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Jim Mather Trade body Homes for Scotland (HFS) has announced that current chair Jim Mather is stepping down from the organisation with effect from its Annual General Meeting on May 12.

An increase in civil engineering and residential building activity has fuelled the biggest monthly output rise of the year so far in the UK construction sector, new figures have shown. The latest Markit/CIPS UK Construction Purchasing Managers’ Index rose to 53.1 in April from 52.2 in March.

The Scottish planning system is soon to undergo reform following an independent review. The proposals under discussion suggest an increasing recognition that children are often excluded from considerations of place. Here, Dr Jenny Wood identifies five ways Scottish Government can improve children’

Construction of the biggest waste water tunnel ever to be built in Scotland has reached the half-way stage. Scottish Water’s flagship Shieldhall Tunnel project, in the south of Glasgow, passed the milestone yesterday when the state-of-the-art tunnel boring machine (TBM) building it reached a point

New Waid Campus completes Waid Academy headteacher Iain Hughes has been officially handed the keys to the new £21.5 million Waid Community Campus in Fife.

The natural landscape of Scotland is stunning, and that's before we start to consider the amazing architecture that can be found around the country. For the short distances between them, four of Scotland’s biggest cities look worlds apart, and have very different architectural histories. Home desi

Brian Manning Staff at Esh Group have paid tribute to chief executive Brian Manning, who has died after a short battle with cancer at the age of 60.

Plans to transform the former family Loudoun Castle theme park into a £525 million holiday and leisure destination have been rejected by East Ayrshire Council, though the door has been left open for future approval. Deemed to be ‘of national significance’ by council planners, phase one of the m

Artist’s impression of how the development would look Argyll and Bute Council has approved Link Group Ltd’s 'Dunbeg Development Corridor Masterplan' of 600 new homes.

The owner of Kilmarnock-based Blackwood Plant Hire has sold the business to the company’s management team. Tom Blackwood bought Blackwood Plant Hire from his father, Tom Sr, in 2001 and has now has now sold it on for an undisclosed sum to a management team led by sales director Paul McCormack and

Dalmore House Housing minister Kevin Stewart has today announced an investment of £8.35 million from the Scottish Government’s SPRUCE fund to support the refurbishment of vacant office space in central Glasgow.

Theresa Hunt Burness Paull’s senior associate Theresa Hunt believes the construction industry will be disappointed with the Scottish Government’s plans to introduce increased planning fees.

Brian Berrry The Federation of Master Builders (FMB) has warned that housing and infrastructure manifesto pledges will be “redundant” unless the construction sector has enough skilled workers post-Brexit.

(from left) Iliana Portugues, National Grid, Khadim Hussain, National Grid, Jamie Hepburn, MSP, Scottish Government minister for employability and training, Gregor Alexander, finance director of SSE, Craig McTaggart, SP Energy Networks, and Dave Gardner, director of transmission SSEN. Photo taken by

New M8 fully opens For the first time ever, Glasgow and Edinburgh are now fully connected with uninterrupted motorway.