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Construction law specialist Roddy Cormack on the shortages of construction materials and the impact this may have on the sector.  Remember when there was no toilet paper on the shelves in the supermarket? I’m still not very clear on what triggered the run on the roll, but excessive demand

Glasgow City Council has approved up to £1.4 million in funding to help develop a community hub in Possilpark.

Shettleston Housing Association (SHA) has completed a striking new development of 46 affordable homes for rent on its Fenella Street site.

A total of 24 energy-efficient new homes are to be built on a vacant site previously occupied by a gym and social work offices in Leven. Kingdom Housing Association has started work on the £3.1 million development that will see a mixture of common access apartments and cottage flats built on S

Funding for public realm around the Love Loan development in Glasgow city centre has now been approved by the local authority.

The redevelopment of Argyll and Bute Council’s Jackson’s Quarry Depot in Oban is close to completion.

The first four homes have been delivered to the country’s largest affordable modular housing development.

A project to recruit and train 150 high quality assessors for the construction industry in Scotland is back on track following a pause due to Covid. The two-year project, driven by CITB and Energy Skills Partnership (ESP) in partnership with 24 Scottish colleges, government agencies and private trai

The prestigious national 2021 SURF Awards for Best Practice in Community Regeneration were launched at an online event yesterday in partnership with the Glasgow Canal Co-op and the Year of Coasts and Waters. The event, attended by over 60 guests, included presentations from the Glasgow Canal Regener

An Angus furniture business has continued its partnership with a renowned local housebuilder by styling its latest Dundee show home. Millers of Carnoustie was selected by DJ Laing Homes to fit out the show home at its new Castleview development in Dundee, having previously furnished show homes at th

Prince Charles has been given the green light to build an adventure playground in the grounds of his Scottish stately home. The project at Dumfries House near Cumnock will be an extension to an existing playground at the 2,000-acre estate and will include tree houses, rope bridges, a multi

Councillors have approved plans for the £50 million transformation of the former Debenhams store on Edinburgh's Princes Street into a hotel and leisure development.

Contractor GRAHAM has secured a key Glasgow residential build to rent project on the banks of the Clyde on behalf of developer PLATFORM_. The 498-apartment development consists of four blocks of varying height, including a 20-storey tower, on a landmark riverside site close to the city centre which

Responding to the changing working patterns of a post-Covid Scotland, Construction Scotland Innovation Centre (CSIC) has revealed new plans to help retrofit public spaces into out-of-town alternatives to city centre offices.

Tulloch Homes Group has highlighted a return to work to all of its sites and strong buyer interest as reasons to be cheerful after attributing a 50% year-on-year drop in profits to the effects on the industry of the coronavirus pandemic. The private housebuilder saw a “substantial&rd