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Fife Council leaders David Alexander and David Ross were joined by pupils, project contractors and council officers yesterday to mark the beginning of construction work at the new Dunfermline Learning Campus.

The Advanced Industrialised Methods for the Construction of Homes (AIMCH) research and development project is to present its findings and issue a transformation call to the industry next month.

Doosan has launched the new DX1000LC-7 Stage V compliant 100-tonne crawler excavator, the largest excavator model ever manufactured by the company.

Bishopbriggs-based Sunshine Wishes Children’s Charity (SWCC) has received a funding boost from Cala Homes (West) with the award of £1,500 from the homebuilder’s Community Bursary Initiative. The children’s charity aims to fulfil the dreams of sick and terminally ill children,

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Homebuilder Dundas Estates is putting customer experience and sustainability at the forefront of its business after creating a new role and swooping for a senior hire. John Croal has taken up the newly created role at Dundas Estates as part of its plans to redefine the “outdated” new-bui

Through its work with North Lanarkshire Council, Mears Group is focussing on the progression of its local workforce as it supports its apprentices to continue their careers. Mears said it is committed to supporting the development of skills across the local workforce and in 2021 hired 23 new apprent

Former Dumbarton Academy pupil Caiden Fisher has secured his dream job with AC Land Regeneration, a division of groundworks and civil engineering firm Advance Construction Scotland. The 16-year-old has just started work as an apprentice civil engineer based in the Bellshill headquarters of the compa

City centre office markets in Edinburgh and Glasgow are moving towards recovery in 2022 in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the latest Big Nine office market update from Avison Young. The Big Nine quarterly review shows the take-up in the major regional office occupier markets in the

Legal and estate agency Pacitti Jones is continuing to expand its operations in Scotland with the acquisition of Dennistoun-based estate agency Tip Top Homes.

The Highland Council is to invest £1.074 million into carrying out improvements to its housing stock in Caithness over the next 12 months. At a meeting of the Caithness committee, councillors agreed a one-year Housing Revenue Account Capital Programme that will see £940,000 spent on main

Scotland’s housebuilding industry has demonstrated its resilience after new data published by NHBC shows there were 12,599 new home registrations in 2021, a 43% increase on 2020.

Surveyors in Scotland reported more prospective home buyers in January, a sign that soon-to-be buyers aren’t suffering from the winter blues, however, this came before the most recent rise in interest rates, according to the latest residential market survey from the Royal Institution of Charte

Ogilvie Homes has failed in its appeal against an Angus Council refusal for more than 80 homes on the outskirts of Forfar.

Cruden has started work on a new housing development in East Lothian, its fourth active site in the region.