Opinion

Brendan O'Hara, MP for Argyll and Bute, and Andy Sloan FICE FRSE, managing director for COWI in the UK, explore the idea of building better rural and island links in Scotland with tunnels for connected islands. Many of Scotland’s rural and island communities are economically fragile, according

Katy Wedderburn, head of MacRoberts LLP's employment team, discusses the UK Government's proposal to introduce a mandatory duty on employers to prevent sexual harassment. The UK has had legislation making sexual harassment unlawful towards employees, workers carrying out work personally and job appl

Fiona McLeod provides a brief overview of the changes introduced by the Scottish Government's revised code of conduct for property factors. On 14 July 2021, the Scottish Government published a revised Code of Conduct for Property Factors setting out the minimum standards to which factors should adhe

As society resumes some of its former rhythms, people are keener than ever to embrace the benefits of local amenities. In this article, Queensberry Properties’ sales and marketing director, Hazel Davies, takes a closer look at the enduring popularity of urban living. As the UK’s vaccinat

Andy Hadden, the co-founder of Tartan Leisure Ltd, the developer of Scotland's first artificial surfing facility, discusses how surfing's surge in popularity in Scotland is coinciding with the sport's inclusion in the Tokyo Olympic Games. As an ambassador for surfing in Scotland, and with

Lawyer Susannah Donaldson considers the impact of the pandemic on gender pay gap figures reported by large construction businesses. The Covid-19 pandemic has somewhat skewed gender pay gap (GPG) figures reported by large construction businesses for the year 2020-21, with reductions in allowance

Ivan McKee MSP, the Minister for Business, Trade, Tourism and Enterprise and chair of the Scottish Construction Leadership Forum, considers the priorities for building recovery from Covid-19. The construction industry touches every part of Scotland’s economy and is vital to our future prosperi

Edward Dymock, associate architect at BDP’s Glasgow Studio and lead architect for EGIP’s redevelopment of Glasgow Queen Street Station to the end of detail design, discusses how the new station was designed. There is no greater proof that People Make Glasgow than to see the city without

Jennifer Campbell, head of estate agency in DM Hall Baird Lumsden, the specialist rural department of DM Hall Chartered Surveyors, discusses the continued demand for rural properties of all shapes and sizes in Scotland.

Mike Harrison, creative director of HarrisonStevens, details his participation in an innovative collaboration that was undertaken as part of the What if...?/Scotland exhibition, originally designed to be staged at the Venice Biennale, but now on show at the V&A Dundee. What if…?/Scotland

Having engaged in the Heat Networks (Scotland) Act since its earliest days, working with civil servants and ministers to provide the views of the renewables sector, Scottish Renewables highlights the work that was carried out and the teamwork that was necessary to achieve these wins.

Sourcing locally and using reclaimed building materials is possible and should be part of the solution towards zero carbon and could help the Scottish construction industry weather the global material supply shortages, says Andrew Richards, co-chair of the Supply Chain Resilience & Capabili

Alasdair Steele, head of Scotland commercial at Knight Frank, discusses the investment appeal of retail parks in the UK. About a year ago, at the height of the first lockdown, few people might have predicted that the humble retail park would be among the ‘winners’ – for lack of a b

Construction Scotland Innovation Centre CEO Stephen Good asks whether net zero is enough and whether Scotland could in fact go further to tackle climate change. With just a few months to go until the COP26 summit in Glasgow, sustainability is fast becoming the defining theme in public discourse

Simon Capaldi, office agency partner at Knight Frank Edinburgh, on returning to the office and how the transition may take shape. One year ago, some commentators were proclaiming the ‘death of the office’. Now, with vaccination programmes well underway, most people I speak to say th