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Timber and builders merchant James Cordiner & Son Limited has been awarded a Royal Warrant for goods supplied to His Majesty The King.

The Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB) has allocated £300K for temporary workers within the engineering construction industry (ECI) to verify their base level of technical competence as part of the Connected Competence scheme.

Persimmon Homes North Scotland is on the lookout for charities and community groups in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire to benefit from its Community Champions scheme.

A new planning application has been submitted by McTaggart Construction and Ravenscraig Limited to North Lanarkshire Council for a residential development and 14,500 sq ft of retail space on the former industrial steel works site of Ravenscraig. The proposals will see the delivery of 48 affordable h

Plans by the University of Glasgow to replace low-utility surface parking with purpose-built student residences are to go on display next week.

A retrofit summit in Glasgow a month from now will look at the work taking place to retrofit homes at individual, community and at-scale levels, with an emphasis on the needs, perspectives and objectives of local projects in Glasgow and the city-region and current themes, policies and practices in

An Australian construction company has apologised to AC/DC fans after mistakenly demolishing the childhood home of guitarists Angus and Malcolm Young.

Miller Homes has appointed former Redrow PLC chair Richard Akers as its new chair. Mr Akers brings a wealth of leadership experience and sector insight to the role, having spent his career in the property and land acquisition industry, including twenty years with Land Securities, and another nearly

The company behind plans for a £40 million holiday resort next to Loch Lomond, which were rejected for a second time in September, has submitted an appeal to the Scottish Government.

An £800 million deal has been agreed to create two further Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) sites in Scotland – each of which is the largest in Europe. Investment fund manager Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) will build two more storage sites in addition to the one under cons

Tilbury Douglas, the building, infrastructure, engineering and fit-out business, has demonstrated its commitment to social value by volunteering an impressive 217 hours and donating nearly £10,000 in gifts to support charities and hospitals across its Northern division.

A steel box built to protect Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Hill House in Helensburgh will remain in place until 2028, the National Trust for Scotland (NTS) has announced. The giant box was constructed around the property in 2019 to protect its saturated walls from the elements and help it to dry out a

Thompsons Scotland LLP has relocated its Glasgow office to 70 Wellington Street. The recently modernised and upgraded building is owned by Clydebuilt Limited Partnership, a joint venture between Ediston and Strathclyde Pension Fund.

Pacific Building is gearing up for an event-studded 2025 to mark its 20th anniversary as one of Scotland’s most successful construction and fit-out companies. The celebrations will see Pacific – which was founded in 2005 with a tiny staff and has grown in stature since – showcase i

A new collaborative project is to develop an online innovation assessment platform tailored specifically for organisations operating within the built environment sector in Scotland.