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The Construction Industry Coronavirus Forum (CICV Forum) has welcomed further easing of restrictions for the sector in Scotland and has produced a pack of free practical signage to help with the safe return to work.

Scottish builders’ merchant St Andrews Timber & Building Supplies Group has received a substantial CBILS funding package from Royal Bank of Scotland to help support the business during the coronavirus pandemic. With five sites based in Edinburgh and one in Paisley, the company is

Plans have been submitted to demolish a seafront Prestwick hotel and replace it with a 64 bedroom care home.

Chartered surveyors Graham + Sibbald has made a trio of appointments to its residential team based in Falkirk and Stirling. The new team will be led by Gavin Miller who studied Property (MA) at Aberdeen University and joined Graham + Sibbald’s Stirling office in 2012. Since then, Gavin’s

Scotland’s construction industry will face a potential domino effect of insolvencies without some form of government intervention, warns solicitor Roddy Cormack. The construction industry is facing a real uphill struggle. Although some restrictions are lifting, further increasing the work

The UK Government should relax its ban on combustible cladding imposed after the Grenfell Tower fire, according to a housebuilder. Berkeley Group has argued that tall buildings that feature the same type of aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding involved in the disaster, which led to the deaths

Public health experts have called for a ban on quartz kitchen and bathroom tops after new research revealed how the stone has fuelled a rise in workers contracting an inoperable lung disease.

Prospect Community Housing has been granted planning permission for a development of 69 homes at Clovenstone Gardens in Edinburgh.

Staff at housebuilding and timber manufacturer Stewart Milne Group have been able to make the best use of their furlough period with access to a range of digital courses they can complete from the comfort of their own home. 

The Tayside branch of SELECT, the campaigning trade organisation for Scotland’s electro-technical industry, has made a generous £1,000 donation to the NHS Tayside Charity Fund’s COVID-19 Appeal. Tony Harvey (chair, SELECT Tayside branch), Lorna Donnelly (Tayside Health Fund) a

A major new partnership between North Ayrshire Council and Crown Estate Scotland aims to unleash the economic potential of North Ayrshire’s stunning coastline has been launched. 

Aberdeenshire Council has extended the online consultation on its Proposed Local Development Plan 2020 (LDP) until Friday, July 31. Following close monitoring of the consultation to-date and having listened to concerns raised by some stakeholders, the decision has been taken to extend the period by

Glasgow City Council has approved a blueprint to encourage a growth in its city centre population following a 10-week public consultation.

Following a successful launch campaign led by the New Homes team at Rettie & Co., 46% of the first-release apartments at The Ropeworks new Park Phase were reserved in the opening 24 hours, with all reservation appointments being conducted remotely via virtual meetings due to the unprecedented ci

A US-based consulting and engineering has been awarded a €6 billion contract for building and executing new city in Senegal that has been described as a real-life version of a futuristic country in Marvel movies.