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Women and minority-gender construction students from across Scotland completed the Balfour Beatty Equate Scotland ConStructEd programme last month.

Ore Valley Housing Association has successfully redeveloped the former Bowhill Miners Institute building in Cardenden, Fife.

Hillcrest is set to deliver 298 new homes for affordable rent in the centre of Dundee in 2024, with 160 homes already complete, and a further 85 scheduled to be completed by the end of summer.

CCG Asset Management, the planned maintenance division of the CCG Group, is in the process of installing 2400 Janex windows for 300 residences in Renfrewshire and Glasgow.

The Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) will be offering ten £5,000 RTPI Future Planners bursaries, up from £2,000 last year, to a selection of students who choose to enrol on an RTPI fully accredited Planning Masters in Scotland for this coming academic year. The Scottish Government ha

Morris & Spottiswood has recently completed a social value project for Stepping Stones Family Learning Centre in Stepps, significantly upgrading the exterior play areas of the nursery and revitalising the play environment.

Queensferry One, located in Rosyth on the northern bank of the Firth of Forth, has transformed from a historic military hub into a pivotal development site within the Forth Green Freeport.

As part of Taylor Wimpey’s Spencer Fields development, the homebuilder is providing Percent for Art in the form of feature walls with forged steel railings and panels at key points across the development. Working with its Artist Blacksmiths at Ratho Byres Forge and the art department at Inverk

Network Rail engineers worked through the night to install the steel structures at Anniesland railway station on Saturday.

A £650 million bid by Bellway to take over rival housebuilder Crest Nicholson has been rejected, the second refused approach in as many months.

A new £11.6 million affordable housing development in the Stewartry area is nearing completion.

A Chinese city has placed timers above public lavatories at a key tourist site to ensure the “safety” of its users. Videos posted by local media show a row of cubicles, each with a timer above the door. The display indicates when a cubicle is occupied and for how long.

The Highland Council has awarded the Naver Bridge replacement contract to Wills Bros Civil Engineering Ltd with set-up works commencing soon after 1 August 2024.

The Building and Allied Trades Joint Industrial Council (BATJIC), managed by the Federation of Master Builders (FMB), has agreed a 4% wage rate increase with Unite the Union for small builders. The agreement, which comes into effect from today, also includes one extra day of holiday.

Councillors have approved a new strategy that proposes significant improvements to sports and leisure facilities across the Falkirk Council area, including the creation of a £35 million centrally located leisure and wellbeing centre.