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The Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) and digital planning pioneers Future Cities Catapult (FCC) have jointly called on the planning profession to make bolder steps to embrace digital technology. The two organisations have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to build awareness amongst RTPI

Offsite construction specialist Innovaré outlines why the construction industry needs to evolve in order to progress.

Work on a new £20 million hotel and restaurant is set to start early next year.

Pedestrian crossings activated by a mobile phone app will be introduced in Clydebank as part of a new improvement project. The system – called Button by Neatebox – is just one of the steps being taken by West Dunbartonshire Council to ensure its Connecting Clydebank initiative is suitabl

Plans to expand the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) in Glasgow to create “the best event campus in Europe” have now been unveiled. Under indicative plans drawn up by Keppie Design and Arup, the Congress Road site in Finnieston will become home to new event and conference facilities, an enhan

Developer Crucible Alba Group is to build a new 70-bedroom hotel at South Gyle in Edinburgh. Pre-let to Travelodge Hotels Ltd on a 25-year contract, and opening in autumn 2019, the new hotel will be sited on land purchased from Greene King, which recently developed a new Farmhouse Inn on the adjacen

Moxon Architects has significantly extended and reconfigured the headquarters of the Cairngorms National Park Authority (CNPA) in Grantown-on-Spey on behalf of Reidhaven Estate. Shortlisted at the Scottish Design Awards 2017 in the Future Building category, the project provides a new public-facing e

Work to construct West Dunbartonshire Council’s new high-tech heating system in Clydebank has officially begun. The £15 million project, which is part of the regeneration of the former John Brown Shipyard, will see the area’s homes, businesses and some public buildings heated by wa

With the need for more new homes to address the country’s housing crisis top of the political agenda, ensuring high levels of quality and customer satisfaction is a matter of equal importance, according to Homes for Scotland (HFS). The message will be delivered to the audience of 150 senior in

A decision by the Scottish Parliament's local government and communities committee to introduce statutory chief planning officers in councils has been welcomed by the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI). The provision was agreed yesterday during the committee's scrutiny of the Planning (Scotland) B

Holmes Miller has submitted a planning application on behalf of Kelvin Properties for a residential development on vacant ground at Shawlands Bowling Club in Glasgow.

New amendments to the Planning (Scotland) Bill regarding performance, councillors and training have been successfully passed by the local government and communities committee. Graham Simpson MSP said his amendments were required to “protect local democracy” from existing “draconian

Construction Scotland Innovation Centre (CSIC) is to launch a funding call to provide an opportunity for housing associations to trial fresh ideas with new prototypes and processes for future development programmes. A partnership with the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) aims to pr

Landlords that own sub-prime office space in either Edinburgh or Glasgow city centre could be sitting on a goldmine due to the lack of high quality offices now available, research released today has suggested. By refurbishing their office space to meet the demand, Lambert Smith Hampton said the land

A group of Chinese university delegates has been welcomed to one of the Highland’s landmark construction projects as part of a knowledge sharing programme. Robertson welcomed eight visitors to Inverness Justice Centre for a guided tour of the project as part of a collaboration with the Univers