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Thorn Athletic Community Trust is celebrating after landing a £5,000 donation from local home builder Persimmon West Scotland.

Eildon Housing Association hosted an Open Afternoon event on Friday 14 April 2023 to showcase its latest major affordable housing development on the former Coopersknowe site in Galashiels.

Plans to enable councils to raise the amount of council tax paid on empty and second homes will be included in a new Scottish Government consultation to help increase housing availability. First Minister Humza Yousaf will announce proposals at the Scottish Trades Union Congress today which could giv

The doors to The Scottish Homebuilding & Renovating Show will be open May 20 – 21 when it returns to the SEC Glasgow, making this the ideal time to snap up 2 FREE tickets to the go-to exhibition for self-builders, home renovators and improvers.

A care home developer has failed in its bid to overturn a decision to reject its plans for a 66-bed care home on the site of a former bowling and tennis club in Glasgow. Northcare (Scotland) Ltd submitted a second bid in October to replace Anniesland Bowling and Tennis Club at Helensburgh Drive with

A construction worker from Maryland has won the top prize of $100,000 in a crossword scratch-off game.

RJ McLeod (Contractors) Limited has been fined £800,000 for health and safety failings which led to the death of a 10-year-old boy. The construction company pled guilty to a health and safety at work breach committed in July 2020.

Work has started on the £7.4 million replacement Clyde Road Bridge.

One of the largest concrete bridge lifts in Europe has been completed, marking a milestone in the regeneration of the former steelworks site at Ravenscraig.

Plans have been submitted for a 300-bedroom hotel in Edinburgh.

Edinburgh-based construction and property consultancy Thomas & Adamson (T&A) has been appointed by aerospace engineering firm Leonardo UK to deliver its new 10,000 sq ft state-of-the-art facility in Newcastle.

Work on the new £15 million Beatlie School Campus in Craigshill, Livingston, is ongoing with the majority of external works complete and most internal works now well underway.

Local groups in South Lanarkshire have had their coffers topped up by over £300,000 collectively since 2020 through community grants courtesy of a local wind farm. Banks Renewables’ Middle Muir Wind Farm, which operates near Douglas in South Lanarkshire, has directly contributed the huge

An organisation leading the drive toward net zero is looking for more industry mentors from the construction sector to help the next generation develop carbon cutting solutions.

The Scottish Government’s new minister for energy, Gillian Martin MSP, toured the ACHES (Aberdeen City Hydrogen Energy Storage) refuelling station at Cove this week as part of a visit to meet with key stakeholders across the hydrogen and carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS) industries in t