Scaling up Passivhaus in Scotland
Lizzy Westmacott, associate director/regional head of sustainability at ECD Architects, shares lessons from Scottish Passivhaus social housing schemes
THE Scottish Government has just published the...
Breaking down stigma will improve the health of construction
To mark Mental Health Awareness Week 2021, Chris MacLeod, regional director for GRAHAM, discusses the importance of reducing awkwardness around the topic within the...
Adding colour to facades could be a bright idea
Colour is in vogue in lieu of recent research into colour psychology. Ben Warren, managing director at Baumit, provides five points to illustrate how...
Partnerships are the recipe for success at MIPIM
By Scott Wilson, executive director, development, Robertson
THERE are plenty of famous partnerships in business. The most high profile and the ones that everyone talks about...
A spotlight on Scottish construction
By Chris Bristow, a business debt expert at Real Business Rescue
THE Business Distress Index for Q2 2025 presents a bleak picture of the financial...
How Covid-19 has impacted the construction industry in Scotland and England differently
As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to impact industries of all disciplines across the globe, the construction sector in particular has faced a plethora of mixed messages with the...
Unlocking community engagement
By Julie Moulsdale, MD at Perceptive Communicators, which provides PR, social media, digital, marketing and public affairs support to clients in science, technology and...
Reducing waste the circular way this European Week for Waste Reduction
By Andy Leah, general manager of Duraproducts
AS we mark this year’s European Week for Waste Reduction, the message remains clear: waste prevention is not...
Is it time to modernise Modern Apprenticeships?
By Douglas Morrison, director of operations and skills, Construction Scotland Innovation Centre (CSIC)
ALMOST 40,000 people in Scotland took part in apprenticeship training in 2019/20,...
Time to start preparing for upcoming Employment Rights Bill
By Laura Morrison, managing practice development lawyer at Dentons
Employment Rights Bill overview
The UK government has introduced the much-anticipated Employment Rights Bill, which promises significant...
Highland residents face unfair additional energy costs
By Kirsty Morrison, interim CEO of Albyn Housing Society, an organisation that manages more than 3,700 properties in 70 communities across the Highlands.
As inflation...
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...
Construction contracts: NEC3 v SBCC
Any conversation between an experienced project manager and a specialist construction lawyer on the choice of contracts is likely to be a lively one...
Churches are part of our national treasure, but valuation presents a professional challenge
By Adam Jennings, a surveyor in the Glasgow North office of DM Hall Chartered Surveyors
SCOTLAND'S churches are part of a long and proud heritage....
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...
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...
Turfing out traditional roofs
In recent years, green roofs have become increasingly popular throughout the UK, with industry experts estimating that the number of ‘gardens in the sky’...
Can Scottish construction industry weather the gathering economic storm?
By Ryan Gilluley managing director of GCM Ltd, a Lanarkshire-based firm of cost consultants, claims and disputes experts for the construction and engineering sectors
In...
Reduced on and off-site carbon footprints are key to improved building sustainability
With more high-profile developers announcing their ambition to increase the number of net zero carbon projects in their building portfolio, Janice Johnson, sustainability manager...
Upskilling our existing workforce is key to getting apprentices ready for zero carbon
By Caitriona Jordan, head of retrofit programmes at Construction Scotland Innovation Centre (CSIC)
Scotland must reduce net greenhouse gas emissions, 40% of which come from...
