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Scottish Construction Now has gone through the 10,000 LinkedIn followers mark in the last 24 hours.

Innovative plans to make the new Currie Community High School one of the most energy efficient high schools in Scotland have been unveiled by the City of Edinburgh Council.

More than £100 million is to be spent improving housing across South Lanarkshire in the next financial year. The huge investment will see 504 new homes being built as part of the council’s commitment to deliver 1,000 new homes. More than 500 new homes have already been delivered, with fa

Plans to build a 70-bedroom care home on the grounds of the Liff Hospital in Dundee have been knocked back by councillors.

JLL has made a senior appointment to lead its Scottish lease advisory team with the appointment of director Andrew Cartmail. He takes over from Sandy Gray who retires in March after over 30 years with the business.

It’s all change at the top as the Electrical Engineering Training Foundation (EETF), the organisation which helps develop the next generation of skills in the electrotechnical sector in Scotland, appoints a new chair and a new board member. The EETF will now be led by Gordon McArthur, managing

Independent hire company GAP Group has joined forces with SITECH UK & Ireland to form a unique partnership in the survey industry.

Proposals in a new report to develop an apprenticeship scheme for urban planners have been welcomed by the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) in Scotland.

Landscaping proposals for the Inverness Castle development have now been lodged with the Highland Council as part of the statutory applications for the planned transformation for Inverness Castle to become a tourism gateway for the Highlands.

The average house price in Scotland increased by 8.4% over the last year, according to the latest figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Charities supporting homeless and vulnerable people and those facing mental health issues in Scotland and England are among 13 key community organisations given a helping hand by family housebuilder Mactaggart & Mickel. The Kindness Homeless Street Team Glasgow, Scottish Association for Mental H

North Lanarkshire Council has marked progress on town centre housing projects in Airdrie and Coatbridge.

A railroad engineer who deliberately defecated on company property and said it was a "present" for his boss has kept his job. Matthew Lebsack was fired by US rail giant Union Pacific after the incident in November 2016, but a federal appeals court has reluctantly reinstated him.

Glasgow-based construction and manufacturing business CCG (Scotland) Ltd has launched the CCG Net Zero Home, a new housebuilding standard that has been designed to respond to Scotland’s ambitious target of becoming a net zero economy by 2045. The Net Zero Home is created using a combination of

Golf governing body The R&A has submitted a planning application to Glasgow City Council for the construction of a new community golf facility that it is hoped will open in the summer of 2022.