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The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) is changing its apprenticeship support to enable all levy-registered construction employers to benefit from an expanded support service. Currently, CITB offers employer and apprentice support for its 7,000 contracted apprenticeships, about a third

Taylor Wimpey West Scotland has reached an agreement with South Lanarkshire Council to deliver 67 affordable homes for social rent, which will form part of the wider masterplan vision and framework for the new community that is now emerging at Benthall Farm in East Kilbride.

Guidance has been published for the housebuilding industry ahead of new regulations on sprinklers coming into effect next year. The changes mean all new-build social homes, flats, and shared multi-occupied residential buildings must be fitted with automatic fire suppression systems from March 2021.

The new Scottish National Investment Bank has been set three core missions to ensure it addresses the “grand challenges” facing Scotland. Now approved by MSPs, the missions state that the Bank should:

hub West Scotland's chief executive Iain Marley discusses the launch of this year's Winter Warmer appeal. Last week hub West Scotland launched its annual Winter Warmer Appeal for new warm clothing for children living in poverty. As Christmas approaches, and particularly on the first day of

Andy Irvine is to retire as chairman of JLL Scotland at the end of the year following a 42-year career with the firm. The former Scotland rugby international joined Jones Lang Wootton in 1978 to create a specialised investment team in Edinburgh and was promoted to lead the Edinburgh office in 1986.

Scottish Enterprise (SE) has announced plans to approve large grant funding of up to £0.5 billion for up to 160 new company projects before the end of the financial year. Together, these projects have the potential to unlock investment by businesses into Scotland’s economy, creating or s

New guidance for developers on connecting to or creating district heating systems could be adopted by Dundee City Council.

A programme to facilitate more self-build housing developments across Glasgow is to be launched following the success of a pilot initiative. Glasgow City Council was the first in Scotland to set up a self-build register (now with more than 300 entries), facilitate a unique council enabled self-build

hub South West has held its final highly successful online event of 2020. Nearly 60 Zoom-based participants from companies in construction and related sectors based in Lanarkshire, Ayrshire and Dumfries and Galloway, heard a presentation from Skills Development Scotland’s Drew Reid on skills g

Berwickshire Housing Association (BHA) has shared images of the progress at the first phase of its new build housing development in Beanburn, Ayton.

For the third year running, Redpath Construction has supported the Jimmy Dunnachie Family Learning Centre in Darnley with a Christmas toy donation.

Construction of a new temporary bund along a section of the Old Military Road (OMR) is to begin immediately to help increase protection on the route which acts as a local diversion to the A83 Rest and Be Thankful, transport secretary Michael Matheson has revealed.

Conservation charity, the National Trust for Scotland has launched one of its more unusual ‘appeals’ as it seeks landowners to donate turf to help reconstruct a traditional turf-walled ‘creel’ house in Glencoe. Creel houses have been completely lost from Scotland’s arch

Plans have been unveiled to construct a large-scale renewable energy park designed to deliver between 150 – 200 megawatts of green energy to supply to the Scottish grid, with the capacity to power tens of thousands of homes across the north-east of Scotland. It is estimated that 1500 jobs will