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Avant Homes has announced a two-year sponsorship of an accredited learning programme that helps students to learn and develop real-world practical experience and employability skills. Avant Homes group HR director Alan McGillivary and students from Bannockburn High School taking part in the course

Dozens of young people across Scotland have been given their first taste of the working world as part of a programme to boost the number of qualified electrical professionals within the industry.

A new hotel is to be built in the rooftop of one of the largest Nazi-era bunkers in Germany.

A £250 million development of the former Tullis Russell paper factory between Glenrothes and Markinch has been given the green light by Fife Council.

More than £20 million is being invested to improve transport access as part of ongoing development works at Edinburgh Airport.

The final school of a £1 billion-plus investment programme in South Lanarkshire has been completed.

Scotland’s construction bosses and their suppliers are at the heart of a new, CITB-funded programme to give construction leaders the skills to drive digital transformation.

The Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) has announced it plans to commission research to identify the most important outcomes in spatial planning and feasible ways to measure them. In an Invitation to Tender (ITT), the RTPI points out that in recent years the assessment and monitoring of plann

Public procurement policy and practice, when it comes to facilitating SME involvement, seems to be focused solely upon ensuring there are opportunities at a sub-contract level. But, asks Roddy Cormack, does this focus miss the sweet spot in terms of actual benefit to the SME economy? There are certa

Plans for further opportunities for social housing have been revealed as West Lothian Council met to discuss details on the updated Strategic Housing Investment Plan (SHIP).

A significant increase in public spending to help move homes and other buildings away from a reliance on fossil fuel heating is required if Scotland is to successfully end its contribution to climate change by 2045, according to a new report.

A construction union has warned it will take almost 200 years to achieve gender equality in the construction industry at the current rate after new figures revealed just one in eight construction workers are women.

Caledonia Housing Association's development team gathered in Perth on Thursday to watch the demolition of thirty of the Association’s former flats in Newhouse Road. The demolition, by David Morton Limited, marks the start of the second and final phase of a £4 million regeneration project

Aberdeen North MP Kirsty Blackman visited Riverside Quarter, a new Barratt Homes development in Aberdeen with NHBC to see first-hand how the site is delivering new homes for the area.

A court in Germany has ruled that a major Bundesliga club cannot host matches at their new €80 million stadium at night or between 1pm and 3pm on Sundays. Residents near the new SC Freiburg stadium have raised concerns about anticipated noise from the new 34,700-capacity stadium, currently unde