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A new standard for 'zero carbon' social housing, a quarter of a million-pound investment in electric vehicles and the restoration of peatlands are to be among the first projects launched as part of Renfrewshire Council's £1 million investment to tackle climate change.

Mears has announced plans to take on 20 new apprentices in partnership with North Lanarkshire Council. The successful applicants will get the opportunity to start a career repairing and maintaining thousands of tenanted properties and public buildings in their home towns.

Taylor Wimpey has released a video from some of its employees in Scotland to highlight the life-changing opportunities that apprenticeships offer young people, and the wider benefits they provide for the housebuilding industry and the country as a whole.

At just 17 years old, Ryan MacIsaac already has big plans for his career. The apprentice plumber has his sights on a top job at Stewart Milne Group as he marks Scottish Apprenticeship Week (1st – 5th March, 2021). Ryan, who started his apprenticeship with the independent home builder and timbe

Anyone looking for a satisfying career, whether a school-leaver or someone contemplating a career change, should consider the benefits of undertaking a plumbing apprenticeship, according to SNIPEF chief executive, Fiona Hodgson. To mark Scottish Apprenticeship Week, which runs from 1-5 Mar

A bridge over the Dighty Burn in Dundee looks set to have a second phase of restoration works costing almost £700,000.

A mysterious artwork painted on the brickwork of the former Reading Prison is speculated to be a Banksy piece depicting its most famous inmate, Oscar Wilde. The mural shows a prisoner rappelling down one of the prison's exterior walls using paper from a typewriter as a rope.

Persimmon has committed to doubling the size of its construction quality control team as the housebuilder continues to address its quality failings over the past two years.

Planning permission in principle is being sought for a mixed-use development that could deliver up to 450 homes next to Dunfermline’s new £180 million super campus.

Grandhome Trust has unveiled Malcolm Allan Housebuilders as a new homebuilding partner at its community in Aberdeen’s Bridge of Don. The Aberdeenshire-based firm will build approximately 130 homes offering a variety of property types – from flats to detached homes – to first-time b

Ogilvie Construction has achieved practical completion on the new Premier Inn hotel in Hamilton.

International real estate advisor Savills has announced 12 promotions in Scotland across its Edinburgh, Glasgow, Perth and Dumfries offices. Effective from March 1, the promotions will see two people move up to director level, five to associate director, four to associate and one person promoted to

The team behind the 390-acre Blindwells development in East Lothian has unveiled its latest residential development opportunity.

Kier Construction has completed the £15.5million redevelopment of the Wolfson Centre – believed to be the first dedicated biomedical engineering building in the world - for the University of Strathclyde.

Plans have been drawn up for a new block of 35 flats on the site of a vacant warehouse in Partick.