A transformative project aimed at accelerating mobile digital connectivity across Scotland has marked a major milestone with the launch of an online platform showing locations of over 140,000 public sector land, buildings and street furniture assets where mobile network equipment can be installed. T
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Experienced leaders from business, academia, third sector and trade unions have been appointed by the Scottish Government to the new delivery board promised in the National Economic Strategy to deliver Scotland’s long term economic ambitions. The National Strategy for Economic Transformation D
Stornoway Port Authority has awarded the £49 million contract for the construction of its new multi-purpose Deep Water Terminal to building and civil engineering firm McLaughlin & Harvey.
The Scottish Futures Trust (SFT) said it is focused on working with its many key partners from the infrastructure and construction industries to improve the economic, social and environmental outcomes from Scotland’s infrastructure as it published its Business Plan for 2022/23&n
The Scottish Government has announced a £4 million funding package to help improve infrastructure on Scotland’s islands. The capital investment will be allocated to the six island local authorities to fund the improvement, creation or safeguarding of locally developed infrastructure proj
Iain Wardrop, associate director working in the Scottish Futures Trust’s Asset Strategy team, reveals how public sector organisations are increasingly looking to better utilise their buildings. Across Scotland’s public sector, there is an ever-growing focus on ‘place’ which r
The number of projects in Scotland's construction pipeline database has increased to over 1,500 across 20 sectors, taking value to £11 billion, the Scottish Futures Trust has unveiled.
Scottish Futures Trust chief executive, Peter Reekie, shares his thoughts on infrastructure trends for 2022 and beyond. It is not rocket science to predict that 2022 will be a year of ongoing COVID recovery, with the world trying to find and adjust to whatever the new normal is for social interactio
The Scottish Construction Leadership Forum (CLF) has hailed the steady progress it has made on its Recovery Plan during 2021 giving strong grounds for optimism about the long-term health of the sector. The industry collaboration body has met significant numbers of the milestones it set itself last y
Cabinet secretary for education and skills, Shirley-Anne Somerville MSP, performed the turf cutting ceremony this week to mark the official start of works on a state-of-the-art eco-friendly primary school for North Perth.
Scotland’s five regional hub companies have delivered 151 new schools and nurseries to the value of £2 billion across Scotland.
A new suite of documents that will enable all public bodies to achieve ambitious net zero carbon targets on their construction projects has been published today. Scotland’s public bodies now have access to a suite of Net Zero Public Sector Buildings Standard documents (the Standard
The Scottish Futures Trust (SFT) has performed a pivotal role in helping Scotland come through the pandemic from maintaining construction on essential building sites to launching an innovative forecast tool to support investment and jobs in the construction sector, a report from the infrastructure b
The first projects to benefit from a Scottish Government programme driving investment in low carbon infrastructure have been announced.
Cabinet secretary for education and skills Shirley-Anne Somerville visited the site of a new £47.2 million secondary school in Wallyford on Tuesday to mark the early stages of construction. The education secretary met with representatives from East Lothian Council, its development partner