Chaos in Portugal and Spain shines very bright light on vital role of electricians
By Alan Wilson, MD of SELECT
It has come as a shock of unprecedented voltage, not just in Spain and Portugal but across the western...
Building new homes while meeting climate targets is possible
By Stewart Dalgarno, project director at the Advanced Industrialised Methods for the Construction of Homes (AIMCH) project
THE end of the UN’s climate change conference...
Raising a glass to sustainable construction
Architects, designers and others specifying building materials for construction projects are increasingly turning to timber as a key element of the building design. Alun...
The evolving role of sustainability in business
The role of sustainability in business is constantly evolving, but as Mark Murphy, chief risk officer at the Donaldson Group explains, it should always...
Successful office-to-hotel conversions start with preparation
By Zander Muego, director at Egis UK
THE commercial property market is undergoing a prolonged adjustment. Rising construction costs, tighter regulations, and questions over financial...
Architects have pivotal role to stimulate culture of health and wellbeing
By Alasdair Rankin, MD, Aitken Turnbull
THE last year has brought into sharp focus that one of the lasting legacies of Covid-19 – when the...
Constructing compliance: what the industry needs to know about GDPR
By Lynn Richmond, associate in BTO Solicitors LLP’s data protection team
COMING into force on 25th May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will...
Creating the opportunity for a more flexible skills system for Scottish construction industry
Ian Hughes, strategic director Scotland at CITB, discusses the opportunity for a more flexible and accessible skills system for the construction industry
THE Tertiary Education and...
Incentives are making hydro FiT the grid
Feed-in tariffs (FiTs) are financial incentives for electricity generated from small-scale renewable and low-carbon sources.
FiTs are guaranteed payments to small-scale generators, which are...
Ensuring a smart energy transition: challenges and opportunities
By John Forster, chairman and founder of Forster Group
The journey towards net zero is fraught with complexities and challenges that often seem insurmountable and...
Rent control clarity offers Scotland a second chance at build-to-rent growth
By David Fraser, residential investment & development head of agency at Ryden
AFTER several years of uncertainty, Scotland’s residential investment and development market is entering...
Digital construction: enabling sustainability
Matt Wiseman, global digital innovation manager at Altrad RMD Kwikform explains how digital engineering tools are creating more sustainable construction processes while helping to...
The importance of EPDs in Passivhaus projects
Neil Turner, technical sales manager for Ecological Building Systems, explores the role of EPDs (Environmental Product Declarations) in supporting the construction sector’s move towards...
Retirement housing could take pressure off a property market in crisis
By Hazel Davies, sales and marketing director of Cruden Homes
AS the UK grapples with a housing market that’s increasingly stretched at both ends, one...
Reimagining fossil fuel sites
By Ruth Cochrane, enterprise lead within the School of Arts and Creative Industries at Edinburgh Napier University
MOST of us are acutely aware that the...
Protecting, preserving and enhancing our environment
By MJ O’Shaughnessy, managing director, Will Rudd (Glasgow)
WITH a year to go until Glasgow hosts COP26 Climate Summit, engineering probably isn’t the first thing...
Commercial property sector witnesses fierce resilience
By Anna Reed, data director at EG
FROM the new 220,000 sq. ft headquarters of Scottish Power to the flagship St Vincent Plaza development, the...
Why flexibility, not floorspace, is shaping Aberdeen’s office market
By Andrew Davidson, Balmoral Group
IT'S been a turbulent decade for Aberdeen’s economy - and for commercial property across the UK. The city, so long...
Embracing the drive towards sustainability across the construction industry
By Mark Markey, MD of Akela Group
In less than three weeks’ time, the eyes of the world will be on Glasgow when Scotland’s largest...
Building the future of education in Edinburgh
Even Sorgjerd, director at Will Rudd Edinburgh, discusses the challenges of providing new education buildings in Scotland’s capital city
AS Edinburgh continues to grow and...
