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SELECT has given much-needed financial support to its members to help ease some of the challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The trade association for electrical contractors in Scotland has informed its 1,246 members that they will be receiving a 30% discount on their 2020 subscription fees.

Highland Council has revealed plans to transform the Culcabock Child Guidance Centre in Inverness to help meet the demand for housing in the area.

Detailed design and engineering work on the centrepiece of a key space at Dundee Waterfront can begin in earnest following the selection of an award-winning artist.

Aberdeen City Heritage Trust has announced it will now accept applications for building repair grants across a larger part of Aberdeen city centre.

Plans have been approved to give a number of Dracula-themed street names to a new housing development in Cruden Bay.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced that the UK Government's job retention scheme has been extended until October.  The scheme will ensure that workers who have been furloughed because of the coronavirus pandemic are paid 80% of their monthly wages up to £2,500.

In a first for the UK, all new homes constructed by InverTay Homes will be sanitised against COVID-19 and certified as being safe for use.

A disused Dundee factory could be transformed into a retail and restaurant complex under initial proposals lodged with the local authority.

Proposals for a mixed-use development with around 500 new homes in Polmont have been launched by property company Hansteen.

A report from the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) has found that 26% of construction industry professionals thought about taking their own lives in 2019 – before the COVID-19 pandemic had hit the industry – and 97% recorded being stressed at least once in the last year.

Laing O’Rourke has announced the appointment of Rowan Baker from McCarthy & Stone as its new chief financial officer (CFO). Ms Baker will take up her new global role in September and will sit on the company’s group executive committee and corporation board.

Glasgow City Council has rejected plans to build 46 flats on a vacant site in Dennistoun. 

While lockdown is in effect, construction companies should continue to maintain their operations and also focus on what they need to start putting in place to prepare to a phased return to operations, writes Simone Young. During his announcement on Sunday evening, the Prime Minister outlined how res

Home Group has successfully issued £100 million retained bonds in a deal which saw the lowest interest rate that the housing association has ever achieved in a long-term fixed rate transaction.

Glasgow-based David Williamson has submitted plans to build seven homes and a Co-Op on vacant land on Strawberryfield Road in Aberdeenshire's Westhill.