespeople. The 23 new trade apprentice roles are being launched as part of the homebuilder’s biggest ever apprentice r