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Apache Capital Partners and alternative real asset investment firm Harrison Street are to fund a landmark build-to-rent (BTR) development in central Edinburgh.

The Scottish Construction Now website last month clocked up record traffic, for the third consecutive month, as readers flocked to the site to keep abreast of developments during the coronavirus shutdown.

Angus Council has granted planning permission to regenerate a B-listed disused former mill in Montrose into 26 affordable homes.

Furloughed staff at Barratt Developments will receive full pay until at least the end of May, the housebuilder confirmed today.

Procurement specialist Scape Group has announced a series of measures to support delivery partners and clients during the COVID19 pandemic including extending its Built Environment Consultancy Services (BECS) framework by three months and National Construction Framework by four months. In addition,

With cash flow fast becoming a crippling issue with construction companies, general manager of the Confederation of Construction Specialists, Gerald Kelly, promotes the idea that the construction industry should go back to work. The construction industry needs to adapt and get back to work. Construc

Rodger Group Limited, parent company of M&J Builders Merchants (M&J), has acquired South Lanarkshire Building Supplies (SLB) with support funding from Royal Bank of Scotland.

Onsite wastewater treatment specialist WPL has seen an upswing in contracts awarded through its Scottish Water framework in the last 12 months. The largest of two recent contracts is for the purchase of WPL Hybrid-SAF technology to be installed initially on the Winchburgh expansion project.

With the Scottish Government and the Construction Industry Coronavirus Forum advising that all non-essential building sites in Scotland should close in response to the coronavirus pandemic, Harper Macleod partner Michael Conroy outlines what this means for building projects that are governed by the

The sector should be assured that the housing market will return at some point, as it always does, writes Eric Curran. Property professionals who have been in the front line for a long period of time tend to become slightly battle-hardened and take the view that, whatever crisis comes around th

Berwickshire Housing Association has announced its new partnership with Allia C&C to support the financing of its ongoing development programmes across Berwickshire for affordable housing and its vision to create thriving rural communities. The new development at Springfield, Duns

Masks for Scotland, a charity spearheaded by Jill Belch, professor of vascular medicine at the University of Dundee, has announced the launch of an urgent fundraising plea to the public and businesses to urgently donate what they can now and help provide Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), to those

Greggs has submitted a planning application to Glasgow City Council in order to build its first ever Scottish drive-thru restaurant.

Cash flow pressures and site closures have piled on the coronavirus agony for Scottish construction companies, a major new industry survey has revealed.

The Scottish Government has issued a construction policy note (CPN) which advises that an electronic signature may be used in place of a “wet” signature for signing trust documents in project bank accounts (PBAs) during the COVID-19 pandemic.