Demand for scaffolding blocks rises in Scotland
Owen Batham, sales & marketing director at Elite Precast Concrete, explains how scaffolding blocks can deliver multiple benefits in temporary works
IN construction, temporary works...
Project management – like never before!
In February of this year, Gill Henry, head of business development at The Cruden Group, agreed to take on the role of project director...
Why industry collaboration is key in apprenticeships
Allan McGill, MD at MEP, sustainability and ESG consultancy Wallace Whittle, tells Project Scotland that with the UK construction sector still grappling with a...
Better times lie ahead for north east housing
Glenn Allison, chief executive at Stewart Milne Group, tells Project Scotland that the business remains confident in Aberdeen’s prospects despite challenges in the housing...
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...
Humanising the workplace
By Bruce Kennedy, architect director at BDP's Glasgow studio
As a designer of workplaces, I’m fascinated by the adaptability of millions of people around the world...
Precast in the frame for net zero future
A precast concrete approach to constructing the building frame for the UK’s largest ever Passivhaus school has demonstrated the material’s potential for use in...
A countryside property with a cornucopia of opportunities
By Jennifer Campbell, head of estate agency in DM Hall Baird Lumsden
IT is quite unusual for a single property sale to so amply illustrate...
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...
Surge in staycations brings host of opportunities for farms and estates
By Paul Houghton, director – head of planning at DM Hall Baird Lumsden, the specialist rural department of DM Hall Chartered Surveyors
FARMING life in...
Better insulation vital to slowing global warming
By Paddy Leighton, UK director, Icynene
THE uptake of energy efficiency measures such as loft and wall insulation must be accelerated for domestic housing if...
Rethink needed on red diesel policy
By Chala McKenna, senior solicitor at Davidson Chalmers Stewart LLP
WHILE there’s a strong environmental basis for the UK Government’s plan to limit the use...
The cladding issue must be addressed immediately
By Eric Curran, a partner of DM Hall Chartered Surveyors, based in the firm's Glasgow office
THE Grenfell Tower tragedy horrified Britain. Subsequent enquiries have...
Mediation’s revival – what surveyors need to know
By Ysella Jago, DRS executive at RICS
MEDIATION is making a bid for revival in Scotland, and if the attention it is receiving translates into the...
Architects urged to get their hands dirty
Wastewater treatment specialists Graf UK are calling on architects to help improve ground water quality throughout the UK. Here, David Stagg, the firm's technical...
It’s time for Scotland to stop missing out on solar thermal
By Stephanie Clark, Policy Manager, Onshore Renewables at Scottish Renewables
IT’S all too easy to scoff at solar power in Scotland, but falling hardware prices...
Wooden workplaces: building for the future
By Dr Mila Duncheva, business development manager of UK & Ireland, Stora Enso
METROPOLITAN hubs are rife with corporate spaces which try to integrate the...
Farming hemp could be the building block for decarbonising construction in Scotland
By Iain Riddell, principal consultant at SAC Consulting, part of SRUC
INDUSTRIAL hemp is cultivated globally – around 35,000 hectares in the EU alone –...
RAAC to ruin: sector must learn lesson that cheap material comes at a cost
Following the news that hundreds of residents in Aberdeen’s Balnagask area are to be relocated after RAAC panels were found in around 500 homes,...
Landmark Scottish Passivhaus school is outperforming targets
Edinburgh-based architect Architype is working on a number of Passivhaus schools, including the recently completed Riverside Primary, the first Passivhaus certified school in Scotland....
