Highlands

The Highland Council’s Employability Service and the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) are delighted to announce an exciting collaboration to offer a pre-employability programme which seeks to support out-of-work young people on a pathway to the trades. Supported through the Scottish

A refurbishment project at Northern Meeting Park in Inverness gets underway this week. The work is going ahead as one of three projects along the River Ness in Inverness being supported with almost £20 million from the UK Government’s Levelling Up Fund.

Inverness-based civil engineer and construction expert Hill-Tec Ltd has developed a new partnership to help safeguard the future of the industry in the north of Scotland. The firm has partnered with the Virtual Learning Academy (VLA) to give young people an introduction to the world of construc

A planning application has been submitted for the construction of a replacement secondary school, car parking, sports pitches and demolition of the existing Nairn Academy.

A groundbreaking ceremony will mark the start of work on a new £13.9 million clubhouse for one of the world’s most prestigious golf courses. Morrison Construction has been appointed as the main contractor for the 18-month Royal Dornoch Golf Club project which will replace the current bui

The staff and pupils of Grantown Primary School celebrated the completion of works at their newly refurbished school. The project was managed by the Highland Council’s in-house Property Team who oversaw a number of internal and external improvement works to both buildings. Works to the main sc

The first ten homes in a “truly transformative" housing development in Fort William have been handed over.

Process engineer Briggs of Burton, which specialises in sustainable distilling technologies, is celebrating helping Speyside-based GlenAllachie Distillery to win a major government grant to install the latest energy-saving technology.

In a joint initiative by the Highland Council, Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE), and the Lochaber Chamber of Commerce, a transformative dynamic masterplan for the future of Fort William's town centre has been created with the next steps involving a series of public engagements events being he

A planning application has been submitted for a pumped storage hydro scheme at Loch Kemp near Whitebridge.

Highland councillors will consider a report this week which looks at ways in which the local authority can leverage funding to deliver renewable energy projects to deliver net zero, generate income and maximise opportunities for the Highlands to benefit as a whole. Alongside this, councillors will a

At the Struan development (from left) Front: Cllr John Bruce, B&S chair, Cllr Russell Jones, Cllr Muriel Cockburn, convener THC, Cllr Bill Loban, Compass - Paul Cowie. Back: Angela Matheson (THC project manager), THC - Faye Dyer, Compass - Peter Hunter, Robert Tewnion (Image credit: Th

The land acquisition for the new site for St Clements School in Dingwall has concluded, the Highland Council has confirmed. The purchase of the site was included in the one-year Capital Programme approved in March 2023.

Burns & McDonnell has been awarded an engineer-procure-construct (EPC) contract for the Errochty Grid Supply Point (GSP) project by SSEN Transmission. The development of the Errochty substation will see the installation of new transformers and will renew and modernise the transmission and distri

UK-based orbital launch services company Orbex is inviting the local community to participate in a series of consultation meetings regarding proposed changes to its spaceport in Sutherland. The sessions follow the submission of a Proposal of Application Notice (PoAN) to the Highland Council on 2nd N