Lesley Grant

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...

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...
Heather Holbrook

How the Covid-19 pandemic has changed construction five years on

By Heather Holbrook, director at Thomas & Adamson, part of Egis Group It’s hard to believe that five years have passed since the start of...

Putting sustainability into practice with road bridges

Steve Duthie, associate director at Altrad RMD Kwikform, says the future of temporary works’ solutions for road bridge construction lies in sustainable products and...
Ash Sheikh

The changing face of homeownership: meeting the need of today’s buyers

By Ash Sheikh, sales and marketing director at Muir Homes February has shone a bright spotlight on home ownership. We saw the Bank of England...
Greig Fenton

How to turn PFI handover risk into a net zero opportunity

By Greig Fenton, regional director, Thomas & Adamson – part of Egis Group PRIVATE Finance Initiatives – or PFI, as the programme was better known...
Roddy Morrison

Aberdeen’s legacy buildings: the key to meeting modern sustainability demands

By Roddy Morrison, senior director, UK project management & building consultancy, at CBRE Scotland AS companies sharpen their focus on meeting net zero targets, the...

Eliminate unnecessary costs and deliver more for less

Kenny Telfer, chair of RICS Matrics Scotland, discusses the importance of collaborative value management IN a time of political and economic uncertainly in the UK...

I always had ‘Grand Designs’ on my career

By Robbie Hunter, site manager for Kier Regional Building Scotland LIKE many children I liked playing with Lego and creating my own buildings, but it...

West Lothian commercial property market ready to respond to hard knocks

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...

Now isn’t time to be complacent

By Akash Marwaha, managing director, Hays in Scotland AT Hays, we’re experiencing a serious disconnect between employers’ expectations and the current reality when recruiting for...
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Retrofitting report to play vital role in reaching Scotland’s net zero targets

Gavin Oxenham, group general manager at Procast Group, discusses the importance of the new ‘Retrofitting Roundtable Report’, and how the Hamilton-based principal contractor is...

Construction – it’s about more than bricks and mortar

By Emma Dickson, a member of the Construction Scotland Industry Leadership Group and chair of the Skills Working Group. MY desire to work in the construction...

The importance of micro-markets

Scotland’s property market has fragmented since the new millennium. Here, Queensberry Properties’ sales and marketing director, Hazel Davies explains the importance of why developers...

HSE Fee For Intervention: why it pays to be informed

By Vikki Watt, partner and solicitor advocate at BTO Solicitors LLP SINCE 2012, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has recovered costs from duty holders...
Graeme with pupils at Stoneyburn Primary School. Image credit: Robert Perry

Building blocks of change: inspiring young people into carpentry

By Graeme Binnie, a joinery lecturer at West Lothian College and founder of the West Lothian Woodworking Initiative WOMEN working in construction recently hit an...

A reflective end to a challenging year

The ongoing reverberations of the pandemic have made 2021 a unique year for the construction sector and residential property market. In this article, Queensberry...

History tells us why we must act on climate change

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

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,...

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...