Study reveals positive findings for Glasgow housing market
NEW research has highlighted positive news about the long-term prospects of Glasgow's housing market.
Savills' Home Truths Research study on the Glasgow and west of Scotland...
Webinar will discuss the use of PBAs in construction
SCOTLAND Excel has announced it is teaming up with the Scottish Government, the Royal Bank of Scotland and Transport Scotland to deliver a free...
Aberdeen strikes strategic partnership with oil capital of Brazil
A memorandum of understanding (MoU) has been signed between Aberdeen and the Brazilian city of Macaé.
The three year partnership will see the governments of...
City of Edinburgh Council announces over 50 firms on major framework
THE City of Edinburgh Council has named more than 50 firms on a major new consultancy framework.
The announcement follows what the local authority said...
Cruden reports ‘robust’ financial results despite challenging conditions
THE Cruden Group has reported a 'robust' set of financial results, including a 21st consecutive year of profitable trading.
Turnover for the year to 31...
Roofing contractors ‘busier than ever’
THE vast majority (91%) of roofing contractors have reported being 'busy' or 'very busy' in a recent survey by roofing trade body, NFRC.
Despite there...
Savills appoints new director in Scotland
SAVILLS has added to its engineering and design consultancy team with the appointment of Nadeem Khan in Glasgow, who joins as a director in...
MSP urges electricians to have their say on regulation consultation
AN MSP at the forefront of calls for recognition of electrician as a regulated profession has urged people to add their voices to a...
Aberdeen on track for 2,000 new affordable homes
GOOD progress is being made on the programme to build 2,000 council or affordable homes in Aberdeen, the city's council has said.
More than 800...
Outlook improves for industrial sector but office and retail woes continue
DEMAND for office and retail property in Scotland continued to fall in the third quarter of the year but there are signs that the...
Plans approved for new sports and outdoor centre in Edinburgh
THE City of Edinburgh Council has approved plans to build a new sports and outdoor centre in the north of the city.
The Bangholm Sports...
Three year £120m transformation of Glasgow’s Queen Street Station enters final phase
THE redevelopment of Glasgow's Queen Street station has entered its final phase, Network Rail has announced.
October marks three years since Balfour Beatty began the...
Network Rail warn of criminal gangs ‘increasingly’ targeting infrastructure metal
NETWORK Rail has warned that organised criminal gangs are 'increasingly' targeting metal used in infrastructure.
Theft incidents from the rail management firm's North West &...
Pupils attend ‘magnificent’ new school building for first time
PUPILS attending Alness Academy have returned from the October break to their new £37.4 million school building.
The project, which commenced in 2018, was delivered...
Derbyshire firm opens first Scottish premises
A UK building and plumbing supply firm has opened its first Scottish base in North Lanarkshire.
M Markovitz Ltd, headquartered in Derbyshire, opened the new...
Construction firm launches private housebuilding division
THE JR Group has announced the launch of its new private home building division, called JR Homes.
With a land bank spanning the length and...
Housebuilder expands Edinburgh offering
HOUSEBUILDER David Wilson Homes has announced it is expanding its offering in Edinburgh with two new developments.
The brand new development at Cammo Meadows will...
Over eight million homes to be powered by offshore wind under new plans
THE Scottish Government has announced its ambition to increase offshore wind capacity to power more than eight million homes by 2030.
The measures in the...
University aims to develop system which removes pharmaceutical drugs from hospital wastewater
THE University of the Highlands and Islands is to explore how 'cutting-edge' technologies can be used to treat wastewater from hospitals and distilleries.
The educational...
School building has ‘significant’ and ‘high-risk’ backlog of maintenance issues
DUMFRIES and Galloway Council has released a report detailing the final elements of their Dumfries learning town programme (DLT).
Phase one of the programme was...
