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As new heat and smoke alarm regulations come into effect, campaigning trade association SELECT has launched a goodwill initiative that will see its members install free domestic alarm systems for some of Scotland’s most vulnerable people. Sponsored by Aico, the Alarm Ambassadors campaign will

A community hospital in Aviemore is the latest hospital fit-out contract to be delivered by Dunfermline-based healthcare furniture specialist Deanestor.

Family-focused mountain biking could be the next healthy attraction at Cairngorm Mountain as plans have been submitted for a new bike track in Coire Cas.

MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant: Mrs Sarah Humphries - Greggs PLC 12 Martin Dale Loggerheads Market Drayton

Sandy Morrison has officially opened Hebridean Housing Partnership's (HHP) James Place housing development in Tarbert.

Building work has started on a development of new homes on the site of a former Aberdeen fire station. Housing provider Sanctuary is delivering the project on North Anderson Drive which will create 118 affordable homes for local people.

Councillors have given their approval for a new student accommodation block in Glasgow city centre following a hearing into the plans.

Children’s charity Barnardo’s Scotland has been granted planning permission for new homes for young people in Stirling. Stirling Council’s planning panel last week unanimously approved an application for four flats and a two-storey house on land behind Braehead House at 14 Cal

An interconnected network of garbage trucks could be the new frontline in repairing local roads, thanks to a research collaboration between Swinburne University of Technology and Brimbank City Council in Australia that utilises the 5G network and the Internet of Things (IoT).

Balfour Beatty has been awarded the contract for the First Stage of the Scottish Prison Service’s (SPS) project for the design and construction of HMP Highland, designed by the design, engineering and project delivery company, BakerHicks.

NHS Lanarkshire’s vision for a replacement University Hospital Monklands has reached another milestone with the start of the process to seek planning permission.

Big Four firm PwC is being investigated by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) over its audits of construction firms Kier and Galliford Try.

Residents in Larkhall and the surrounding area are being asked for their views on a proposed new leisure centre for the town. Consultation is underway, with an information page and survey now available on the council website. The survey will remain open until Friday, 18 March.

Dundee-based Summit Facilities Services, which provides core all trade work via a directly employed workforce of electricians, plumbers, heating engineers, joiners and painters, celebrates three years in business this month. Summit has become a mainstay of local facilities services, counting housing

More than 1,000 graduates and apprentices will help transform Scotland’s drinking and waste water services making them greener and fit for future generations. They will play a critical part in ensuring Scottish Water has access to emerging talent when it will invest £4.5 billion over a s