Cautious optimism despite recruiting uncertainty
By Claire Sheerin, director of Hays Construction & Property in Scotland
RECENT research by Hays shows that the majority of construction employers are optimistic despite...
BIM can boost your bottom line – interested now?
By Colin Hastie, BIM consultant, CSIC
IF you’re a business leader in the construction sector, the chances are you’ve heard of BIM. You might even...
Payment reform is welcome but treats the symptom, not the cause
Mark Slaughter, founder and CEO of Renno, tells Project Scotland what a survey of 200 UK contractors reveals about where renovation payments really go...
STA Advice Note 18 – what do specifiers need to know?
ADVERTORIAL
John Mellor, Product Manager at Protect Membranes, explains the Structural Timber Association’s new STA Advice Note 18 and describes the key recommendations for breather...
Environmental monitoring in groundworks: clearing the way for new homes
With available building space at a premium in the UK, there has been an increasing push to convert disused brownfield land into new housing....
Innovation, collaboration, and solutions for Scotland’s housing crisis
By Steven Simpson, MD of Cruden Group
As 2025 dawns, the housebuilding industry finds itself at a crossroads, still facing economic and political challenges, yet...
Churches are part of our national treasure, but valuation presents a professional challenge
By Adam Jennings, a surveyor in the Glasgow North office of DM Hall Chartered Surveyors
SCOTLAND'S churches are part of a long and proud heritage....
Time for a grown-up conversation about how to help solve Scotland’s housing crisis
By Andrew McFarlane, a consultant in the Glasgow North office of DM Hall Chartered Surveyors and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
Housing has...
The value of effective marketing assets
Effective marketing materials are essential for buyers to make the biggest purchase of their lives, ideally combining digital and real-world resources. Queensberry Properties’ sales...
Lost generation creates a challenge for Scotland’s construction sector
By Paul Dixon, managing director, Munro Group
WHILE the UK construction industry has, broadly speaking, picked itself up and dusted itself down since the financial...
Humanising hospitals
By Christoph Ackermann, principal at Building Design Partnership (BDP).
WHAT is a hospital’s primary purpose? To offer a diagnosis for disease. To treat the sick...
Covid-19 – the construction industry needs to heed the hygiene warnings
By Lesley McLeod, CEO, The Association for Project Safety
THESE are not normal times. But, in many ways, the construction industry is just like any...
Testing community burdens in Scotland
John Stirling, partner and property litigation specialist at Gillespie Macandrew, explores community burdens and considers lessons from one recent decision
DEVELOPERS know that humans do...
Knowledge sharing is key to cost-effective, low-carbon housing
By Mike Stevenson, senior manager strategic markets at NorDan UK
IN April, Homes for Scotland (HFS) called on the Scottish Government to ‘pause and review’...
Commercial Payments Bill: a retention headache?
Ryan McCuaig, senior associate, construction disputes, Anderson Strathern, tells Project Scotland what developers and contractors need to know about the new Commercial Payments Bill
THE...
Does quantity surveying need a rebrand to attract the next generation?
By Heather Holbrook, director at Thomas & Adamson, part of Egis Group
Quantity surveying is a vital part of the UK's £370 billion construction industry,...
The urgent need to revive Scotland’s SME housebuilding sector
By Jane Wood, chief executive of Homes for Scotland
Last week, Homes for Scotland (HFS) published a report revealing a concerning decline in the small...
Sustainable innovations for saving water
By Andrew Leah, general manager of Duraproducts
THIS year’s Water Saving Week, 12 -16 May, has the theme of ‘small waste, big impact’ and is...
How to present a showhome
Showhome design is a constantly evolving art form. Here, Queensberry Properties’ sales and marketing director, Hazel Davies, speaks with Suzanne Thomas of Blocc Interiors,...
SuDS: more than just ponds and tanks
By Graeme Arnott, civils and utlities manager (Scotland), PDM
ANYONE in construction will be aware of the importance of integrating SuDS solutions into any new...
