Opening the door to a greener world
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.
Innovation, collaboration, and solutions for Scotland’s housing crisis
By Steven Simpson, MD of Cruden Group
As 2025 dawns, the housebuilding industry finds itself at a crossroads, still facing economic and political challenges, yet...
To dream an impossible dream…no matter how hopeless
By Andrew Leslie, chief executive – The Association for Project Safety
LABOUR'S quest is for the industry to build 370,000 new homes in England every...
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...
Blending the old with the new in landmark Virgin Hotel
By Leo Shand, senior BIM coordinator at Will Rudd (Glasgow Office)
THE new Virgin Hotel in Edinburgh is a flagship project that involves the...
Climate policy must roll forward, not backward
By Peter Exley, professor and dean, Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Built Environment, Robert Gordon University
No moral case seems strong enough to compel...
Urban or suburban – the eternal dilemma
We often think of flight to the suburbs as a modern phenomenon, but a conflict has raged for centuries between urban and suburban living....
Churches are part of our national treasure, but valuation presents a professional challenge
By Adam Jennings, a surveyor in the Glasgow North office of DM Hall Chartered Surveyors
SCOTLAND'S churches are part of a long and proud heritage....
How to avoid façade warranty problems
By Mohamed Merchant, an associate director at TÜV SÜD Dunbar Boardman
Myths about accidents in the workplace
By Ellie Campbell, a freelance content writer and campaign manager for Thompsons Scotland
THERE is no denying that workplaces have become a whole lot safer...
Time to start breaking down planning barriers
BY Andrew Mickel, director of Mactaggart & Mickel Group
PLANNING may not be the most exciting subject in the world, and most people don’t think...
Designing homes for a connected future
By Hazel Davies, sales and marketing director of Queensberry Properties
HOUSEBUILDING has always been a highly technical process, but historically, electrical specifications were relatively simple....
The coordination crisis no one’s talking about
Ian Rogers, CEO and founder of construction consultancy Procync, explores the reasons why so many projects go over time, budget, or underdeliver
THERE is a...
Time to take stock and build workplaces of the future
By Andy Cunningham, senior director at CBRE
A recent report published by CBRE shows that Grade A office supply in Glasgow has now reached a...
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...
Putting employees at the heart of your business can reap huge rewards
By Lorraine Usher, Chief Executive, Loreburn Housing Association
LAST month, a small social landlord in Dumfries and Galloway, which isn’t exactly a household name, was...
Scotland’s people deserve better on housing
By Jane Wood, chief executive of Homes for Scotland
Last week, Homes for Scotland held its annual conference in our great capital city, less than a...
Don’t let embodied carbon undermine your net zero plans
By Grace Mair, regional director at Thomas & Adamson, part of Egis Group
HUGE amounts of resource are being invested in improving the sustainability of...
How can Scotland face the challenges of climate change?
ICE Scotland chair, Donald Bell, explains the need for simultaneous progress on net zero and climate resilience.
SOCIETY is facing two major challenges: achieving net...
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...
























