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How render colour defines a home’s identity

Colour plays a powerful and emotive role in shaping the built environment, far beyond mere decoration. The visual appeal of a building’s outer skin,...
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Building tomorrow: how planning can help tackle Scotland’s housing crisis

By Liz Hamilton, senior land and planning manager at AS Homes Scotland We’ve recently seen Scotland’s largest cities - Edinburgh and Glasgow - declare housing...

Engineering a greener world

By Gerard Carson, a senior engineer/team leader at Will Rudd Davidson, Glasgow CHOOSING what to study at university was one of the biggest decisions I...

We need to make the stars align for building zero carbon homes

As AIMCH, the flagship collaborative R&D project to develop, trial and scale up industrialised housing techniques ends, Stewart Dalgarno, its project director reflects on...
John Muir

Interest rate cut provides welcome boost for housebuilders

By John Muir, executive chairman of Muir Group IT is no surprise that the Bank of England’s decision to cut interest rates will have been...

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...

Scottish Apprenticeship Week ends, but the work must go on

By Michael Ross, chief executive of hub South West Scotland AS Scottish Apprenticeship Week 2023 comes to a close, our work in devising ways to...

From the runway to the rubble – building a dream career

Laura Brown, an assistant business development manager at Kier Regional Building talks about her career in the construction industry.

Façade 2.0: redefining our urban skylines

Over the past decade, the manufacturing industry has experienced unprecedented change. Advancements in technology, heightened awareness of the environmental impact of new builds, as...

Building accessible homes: turning the challenges into opportunities

Dougie Herd, joint MD at Campion Homes, discusses turning the challenges of building accessible homes into opportunities AS the joint managing director of Campion Homes,...

Securing the future of our industry

By Alan Burns, Divisions Manager for City Building There have been reports for some time of a skills gap in the construction industry where talents...

Mediation’s revival – what surveyors need to know

By Ysella Jago, DRS executive at RICS MEDIATION is making a bid for revival in Scotland, and if the attention it is receiving translates into the...

‘Folk literally won’t sleep at night if the Building Safety Bill doesn’t go further’

By Lesley McLeod, chief executive, The Association for Project Safety YOU'D think building safety would be a no-brainer. You design things carefully. Use quality materials....

Digging boom: critical need for asset searches

Richard Broome, MD at LSBUD, an online safe digging resource, discusses the surge in asset searches across the Covid-period and examines why the construction...

Why employee wellbeing is strongest retention tool within construction, building, and manufacturing industries

Victoria Brocklesby is COO and co-founder of aluminium doors and windows manufacturer Origin. Since the business was established, Origin revealed it has prioritised its...

The evolution of bathrooms

Bathrooms have evolved into stylish and welcoming spaces, and it’s remarkable to consider how far we’ve come from avocado suites and pink fluffy carpets....

Funding will support a construction innovation revolution – but we need industry’s help

By Stephen Good, chief executive, Construction Scotland Innovation Centre THE importance of the construction industry to the Scottish economy can be demonstrated with a few...

Brexit and bark beetle: what they mean for 2020 timber supply

Excess stock brought in ahead of the original Brexit deadline, uncertainty around the UK’s exit from the European Union, and challenges posed by bark...
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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,...

Building Scotland’s sustainable harbours

By Ramsay Muirhead, director of port infrastructure and planning at CMAL AS Scotland prepares to host COP26 later this year, a global agenda to...