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With a more buoyant construction market, it is those firms continuing to invest in training that are best placed to help housing providers bring their homes up to modern standards. Billy Baird, Projects Director at roofing and cladding services provider Marley Contract Services, looks at how the company has managed to maintain its skills base. THE skills shortage is particularly acute in the construction industry and encompasses a wide range of disciplines from bricklaying through to plumbing. A lack of...

By Shahid Ali, planning and development partner at Ryden  GLASGOW has always been a city that evolves. From its industrial roots to its cultural renaissance,...

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...

By Paul Houghton, head of planning at DM Hall AS a town and country planner, I have spent the past few years, paradoxically, giving advice...

By Rick Ashton, bitumen division market development manager at TotalEnergies Marketing UK THE UK’s local road network, and the highways authorities responsible for them, face...

Andrew Leslie, associate – housebuilder, Gillespie Macandrew, discusses the importance of a well drafted Deed of Conditions for residential developments THOSE involved in the development...

By Amanda Cameron, a partner in the Dunfermline office of DM Hall Chartered Surveyors Scotland’s General Register of Sasines is the oldest national land register...

By Calum Allmond, a director and head of architectural and energy services at DM Hall Chartered Surveyors. SCOTTISH Government plans to reform Energy Performance Certificates...

Florinda Soldani, an Aberdeen-based senior associate in Dentons’ Dispute Resolution team, tells Project Scotland of the potential implications for the construction industry if changes...

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...

Ajay Nagah, engineering & major projects manager – ground shoring, at Altrad RMD Kwikform, explains how the use of historic data and digital virtual...

By Ross Taylor, partner, dispute resolution, Gillespie Macandrew THE Arbitration (Scotland) Act 2010 was introduced around 15 years ago, bringing with it a set of...

By Patrick MacKenzie, assistant site manager with Kier Regional Building Scotland I played a lot of sports as a child and like many boys, I...

By Lesley McLeod, chief executive, Association for Project Safety (APS) WHEN that ominous envelope from your energy retailer hits the mat, the bill seems...

By Ash Sheikh, sales and marketing director of Muir Homes Home working or a combination of work split between home and office is here to...

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...

Ross Taylor, founder of resolution specialists Taylor Law, explains why,  when it comes to cost effective ways of solving construction disputes, arbitration is not...

By Andrew Hill, lease advisory partner, Knight Frank Edinburgh We’re more than 20 weeks into lockdown and, if they haven’t already done so, many businesses...

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...

By Kim Worts, RICS UK External Affairs Director I had a conversation recently with a female RICS Fellow who applied to a well-established college to...