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The Built Environment Forum Scotland (BEFS) has welcome director Ailsa Macfarlane into her new post this week. Ailsa, who first joined BEFS as policy & strategy manager in 2017, previously managed the Resourcing Scotland’s heritage project and worked for Museums Galleries Scotlan

A former care home at 48 Polwarth Terrace in Edinburgh is to be converted into a residential development led by Yeoman McAllister Architects if planning permission is granted. Canal View Care Home is located near the Union Canal within the Merchiston and Greenhill conservation area and constitutes a

Roofing contractors reported a significant growth in workloads during the first quarter of 2021 but were hampered by recruitment difficulties and continued material shortages and price rises, according to an industry survey.

Plans to bring around 120 new homes to Symington have been rejected by South Ayrshire councillors. Banks Property had hoped to secure permission for the new development, which included 25 affordable homes, on a 5.6-hectare Stockbridge site to the north of Symington Road South.

Foundation engineering specialist Roger Bullivant (RB) has promoted Richard Taylor to the newly-created position of foundation systems director. Mr Taylor will focus on the strategic growth for all foundation operation activities and projects across the companies eight regional offices in England, S

A Scotland + Venice partnership exhibition which was designed to be staged in Venice as part of the 17th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, will now open at V&A Dundee later this month.

Construction firm JR Group has been awarded a contract to build new housing in Kirkcaldy on behalf of Fife Housing Group.

Voters safe in South Ayrshire will be kept safe when they go to the polls tomorrow thanks to the work of City Gate Construction (CGC).

A developer has unveiled plans to deliver 16 family-sized homes in Portree on the Isle of Skye. London-based Charles Garton Jones is aiming to build the detached houses next to his Bracken Hide Hotel, off Struan Road.

Local contractor M&J Ballantyne has started work to create more much-needed affordable housing on the historic site of the former High School in Kelso for Eildon Housing.

A self-sufficient and sustainable city of one million people could be built on Mars by 2054, according to a conceptual design by architecture studio Abiboo.

Scotland’s construction-led economic recovery is threatened by a combination of sharply rising prices, disrupted supply chains and a chronic shortage of labour as the consequences of a no-deal Brexit coupled with the impact of the Covid pandemic.

Housebuilder Dandara (East Scotland) has relocated into the heart of the Central Belt as part of its ambitious expansion drive to more than quadruple its annual rate of construction. MD Iain Innes, who joined Dandara last year, has led a recruitment campaign to get a larger team in place ready to ex

The first three months of 2021 saw enquiries with local building firms across the UK increase at their fastest rate in a decade, fuelling significant difficulties with construction material shortages, according to new data from the Federation of Master Builders (FMB) Scotland. The latest FMB State o

A new housebuilding strategy that guarantees net zero carbon emissions for every new home, while reducing the cost of energy bills, has been launched by architects Anderson Bell + Christie (AB+C).