Good to give this Christmas
By Iain Marley, chief executive, hub West Scotland
LAST week hub West Scotland launched its annual Winter Warmer Appeal for new warm clothing for children...
A call for clarity over UK retrofit delivery models
By Sara Edmonds, co-director of the National Retrofit Hub
AS Scotland’s building industry reckons with the formidable challenge of scaling up retrofit initiatives and decarbonising...
Reasons to be EPC-ful over Energy Performance Certificates
By Calum Allmond, head of architectural services at DM Hall Chartered Surveyors
In the same way that Home Reports have become an accepted part of the...
Busting the myths around renewable diesel
With the UK Government setting the net zero target of decarbonisation by 2050 for all sectors, many industries are seeking a replacement for traditional...
What is the Net Zero Public Sector Buildings Standard delivering?
The theme for Scotland's Climate Week 2024 is ‘Stories for Change’. In this article, Jamie Goth, associate director at the Scottish Futures Trust, looks...
A career that lets you reach for the sky
By Berratt Wong, a graduate quantity surveyor at Kier Construction Scotland
I was born in Malaysia and growing up, there was a brilliant TV programme...
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...
Whatever happened to third party rights?
By Jonathan Gaskell, a partner at DWF LLP
I have written a couple of times previously in this publication about the use of third party...
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...
Digging boom: critical need for asset searches
Richard Broome, MD at LSBUD, an online safe digging resource, discusses the surge in asset searches across the Covid-period and examines why the construction...
Learning from listening to communities
By Mike Harrison, creative director and co-founder of HarrisonStevens, landscape architects and urban designers
What if…?/Scotland is an exhibition that frames hopes and dreams for...
Driving innovation and regeneration can help supercharge growth
By Martin Joyce, executive director of regeneration at Clyde Gateway
The economic outlook for Scotland and the wider UK appears to be improving, if only...
Amid the stark shortage of Grade A office space, it’s time for occupiers to...
By Guy Marsden, a founding director of Highbridge Properties PLC
A recent report from property services company, CBRE showed that Grade A office supply in...
Heat networks – risks and rewards
By Anthony Coates-Smith, managing director of Insite Energy
HEAT networks are central to the Scottish Government’s strategy to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2045...
Social value schemes find their place in company environmental strategies
Kobir Ahamed, sustainability manager at commercial roofing firm BriggsAmasco, says social value schemes are finding their place in environmental strategies
INITIATING a social value strategy...
Apprenticeships: what employers need to know
Apprenticeships have become more common in recent years with around 37,000 modern apprentices engaged in Scotland across a wide range of sectors. Traditionally, apprenticeships were...
There’s much more to Morris & Spottiswood
Following a period of growth, Morris & Spottiswood has become much more than the fit-out, shopfitting and refurbishment services that the company is known...
Can current construction challenges be overcome?
Cameron Gray, cost consultancy director in CBRE’s project management and building consultancy team, explores material shortages and rising costs
THERE has been a lot of...
The growing complexity of facade access
Mohamed Merchant, an associate director at TÜV SÜD’s UK real estate facade access division, explores how the introduction of increasingly convoluted building envelope designs...
Can you refuse to hire ‘unreliable’ young workers?
By Dawn Robertson, partner & accredited specialist in employment law, BTO Solicitors LLP
In the latest quarterly economic survey by Shropshire Chamber of Commerce, published...
