Driving innovation and regeneration can help supercharge growth
By Martin Joyce, executive director of regeneration at Clyde Gateway
The economic outlook for Scotland and the wider UK appears to be improving, if only...
Built environment must sympathetically blend our surroundings to promote wellbeing
By Alasdair Rankin, MD, Aitken Turnbull Architects
WE know that our built environment matters, however very often we downplay its importance and treat environments as...
Female role models are key to shifting attitudes
To mark International Women’s Day on March 8, Paula Thompson, technical commercial manager at Fleming Timber Structures, told Project Scotland about the challenges faced...
Green homes will drive the reimagination of age-exclusive living
By Fraser Lynes, MD of Cruden Homes
WHEN it comes to finding the perfect home, everyone has their own list of essentials, whether that’s a...
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...
Diversity: it is a real agenda item
By Emma Marriott, a Construction Scotland Innovation Centre board member
Tokenistic. Tickbox. Lip Service. These are just a few of the words that are commonly...
Today’s school leavers can spearhead sector’s future
By Lauren Brown, project manager, Developing the Young Workforce West Lothian regional group
CAREERS in the construction industry still hold great interest for young people...
Let’s not let our high streets fall by the wayside
The UK Government recently announced plans to invest billions of pounds into infrastructure to help rebuild the economy. The decline of the British high...
Vertical growth is no tall order in Glasgow
Lotte Tobermann, associate director at GIA, discusses delivering tall buildings responsibly in Glasgow’s next skyline chapter
The City of Glasgow is on the cusp of...
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...
Visible discolouration of water from building sites can attract the attention of more than...
By Simon Knott, managing director of environmental consultancy Naturally Compliant.
BUILDING sites can be challenging places but contractors and other construction professionals have a duty...
Waste not, want not
By Phil Sutton, founder, Duraproducts
THIS year’s European Week for Waste Reduction (EWRR) takes place from 16-24 November and its campaign theme is ‘reduce, reuse,...
Plastic rainwater systems fall into place
By Paul Wadsworth, specification manager at Brett Martin
WITH wild weather in Scotland the new norm and likelihood of powerful storms no longer a rare...
National Women in Engineering Day – How to get more Scottish women into engineering
By Patricia Molina Benitez, graduate engineer at WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff
Gender diversity is an issue before we even reach employment; in fact, it’s already...
Knowledge sharing is key to cost-effective, low-carbon housing
By Mike Stevenson, senior manager strategic markets at NorDan UK
IN April, Homes for Scotland (HFS) called on the Scottish Government to ‘pause and review’...
Subsidence risk rises as Scotland’s weather wreaks havoc
David Hedley, commercial & infrastructure lead at ground engineering specialist Mainmark UK, warns that as weather remains erratic, the construction sector must stay alert...
More action needed over skill shortages
By Ross Mickel, Managing Director of Mactaggart & Mickel Timber Systems
IT’S no surprise to anyone in the construction industry that our trade is currently...
Failing to seek permission for home improvements can be a costly mistake
By Calum Allmond, an associate and head of architectural services at DM Hall
Scotland’s housing market continues to boom with prices reaching unprecedented levels,...
A power failure in Spain and a planning failure we can’t repeat in Scotland
By John Forster, chair and founder, Forster Group
Spain’s power grid failed this week. Portugal’s went down soon after. What could have been mistaken for...
Report has “significant” implications for industry
By Kathryn Moffett, lawyer and construction law specialist at CMS
THE Cole Report was published last month following a number of high profile construction defects...
