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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

Administrators have been appointed to Glasgow-based Sharc Highlands Ltd and have issued a call for expressions of interest in the company's assets. The company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sharc Energy Limited, which was originally established to support the deployment of Sharc technolo

New images have been released which reveal how Paisley Arts Centre will look after a £2.8 million transformation. The 250-year-old former church building is being upgraded as part of a wider investment in Paisley’s venues and outdoor spaces.

Household names from the world of construction will help develop the standards for a new ‘kit of parts’ which will be used to create the next generation of government projects like schools, hospitals and prisons. The Construction Innovation Hub has appointed a new Design Standards B

Scotland’s National Transport Strategy must support positive collaboration with spatial planning to meet its commitments to be a zero carbon society by 2045, according to the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI). The Scottish Government has proposed a National Transport Strategy (NTS) which se

Ben Zielinski, a senior associate in the commercial litigation team at Shoosmiths in Edinburgh, considers the significance of a recent judgment in the Court of Session that has given greater clarification of how much notice a landlord needs to give to terminate a commercial lease in Scotland. A rece

The woman credited with opening up the legal profession to commercial ownership has been appointed to lead the new Standards and Regulation Board at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). Dame Janet Paraskeva - former chief executive of the Law Society - will have responsibility and ac