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The Scottish Government’s Building Standards Division has published new national guidance intended to help improve the quality of building warrant applications.  

RSK Group Ltd (RSK) has strengthened its services in the UK water sector by welcoming solution provider MWH Treatment to its growing portfolio. A highly reputable company with a 200-year legacy, MWH Treatment currently operates across the UK water industry, with over 800 professionals co-located acr

Scotland’s largest construction trade association SELECT has further enhanced the quality of its technical operation with the appointment of Bob Cairney as its new director of technical services. Mr Cairney will start his role next month, taking the reins from colleague Dave Forrester, wh

Industry body Homes for Scotland (HFS) has outlined its intention to work collaboratively with new Green ministers Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater in support of net zero transition ambitions following their appointments earlier this week. Scottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie has been named minis

More than 15,000 Falkirk Council homes will soon benefit from an eight-year programme to replace doors and windows.

The Scottish Government has today laid three pieces of Scottish Statutory Instruments before the Scottish Parliament.

Scotland is set to drive economic growth in the UK’s transition to net zero emissions, according to The Green Growth Index produced by Lloyds Banking Group and Oxford Economics. The report suggests that at least £1.4 trillion will need to be invested in the UK economy between 2020 and 20

Councillors will be asked to approve a £20,000 grant to support the Dundee Museum of Transport’s (DMoT) redevelopment of the former Maryfield Tram Depot as its permanent home.

Repairs to the leaning Millennium Tower in San Francisco have been suspended after it was found that the skyscraper was sinking faster than previously thought. A spokesman for homeowners told the Los Angeles Times that work had been stopped while workers “try to understand better the mechanism

Bellway Homes has been granted planning permission to build 403 homes at the site of the former Ruchill Hospital in north Glasow.

The Financial Reporting Council’s (FRC) executive counsel has delivered a disciplinary Formal Complaint, under the Accountancy Scheme, against KPMG, a former KPMG partner and certain current and former KPMG employees relating to the audits of Carillion. The Formal Complaint alleges misconduct

Scotland’s biggest housing group Wheatley is to invest £100 million in major glazing, insulation and heating initiatives as part of a green agenda drive.

An aviation expert has set up Scotland’s first planning consultancy for airport safety zones. Nyree Millar-Bell spent years as a senior manager with Edinburgh Airport assessing and at times objecting to planning applications that did not satisfy Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) rules.

Helensburgh’s state-of-the-art leisure centre is on track to open in 2022 despite the construction challenges brought by the global pandemic, the local authority has revealed.

Ivan McKee, minister for business, trade, tourism and enterprise, will tell attendees at an industry seminar next week about the vital role that Scotland’s construction sector will play in supporting a transformation to zero carbon ahead of COP26 and beyond. Hosted by the Constructio