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Construction businesses in Scotland are still suffering the scourge of late payments, outstanding retentions and unexpected charges, a new survey by the Construction Industry Collective Voice (CICV) has revealed. Some 68% of respondents to the body’s in-depth poll said their payment terms were

Councillors at the Development Management Sub-Committee of the City of Edinburgh Council approved planning permission for the next stage of the redevelopment of the Granton Gasholder on January 25.

Colleagues from Holmes Miller attended the grand opening of Ayr’s new ‘Riverside Sport Arena’ alongside its design team partners, stakeholders and GB athlete Calum Hawkins.

Nearly nine in ten construction professionals are concerned about rising inflation sapping confidence in the market and threatening future schemes, according to a new report.

Onsite Construction T Level students have a great new opportunity to land jobs in construction, thanks to the CITB.  The CITB and partners (DfE, IFATE, NOCN, Gatsby Foundation and the Association of Colleges (AOC)) are piloting a new way for T Level students to demonstrate full occupational com

Housebuilder Cala Homes has announced today that it will extend its partnership with national suicide prevention charity, Samaritans, for a fourth year.

Progress on Clackmannanshire Council's plans for a wellbeing hub in Alloa were discussed at a meeting last week as the project enters the detailed design phase.

Edinburgh and Glasgow have ranked second and third in commercial real estate firm Colliers' latest Top UK Residential Investment Cities report.

  As part of its UK real estate forecasts for the year ahead, JLL has highlighted that the stabilisation of inflation and interest rates will prompt more investment activity in the second half of 2023.

Scotland’s newest LCL Awards-approved training centre The Energy Training Academy has opened its doors for business in Edinburgh. Work on transforming a 12,000 sq. ft warehouse into a state-of-the-art facility built over two floors has been ongoing for the past six months.

The Construction Plant-hire Association (CPA) has announced that the CPA Conference 2023 will be hosted on Thursday 9th November 2023 and the theme will be ‘Facing the Challenges in the Plant-hire Sector’.

The Highland Council is to invest over £2.8 million this year into carrying out improvements to its housing stock in Caithness. At yesterday's meeting of the Caithness Committee, councillors agreed a Housing Revenue Account Capital Programme that will see £2,684,000 spent on making impro

Badenoch and Strathspey members of the Highland Council have approved a four-year programme of works which will see over £2 million of investment in heating and energy efficiency works for council houses in the area.

Edinburgh-based Nomak-ik Ltd has submitted plans to build 20 new homes on agricultural land north west of Coldingham Primary School in Berwickshire.

The transformation of the former Plains Primary School site is now complete and home to North Lanarkshire Council's latest housing development.