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The senior management team at Langstane Housing Association have added their congratulations to Scottish Housing News on its 20th anniversary this month.

In the run up to the Scottish Property Awards on March 25, SCN will highlight shortlisted entries in the two Architectural Excellence Award categories in its new Architects' Showcase feature.

The public will be given a chance to have their say on proposals to deliver affordable housing in Dundee. 

Shepherd Chartered Surveyors, a Scottish chartered surveyor and property agent, has embarked on an expansion drive into England with the launch of Shepherd Property Consultants. The venture incorporates the historic and highly regarded companies of Bigwood Properties in Birmingham and SJ Higgins Pro

Glenrothes-based manufacturer Sips Eco Panels has revealed ambitious plans to double its workforce over the next two years as part of a major investment. Sips Eco Panels designs, engineers, manufacturers and constructs homes for developers, contractors, local authorities and self-builders as well as

The Construction Industry Coronavirus Forum (CICV Forum) has welcomed a call by housing minister Kevin Stewart for the reduction of VAT on repairs and maintenance. The industry collective has backed a letter which the minister sent to the UK secretary to the Treasury, pressing for a reduced rate on

As the Scottish Parliamentary elections loom, the Scotland and Northern Ireland Plumbing Employers’ Federation (SNIPEF) has issued a manifesto detailing the steps the incoming government needs to take to help create a profitable and sustainable construction industry. The comprehensive document

The latest director disqualifications are a reminder to every company in the construction sector of the importance of ensuring that staff understand what conduct will expose their firm to prosecution, writes Jamie Dunne. In the last few weeks, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has sec

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.

An interim assessment of the Scottish Construction Leadership Forum’s (CLF) long-term Recovery Plan for the sector is showing steady and consistently-improving progress. The Forum, a collaboration between Construction Scotland, industry partners, the Scottish Government and other industry stak

Owners of a Scottish consultancy firm are urging employers to nurture the next generation of planners to avoid a crisis in the profession. Directors of Aurora Planning Ltd in Aberdeen, Maggie Bochel and Pippa Robertson, insist action must be taken now to prevent a skills shortage in the sector.

While construction might be the only sector of the economy that is growing, Lesley McLeod, chief executive of the Association for Project Safety (APS), has warned that its recovery is far from over with many members of the association still concerned about sourcing specialist materials and

Balfour Beatty has teamed up with higher education institutions to create a carbon calculation tool for the construction and infrastructure industry - offering a consistent, practical solution for the measurement of embodied carbon. 

Police have been left stumped following the theft of hundreds of trees from the French countryside. Around 400 fine 100-year-old oaks and 50-year-old spruces were cut down in a couple of nights and removed from an area around a village in the Pyrenees.

A property development firm has failed to establish that it was entitled to a reconveyance of a tram line route sold to its predecessors in title that was subsequently re-acquired by the local authority that originally sold it under a compulsory purchase order.