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By Tom O’Sullivan, technical specification advisor, NorDan UK Ltd WHEN I joined NorDan UK as a technical specification advisor in 2020, one of the...

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

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...

By Hazel Davies, sales and marketing director at Queensberry Properties, on how architects seek to maximise natural light in properties The importance of light has...

By Kirsty Connell-Skinner, sustainable construction partnerships manager at Edinburgh Napier University & programme manager at HCI Skills Gateway THE shortage of construction skills is a...

With demand for quality housing growing, the construction sector is having to adapt and think differently about how it can deliver against the backdrop...

By Niki Spence, head of sustainable communities at Clyde Gateway EVERY host city promises a lasting legacy. New venues are built, investment is announced and...

Alasdair Rankin, MD of Aitken Turnbull Architects, delves deep into the balance between healthcare provision and the built environment THE connection between environment and wellbeing...

David Terradot-Piot, trainer in construction materials and the industry, UNICEM Campus, Bretagne, France, tells Project Scotland why a French investigation into marine biomass offers...

As part of last year’s World Green Building Week, the World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) issued a bold vision for how buildings around the world can reach 40% less embodied carbon emissions by 2030. To achieve this, changes need to be implemented throughout a building’s infrastructure. Here, Gert De Roover, building, construction and infrastructure manager at composites technology company Exel Composites, explains why composite materials contribute to the drive for greener buildings.

By Greig Fenton, regional director at Thomas & Adamson, part of Egis Group THE great Private Finance Initiatives – or PFI, as it was better...

By Malcolm Thomson, sales director at Scotframe HANDS up if you’ve heard about the urgent need for new homes? Chances are most of the business...

Graeme Pollock is director and head of West Lothian agency at the Livingston commercial department of DM Hall Chartered Surveyors WHILE commercial property investment volumes...

By Stefan Huber, MD, PAUL Heat Recovery Scotland THE Scottish Government is about to undertake a second consultation on its proposed Scottish Passivhaus equivalent policy...

By Fraser Lynes, Queensberry Properties’ land and development director    FOR almost a century, people have worried about suburban sprawl and the growth of our...

By Nicole Carlin, an apprentice bricklayer with Cruden Building. Nicole is currently taking part in Cruden Academy where she is completing a four-year Modern...

By Rowan Carmichael, a project manager at Clyde Gateway LAST week, Clyde Gateway welcomed delegates from the IWA World Water Congress to Dalmarnock, Shawfield and...

By Amy Wimpenny, project manager for Clyde Gateway THE last twelve months have seen a dramatic change to the way we live and work. Never...

By Josiah Lockhart, CEO at Changeworks SCOTLAND has set ambitious targets to cut emissions and tackle fuel poverty. Yet for families living in homes that...

By Marion Forbes, director of performance and organisational change at AC Whyte, and FLIC advisory board member CONSTRUCTION has always been fundamental to Scotland’s economic...