Time to banish the green belt taboo?

By Colin Lavety, planning director at planning and design consultancy Barton Willmore, with offices in Edinburgh and Glasgow. IT is a controversial question, but should...

Innovative glazing to achieve new Scottish Building Regulations

The introduction of new Building Scotland Regulations on 1st February 2023 has placed energy efficiency high on the agenda for construction professionals. The regulations,...

Is late living coming of age?

By Richard Goodfellow, partner, Burness Paull RETIREMENT living is a hot topic it seems. Not just with those eagerly looking forward to life after the...

Putting a price on nature is a good way to save it

By Neil Bancroft, associate at HarrisonStevens ASTLEY Ainslie Community Trust (AACT) will be going out to public consultation with its plans for this historic site...

Our oceans can power the world

By Darren O’Mahony, director, Causeway Geotech IN the midst of a global energy crisis, the escalating cost of living affects everyone. Recent events have exposed...

Help to close construction ‘capability gap’

By Ian Eker, director of Construction & Property for recruitment firm Hays in Scotland RECENT reports suggest that construction activity in Scotland continues to rise...

Commercial solar photovoltaic: transitioning from the carrot to the stick

By Dr James Crosby-Wrigley, head of sustainability for commercial and industrial energy supply and usage at Advantage Utilities Scotland has committed to becoming a more...

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...

New thinking will be required to buck the hard facts about Scotland’s housing market

By Eric Curran, managing partner at DM Hall RECENT media commentary from usually well-informed sources have raised the so far unresolved but familiar concerns...

When the roads fall silent, we can’t avoid the fact that it’s time for...

By Stuart Harrow, transportation director of Dougall Baillie Associates One of the first things which comes to the forefront of the public mind when a...

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...

How can adjudicators ensure they remain competent to adjudicate?

By Martin Burns, head of ADR research and development at RICS AS an Adjudicator Nominating Body (ANB) RICS has a duty to ensure its panel...

Creating youth-friendly opportunities in the construction sector

By Martin O’Donnell, health and safety advisor at Akela Group Today, exam results are unveiled in Scotland after over a year of disruption to education...
Josiah Lockhart

Stuck in the cold: why retrofit understanding matters for Scotland’s homeowners and tradespeople

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...
Façade access solution development must also be a long-term process

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...

Hybrid working genie is out the bottle – let’s make it grant everyone’s wish

By Shona Adam, associate director of Workplace Change at the Scottish Futures Trust It’s just over three years since the world of office-based work changed...

Will we see a rise in self builders?

In Austria, 80% of homes are self-built, whereas the number in the UK barely exceeds 10%. However, with the UK Government’s recent announcement that...

Partnership is key to asset management

By Andrew Kilpatrick, director of assets, Caledonia Housing Association As we embrace post-pandemic life, social landlords as well as focusing on building new homes are...
Michael Ross

Building a stronger Scotland through education

By Michael Ross, chief executive of hub South West Scotland In an ever-changing world, one constant remains - the power of education. It is the...

Apprenticeship experiences go beyond what I thought would be possible

To mark Scottish Apprenticeship Week, Tyler Buchan, graduate apprentice at Space Solutions, shares his insights into his current role I have been an apprentice project...