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The search is on for Scotland’s top engineering and construction projects with the launch of the prestigious Saltire Civil Engineering Awards for 2019. The Saltire Awards celebrate outstanding civil engineering achievement, innovation and ingenuity in Scotland and in recent years, have grown i

A lawyer has urged employers to take steps to ensure they hold on to vital international staff post-Brexit. Matthew Cole, employment partner at Prettys, issued the advice ahead of International Workers’ Day on May 1.

Rugby World Cup winner Kyran Bracken has teamed up with the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) to kick off this year’s UK-wide SkillBuild competition in Glasgow. Around 200 people gathered at the City of Glasgow College today for the first of eight regional SkillBuild competitions aim

The Canongate, a boutique hotel redevelopment in the heart of Edinburgh’s New Waverley regeneration project, has been placed on the market for £8 million by its owner. The former C-listed Victorian schoolhouse will feature 21 apart-hotel style bedrooms as well as commercial units which s

A residential tower in Miami is planning for a Jetsons-esque future by topping the structure with a skydeck for flying cars and drones. The city’s newest luxury skyscraper comes decked out with all the latest amenities such as an entertainment centre, Tai Chi deck, infinity pool and observator

Plans to develop a Glasgow-wide Metro system and a new underground station linking Central and Queen Street stations are part of a radical new blueprint being proposed for the city. The Glasgow Connectivity Commission wants about £10 billion to be spent over the next 20 years on a range of mea

Significant progress has been made in the construction of a new mixed-use building at the Royal Highland Centre in Ingliston. Robertson is building the new event space for the Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland (RHASS), a membership organisation and organisers of the Royal Highland

An Aberdeen electrical company contracted to rewire and install new heating systems in Aberdeenshire Council properties has been fined for failing to put in place adequate barriers and physical warning signs around open floor hatches in a residential property. As a consequence of this failure the re

The Scottish Government has paved the way for the development of 121 homes in a coastal Aberdeenshire village. Barratt North Scotland had planned to deliver 109 houses and 12 flats on a site near Park Place in Newtonhill. A quarter of the properties are for affordable housing.

Cold store, firewall, cladding and single envelope specialist ISD Solutions has started work on a major project creating a distribution centre in Scotland for Farmfoods. The frozen foods supermarket chain is creating the new cold store warehouse near its headquarters in Cumbernauld and has enlisted

Scotland’s construction firms are once again on the front line as one of the sectors worst affected by growing advanced or ‘critical’ distress, according to Begbies Traynor. Latest data from the insolvency specialist found a dramatic rise in the number of businesses that have had w

Edinburgh property group Sigma has launched a new Scottish Government-backed fund to invest in Scotland’s private rented sector. The Sigma Scottish PRS Fund will have initial resources of £43 million, with £30m provided by the Scottish Government’s Building Scotland Fund in t

A housing investment fund set up last year by the Scottish Government and Places for People Group’s fund management arm has acquired its first two developments. Housing minister Kevin Stewart launched the multi-million pound investment last year to deliver mid-market rent homes across the coun

With HMRC currently consulting on changes to the reduced 5% VAT rate that has been available for the installation of energy saving materials (ESMs) in residential accommodation, in order to bring the UK into line with EU law, experts at accountancy firm Saffery Champness have stressed that any

A Scottish solar company that helped build the UK’s House of the Year has won a new award for energy efficiency at the same property. AES Solar picked up the Best Energy Efficiency in a House Design or Build at the Highlands and Islands Renewables Awards in Inverness last week after being shor