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Ayrshire Housing and the Energy Agency are hosting a free CPD event this month to highlight some of the latest work in energy efficiency and air quality. Building managers and designers, and policy makers are frequently disappointed by the gap between design intentions and experienced performance wh

Housing minister opens Shettleston Housing Association’s latest development Shettleston Housing Association welcomed Kevin Stewart, minister for local government and housing, residents and many other guests to the official opening of its latest new build development Fernan Gardens this week.

Some footballers turn to management or television work after they retire but that's not possible for all players. A scheme is helping players in Scotland train for different career options.

The fate of Edinburgh’s Old Royal High School has moved a step closer to being decided after the City of Edinburgh Council unanimously approved plans to transform the building into a music school. Under the plans submitted by the Royal High School Preservation Trust, the A-listed former school

Housebuilder Bellway has acquired more than 55 acres of land with a development value of some £120 million as part of its continued expansion across the east of Scotland. The firm said the sites – at Abbey Lane in Edinburgh city centre, Broxburn and Heartlands in West Lothian and Broxden in Perth

The City of Edinburgh Council’s development management committee has given the green light to a £500 million masterplan which proposes the construction of more than 2,000 new homes at Edinburgh Marina at Granton. Following the council’s decision in principle last December to grant permission fo

Increased competition has contributed to a fall in turnover and profits for road maintenance provider Bear Scotland. Accounts filed at Companies House revealed that Perth-based Bear’s revenues fell 18 per cent to £73.7 million in 2015.

North Lanarkshire Council has unveiled plans to build a further 1,000 new councils homes to help tackle its housing waiting list. The local authority is set to approve the £160 million development project which will add to the 800 new properties to which the authority has already committed over the

Jenny Laing Councillors in Aberdeen have agreed to progress plans for an arms-length external organisation (ALEO) to manage all the local authority’s energy-related activity.

Lord Hardie The Edinburgh trams inquiry could result in criminal prosecutions, according to its chair Lord Hardie.

AS Homes (Scotland) Ltd has been granted planning permission for a new £8.5 million development of 67 homes for social rent in Renfrew for Sanctuary Scotland Housing Association. The homes are being built at Inchinnan Road, Western Park, on the site of the former Renfrew Junior FC pitch. The applic

The opening of a new £48.5m school campus in the Highlands is likely to be delayed, the local authority has revealed. The campus is being delivered by hub North Scotland to replace Wick High School and Pulteneytown and South primaries. It will also have community facilities which will be available

Neil Watson, Cairnhill Structures group managing director presenting London Scottish winger Jason Harries with his Man of the Match award after a match with Doncaster Knights, which Cairnhill sponsored last season Cairnhill strikes sponsorship deal with London Scottish

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the official opening of the Tay Road Bridge. Opened by the Queen Mother in front of a packed crowd on this day in 1966, the crossing connected the city of jute, jam and journalism to the Kingdom of Fife.

Leo Quinn Balfour Beatty has recorded an underlying profit of £7 million despite a £66m loss in its UK construction services.