Scottish Futures Trust

As a key part of its ongoing mission to find solutions to systemic supply chain issues, the Scottish Construction Leadership Forum (CLF) is making an industry-wide appeal to manufacturers to support the building sector’s crucial recovery.

An innovative online tool has been launched to provide the construction industry with greater clarity and understanding of future public sector construction projects to be delivered across Scotland.

Harper Macleod’s Infrastructure and Projects team has celebrated its 10th anniversary working with the Scottish Government’s hub Programme by looking back on its involvement in more than 40 projects with a total construction value of almost £1 billion. Developed by the Scottish Fut

A study developed to help establish Scotland as an attractive location for green datacentres and to accelerate inward investment from the datacentre sector has identified twelve sites across the country which are primed for consideration.

The final school to be completed as part of a £1.13 billion ten-year development programme across Scotland has been handed over to the local authority.

COVID-19 has fast-tracked a social revolution where a wider range of working choices could be on the horizon for hundreds of thousands of workers, according to a new report by the Scottish Futures Trust (SFT).  The report found that the workforce of the future - predominantly those who hav

Scotland’s hub Programme has delivered in excess of £2.2 billion investment in around 200 projects in Scotland since its establishment ten years ago, an independent evaluation report has confirmed.

Hub South East, the development partner to public sector bodies in Edinburgh, the Lothians and Scottish Borders, is seeking to further strengthen its supply chain with an additional Tier 1 Construction Contractor. In its ten years of operation, having successfully handed over 80 new or refurbished f

A 50/50 joint venture energy services company between Vattenfall and Midlothian Council has been launched to deliver low carbon energy projects across the area. The first project to be delivered under the ESCo will be a low carbon district heating network supplying the new Shawfair town in the

The Scottish Futures Trust (SFT) has published its new Outcomes report demonstrating the progress it has made in supporting the Scottish Government’s National Performance Framework.  Despite the pandemic, SFT’s work, in collaboration with its many public and private sector partners,

Scottish Futures Trust's Paul Devine responds to the Scottish Land Commission's report which highlighted that 11,000 hectares of land lies vacant or derelict.

Derelict land is a wasted resource that should help to deliver national ambitions for a fair and green recovery, a national taskforce said today.

The Scottish Construction Leadership Forum (CLF) has urged the country's construction industry to have an input in its new draft recovery plan for the sector.

As part of its continuing mission to disseminate the most up-to-date information to its members, plumbing employers’ association SNIPEF is co-hosting a free webinar to promote understanding of the benefits of building standards certification. The event will highlight how certification schemes

As the new Queensferry High School (QHS) welcomes its first influx of pupils, international design practice Ryder Architecture has outlined the building's low carbon qualities.