News

A report that highlights the barriers and constraints to town centre living and identifies some good practice case studies has been published today. ‘Town Centre Living – more homes at the heart of great places’  was produced by the Scottish Futures Trust with input from

Those responsible for the safety of high-rise residential buildings in England have six months from April to register with the new Building Safety Regulator.

Kier Group has appointed Jamie McKechnie as managing director of Kier Places, its housing maintenance and facilities management business. Jamie McKechnie will take up his new role from 3rd April following the departure of Mark Whittaker who is leaving Kier to take up a role elsewhere in the industry

Google owner Alphabet has sacked its robot cleaners as part of a cost-cutting exercise.

MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant:  Knight Property Group.

A two-tier commercial market has emerged in Aberdeen, where "rents and terms are holding up for ‘best in class’ buildings, but functionally or locationally obsolete buildings are struggling", according to Savills. The comments reflect activity in the last year with Savills recording

East Renfrewshire Council has started work on the second phase of active travel improvements to Ayr Road in Newton Mearns.

The president of the Scottish Plant Owners Association (SPOA) Callum Mackintosh has been recognised for his outstanding track record of leadership at the prestigious Trade Association Forum Awards. In March 2021, Callum became the youngest-ever President of the SPOA across its 70-year history, and s

The best new public and commercial buildings in Scotland have been revealed at the property industry’s largest awards celebration held in Edinburgh last week.

The NESS Energy from Waste Facility (EFW) located in East Tullos will accept its first delivery of waste materials today for commissioning purposes.

Fife-based specialist flooring contractor Advanced Traditional Screeding (ATS) has joined forces with the Dunfermline Foodbank to help fight poverty and hunger in the region. Part of a nationwide network of foodbanks supported by the Trussell Trust, the charity provides three days of nutritionally b

A project to provide Kemnay Academy with a bus park has been approved by Aberdeenshire Council’s Garioch Area Committee. As well as a bus park providing 16 bays, space would be created for a drop-off and pick up facility.

Engineers and STEM professionals across Scotland who are struggling to return to the sector after a career break have a new opportunity through a scheme launched by BAE Systems and STEM Returners. The 12-week returners programme will be based in Glasgow and is the latest in a successful history of p

More than six hundred residents of multi-storey tower blocks in South Lanarkshire are to benefit from new fire safety measures. Led by South Lanarkshire Council and contractor and manufacturer CCG (Scotland), nine high-rise blocks of flats in East Kilbride and Cambuslang have been confirmed to recei

INCH Architecture has delivered a new multi-million-pound dedicated state-of-the-art campus for the University of West of Scotland (UWS) alongside Dumfries and Galloway College. The state-of-the-art development, co-located with Dumfries & Galloway College, has been designed with the specific int