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Steve Dunlop, the former chief executive of Scottish Enterprise, has joined Crosswind Developments as a non-executive director. Crosswind Developments is the firm behind plans to build 2,500 homes and create more than one million square feet of commercial space on an area around a decommissioned run

The Scottish Government has been urged to reopen its First Home Fund after new figures highlighted the continuing demand for support for those looking to buy a new home but struggling with deposits. The Help to Buy (Scotland) Monitoring Information Report 2020-2021 has highlighted that the Help

KSN Project Management (KSNPM) has announced the appointment of two new directors in the United Kingdom. Following the successful completion of Oxley and BM’s £1 billion, 3,350 unit Royal Wharf Development, Derek Martin and Gary Sweeney have joined KSNPM, following senior management

A developer has failed in its bid to overturn a decision by Glasgow City Council to refuse planning permission for new apartments at a bowling club. Noah Developments wanted to build 40 flats across two blocks of five floors at the Mount Florida Bowling Club site on Carmunnock Road.

Work has started on a new multi-million-pound private development which will see a mix of residential accommodation and commercial space built at Colinton Road, Edinburgh.

A 7.12 acres (2.88 hectares) site in the West End of Greenock is set to change hands as a buyer is sought for former care home Sir Gabriel Wood’s Mariners’ Home and accompanying Mariners’ Court.

Scotland's electrical sector is expanding the remit and membership of its influential Local Authority Forum. Run by trade association SELECT, the ambitious recalibration to include housing associations, universities and NHS estates will help the Forum deliver its collective expertise

Advance Construction Scotland (ACS) has unveiled its involvement in the UK Government's Kickstart initiative. The scheme aims to tackle the rising issue of youth unemployment by providing funding to take on unemployed young people aged between 16 and 24.

BP is promising £10 billion of investment and to make Aberdeen its global hub for offshore wind, if it is successful in securing seabed licences around Scotland.

The employers group of the Construction Industry Joint Council has today launched a new website in partnership with Construction Industry Publications Limited.

Fourteen local projects aimed at improving communities and places across Aberdeenshire are to share more than £2 million in new funding to help drive economic recovery, improve our town centres and support regeneration activity.

The finalists for this year’s 3DReid Student Prize have been unveiled following an internal shortlisting. Now in its 15th Year, the award has had more entries than ever before with 33 nominations from the top UK architecture schools. Tutors were invited to nominate their best Part II stud

The new Torvean Swing Bridge on Inverness’s West Link road has been temporarily taken out of service to allow for adjustments to be made. 

Unused energy trapped within bridges is to be harvested in a major new international project led by Heriot-Watt University.

The further relaxation of COVID restrictions has been greeted with much excitement, yet construction experts claim COVID continues to cast a dark shadow on their industry – and say the knock-on effects of the pandemic will still be felt long after summer is over. The twin perils of a skills sh