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Scottish-based UK and internationally operating construction and property business Edison Group has made the strategic acquisition of project management, interior fit-out and property maintenance business GDC Design. Glasgow-based GDC Design, which operates throughout Scotland and as far south as Bi

Wolseley Group has signed an agreement to acquire Kooltech, one of the UK’s large air conditioning specialists, as it continues to increase its portfolio of suppliers and distributors across the UK. The deal is expected to complete in mid-2023.

The remodelling of a Dundee multi-storey car park and a re-routing of the A78 dual-carriageway are among ten projects in Scotland be awarded a share of almost £180 million of UK Government ‘levelling up’ funding. A total of 111 projects across the UK have been selected to

Chartered surveyors DM Hall has evolved its working relationship with charities Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland (CHSS) and SAMH (Scottish Association for Mental Health) by purchasing training to support its staff. SAMH provides a catalogue of training products including Looking after Your Wellbein

Balfour Beatty has been awarded a c.£90 million contract by Fife College for the design and construction of a new learning campus in Dunfermline.

Scotland sales and lettings agent firm, DJ Alexander Ltd has opened a new premises in Byres Road in Glasgow. The outlet at 303 Byres Road employs 20 people and reflects the firm's optimism about the strength of the Glasgow sales and lettings property market.

House prices in Scotland continued to rise through the last quarter of 2022, but at the slowest rate since mid-2020 according to the December 2022 RICS UK Residential Survey.

New research from IPPR, supported by housing association Stonewater, has found that retrofitting the UK’s housing supply could save the average household £500 per year on their energy bills when the UK Government’s new energy price guarantee comes into effect in April 2023 –

Ayrshire teenagers are now planning a future in construction after Riverside Scotland and McTaggart Construction gave them a foot on the ladder. A series of two-week placements on Riverside’s new housing development in Tarryholme has inspired young people to seek a career in the building indus

Muir Homes has submitted a revised planning application for a new housing development at Westfield Loan to the western edge of Forfar.

The Painting and Decorating Association (PDA), the UK’s largest trade body dedicated to the painting and decorating sector, has set out its key events for 2023.

Office take-up in Aberdeen rose by 96% last year compared to 2021, buoyed by the sustained high oil price, according to Knight Frank.

An Inverness-based property company has been fined £80,000 after a 64-year-old asbestos surveyor died following an electrical explosion. Global Energy Nigg Limited pled guilty to a health and safety breach committed on 10 December 2020 at Tain Sheriff Court on 18 January 2023.

A construction worker died yesterday at the Foresterhill Health Campus site in Aberdeen.

A general building contractor from California has explained why things actually may go bump in the night, lights flicker, and doors mysteriously open in an article aiming to debunk the common myths that surround haunted houses.