It’s time we gave our towns and cities back to people

By Dave Kelman, project director for Crosswind Developments Towns and cities have always been places for people to meet and interact, with workers arriving in...

Getting the most out of your marketing post-Covid-19

Rachel McHugh, MD at creative marketing and PR agency, Clear B2B, shares her thoughts on how those in the building and construction industry can...

The Rules of Engagement

By Richard Bright, head of Weber Shandwick’s property division in Scotland  THESE are exciting times for Scotland’s property industry. Investment seems to be flooding in from...

Scotland’s construction leaders urged to make ‘bold’ decisions to achieve net zero goals

STEPHEN Good, the CEO of Built Environment – Smarter Transformation (BE-ST), has written an open letter to Scotland's built environment and construction leaders, calling...

History tells us why we must act on climate change

The construction industry is confronted with historic challenges, as well as great opportunities in meeting the target of net zero, including a projected need...

Governments must be ready to help construction sector go green

By Scott Brewster, MD of Brewster Bros, a resource management business which specialises in recycling construction waste and creating high quality recycled aggregates based...
Sarah-Alexander

To sever, or not to sever, that is the question

WE are all familiar with the court’s approach to enforcement of adjudicators’ decisions – it will only refuse to enforce in very limited circumstances.

Let’s put community engagement at the heart of procurement

After being awarded the GO Best Service Award (contractors working with the Scottish public sector) at the recent GO Excellence in Public Procurement Awards...

Addressing Scotland’s town centre retail challenge

By Andrew Woodrow, planning associate with Barton Willmore I have fond memories of shopping in the 80s and early 90s. Visiting the Wimpy restaurant on...

More action needed over skill shortages

By Ross Mickel, Managing Director of Mactaggart & Mickel Timber Systems IT’S no surprise to anyone in the construction industry that our trade is currently...
Joe Warren, Knight Frank

Time to prepare for biggest shake-up in Scottish EPCs for more than a decade

By Joe Warren, building consultancy partner at Knight Frank THERE are lots of legislative and regulatory difference between Scotland and the rest of the UK....

It’s time to invest in young people

By Peter Russian, chief executive of Remarkable (formerly Investors in People Scotland) IN an environment where margins are being squeezed more tightly and the demands...
Ryan McCuaig, Anderson Strathern

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...

How Scotland’s offsite expertise can open up UK business opportunities

By Malcolm Thomson, sales director, Scotframe IT is predicted that the UK needs around 300,000 new homes every year for the foreseeable future, to tackle...

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...

Hopes, challenges and opportunities: industry faces “unprecedented” tests in 2018

2018 will be a year of exceptional challenges – and also opportunities – for the Scottish construction sector. Project Scotland recently asked a wide range...

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...

We must bridge the gap this Scottish Housing Day for a brighter future

By David Knight, managing director, Avant Homes Scotland For years, the Scottish housing market hasn’t worked in favour of younger buyers. They’ve either been priced...

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...

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...