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The Resource Efficient House – a joint initiative by Tigh Grian and Zero Waste Scotland to showcase the benefits of modular, zero carbon housing – has moved from its home for the last seven years at the Building Research Establishment Innovation Park in Motherwell.

SCN's Just a Minute interview feature returns with Spectrum Properties managing director Bill Roddie. How did you get started in the industry? Hard work and determination. I judged that the property sector was the right one for me and decided to get involved. As they say, the world stopped

Scottish start-up QuickBlock has received more than £250,000 in seed funding that will create four skilled jobs and accelerate growth of the company’s unique rapid-assembly building blocks made from 100% recycled plastic into new markets. The investment from Equity Gap and Scottish Enter

The first Sany SY500H, 50t excavator, sold in the UK is about to start work on ten oil platforms in a decommissioning yard in Methil. The machine, which carries a 60-inch heavy duty bucket from Miller UK as well as a six-tonne Fortress shear supplied by Murray Plant will help process more than 23,00

Shirley Evatt at Will Rudd Davidson, who is the lead engineer on the project to transform the old Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh into the university's new Edinburgh Futures Institute, discusses the challenges of the project as well as her views on women in engineering. Two centuries ago, very few

The iconic Teacher building at St Enoch Square in Glasgow has been put up for sale as a prime city centre development opportunity with offers over £1.35 million invited.

CALA Homes (West) is giving potential homebuyers a glimpse of what life could be like at its new South Lanarkshire development.

Planners in Birmingham have given the green light for the world’s first pure octagonal residential building to be built in the city.

MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant: Silvermills Estates And Land Ltd.

A new housebuilding strategy that guarantees net zero carbon emissions for every new home, while reducing the cost of energy bills, has been launched by architects Anderson Bell + Christie (AB+C).

Tulloch Developments is to begin the first phase of demolition work at the old Anderson High School site at the Knab in Lerwick. Work is set to begin in early May, and take around eighteen weeks to complete. This initial phase will focus on physically separating the existing buildings by removing va

Housebuilder Dandara (East Scotland) has relocated into the heart of the Central Belt as part of its ambitious expansion drive to more than quadruple its annual rate of construction. MD Iain Innes, who joined Dandara last year, has led a recruitment campaign to get a larger team in place ready to ex

George Martin Builders have taken over the building work at Hillcrest's delayed development on Dundee’s Seagate. A spokesman for Hillcrest confirmed it had “parted ways” with the original developer Seagate Ltd and had retendered work for the 28-home, £3.5 million develop

Property lettings firm Bowman Rebecchi Letting has acquired Castle Estates, the largest independent residential lettings agency in Inverclyde, in a six-figure deal. Castle Estates manages a stock of nearly 350 properties across Glasgow, Renfrewshire, Ayrshire, and Inverclyde. Its four highly ex

CALA Homes has submitted a new planning application to Aberdeen City Council for a development in partnership with the charity VSA.