Window of opportunity: fenestration solutions for the student housing sector

Damp and dingy student digs are fortunately becoming a thing of the past as universities and property developers look to create student homes that...
‘The Avenue’ in Barnton, Edinburgh

Retirement housing could take pressure off a property market in crisis

By Hazel Davies, sales and marketing director of Cruden Homes AS the UK grapples with a housing market that’s increasingly stretched at both ends, one...
Image depicting new housebuilding in Scotland

Why building more homes isn’t enough, we need to build smarter

By Lynsey Jackson, sales manager at Cruden Homes AS Scotland continues to grapple with housing supply challenges, much of the conversation has rightly focused on...

Sharing data is key for industry efficiency

By Dermot Murray, VP of Ideation at Inoapps IN an information age where data is considered more valuable than oil, the Scottish construction industry needs...
Greig Fenton

Why PPM is critical to housing stock’s net zero journey

By Greig Fenton, regional director at Thomas & Adamson, part of Egis Group The journey to net zero can seem a large, ominous, and expensive...

Delivering modern homes that reflect rural setting

Page/Park's Jonathan Walsh, who was project architect on a new 23-unit housing project in Kirkintilloch, provides an overview of the initiative to deliver much-needed...

Scottish manufacturing – a mark of quality

By Jim Harley, operations manager at Bison Manufacturing’s Uddingston facility AS you may already know, the SNP held its Spring Conference in March of this...

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...
Lynsay Bell Manson, MD at Studio LBA

Designing viable masterplans without compromise

By Lynsay Bell Manson, MD at Studio LBA THE future of masterplanning in Scotland is undergoing a transformative shift, one that puts people, place and...

Engineering excellence to support Edinburgh’s ‘hotel boom’

By Stuart Fleming, director at Will Rudd, Edinburgh IN my role at Will Rudd, and having spent my whole career based in Edinburgh, I have...

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...

Navigating the Housing (Scotland) Bill and the future of build-to-rent

By John McGuire, director at Thomas and Adamson, part of Egis Group  SCOTLAND'S housing market is entering a pivotal phase as the 2025 Housing (Scotland)...

Introducing drones into construction

Most construction businesses have similar priorities — deliver high quality work to the client’s budget and deadline. Investing in technology can enable companies to...
Sarah Lewis

Come on Scotland! Keeping the Scottish Passivhaus equivalent policy on track

Sarah Lewis, research & policy director at the Passivhaus Trust, tells Project Scotland what, in her view, is good and what needs improving in...
Andrew Donaldson

Green shoots as housing set to be new government priority

By Andrew Donaldson, CEO, The Donaldson Group 'Get Britain building again'. The words we’ve been waiting for kicking off a positive opening speech from our...
Sarah-Alexander

What’s in a word?

Sarah Alexander, senior associate at Dentons, explores the issue of oral contracts within the construction industry IT is well known that parties can bind themselves...

BIM can boost your bottom line – interested now?

By Colin Hastie, BIM consultant, CSIC IF you’re a business leader in the construction sector, the chances are you’ve heard of BIM. You might even...
Joe Warren, Knight Frank

Time to prepare for biggest shake-up in Scottish EPCs for more than a decade

By Joe Warren, building consultancy partner at Knight Frank THERE are lots of legislative and regulatory difference between Scotland and the rest of the UK....
Implementing an integrated IT solution to support their core business processes helped Mactaggart & Mickel Homes considerably during the economic downturn and has left them stronger, leaner and well prepared for the upturn. Paul McAninch (above), Finance Director, explains.

Investing for the upturn

MACTAGGART & Mickel is a fourth generation family business and a top 50 UK house builder with developments throughout Central Scotland, with land interests...

Time has come to start valuing our natural capital

By Neil Bancroft, a senior landscape architect at HarrisonStevens ON Thursday we mark World Earth Day, the annual call-to-action to take whatever steps we can...