Signs of recovery for UK housebuilding amid economic challenges

By Martin Smith, chief executive of Muir Group THERE is no denying that the challenges faced across the housebuilding and wider construction industry over the...
David Shaw

Why we should stop waiting for perfection and start making progress towards net zero

By David Shaw, director at Torridon If there’s one message I’d give every commercial property owner, asset manager or occupier, it’s that you don’t have...

National Women in Engineering Day – How to get more Scottish women into engineering

By Patricia Molina Benitez, graduate engineer at WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff Gender diversity is an issue before we even reach employment; in fact, it’s already...
Harry-Smith

Housebuilders should embrace new standard missives proposals

With just weeks to respond to Graham Simpson MSP’s proposed New-Build Homes (Buyer Protection) (Scotland) members Bill, Harry C. Smith, partner and head of...

Green transition presents opportunity for job creation and economic growth

By Martin McKay, chief executive of Clyde Gateway, an urban regeneration company working in Dalmarnock, Bridgeton and Rutherglen. Often we talk about the importance of...

The age of metaverse in construction

By Dr Harpreet Seth, head of architecture at Heriot-Watt University Dubai TO many, the metaverse is a new word, a concept born of the Internet...
Sean Langley, GRAHAM

Scaling sustainability: what Passivhaus adoption means for construction sector in 2026

Sean Langley, senior design manager at GRAHAM, tells Project Scotland what Passivhaus adoption means for the construction industry in 2026 THE construction industry is at...

Why construction companies should set their sights on imaging technology

By Cade Wells, business development manager, CENSIS Construction sites may have been closed on the back of the Covid-19 outbreak, but the sector is still hard at...

Taking a fresh look at the world of construction

By Joanne Casey, managing director of Mactaggart & Mickel’s Homes England division MY son used to boast to his friends that I had the best job...

Going beyond the environmental argument for retrofitting

By Moses Jenkins, sector skills manager, Historic Environment Scotland When thinking about the retrofit of our older building stock, it is important to get the terminology...

We need to make the stars align for building zero carbon homes

As AIMCH, the flagship collaborative R&D project to develop, trial and scale up industrialised housing techniques ends, Stewart Dalgarno, its project director reflects on...

On the RAAC: commercial lease considerations on discovering concrete issues

By Dentons’ Philip Knight, Fiona MacGregor and Scott Buchanan REINFORCED autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) is a lightweight concrete that was widely used in the construction...

Cracking the scourge of potholes

By Rick Ashton, bitumen division market development manager at TotalEnergies Marketing UK POTHOLES are an evocative subject. They are defined differently and assessed without a...
GMG Energy site from drone

Making the Highlands more business-friendly: a call to action

By Malcolm Morrison, director of GMG Energy and joint owner of Melvich Bay Caravan Park My heart and passion lie in the Highlands. I live...

Addressing the Scottish housing crisis: a call for pragmatic solutions

By Fraser Lynes, MD of Cruden Homes SCOTLAND'S housing system is at a critical juncture. The Scottish Government has acknowledged the nation’s housing emergency and...
John Forster, chair of Forster Group

Scaling up isn’t enough: why construction must deliver sustainable scale in 2026

By John Forster, founder & chair, Forster Group AS we enter 2026, the construction sector stands at the centre of the UK’s most urgent social...

Agility and transparency with temporary works

Charlie McKillop, northern regional engineering manager at Altrad RMD Kwikform, discusses why agility and transparency are essential for temporary works suppliers, and the importance...

Partnerships are the recipe for success at MIPIM

By Scott Wilson, executive director, development, Robertson THERE are plenty of famous partnerships in business. The most high profile and the ones that everyone talks about...

New communities need more than lip service from developers

By Nick Waugh, director, Shawfair LLP THIS year has taught us many things – most of them character-forming as my mother was fond of saying...

Striking the right balance over BIM

There is less than a year left to go until the Government target of April 2017 for requiring public sector projects to adopt a...