A new Community Interest Company (CIC) has been formed to address critical skills shortages in the Highlands and Islands. Highlands and Islands Skills, which will be branded Hi-skills, aims to ...

A new solar scheme is helping to provide thousands of homes in and around Greenock with clean fresh drinking water. The £482,000 project involved 480 solar panels being installed on top of a water ...

TAYLOR Wimpey West Scotland has been granted planning permission by East Renfrewshire Council to deliver 125 new homes that will form part of the Barrhead South Masterplan. The properties are in ...

CONSTRUCTION of the Inch Cape Offshore Wind Farm operations and maintenance (O&M) base has started at Montrose Port in Angus. Local contractor Pert Bruce Construction is building the O&M base office, ...

CRUDEN Homes has submitted a planning application for a 224-home development in Denny, Falkirk. The proposed site on Broad Street is located alongside the River Carron. Cruden said the 13.9-hectare ...

MORE than eight years after Grenfell and almost six months after the launch of Scotland’s Cladding Remediation Programme, hundreds of buildings across the country still pose a fire safety risk due to ...

BE-ST (Built Environment – Smarter Transformation) has officially relaunched its Innovation Campus by welcoming stakeholders to see the newly equipped Mass Timber Centre of Excellence and Scotland’s ...

CRUDEN Homes has secured planning permission for its first development in Fife for over a decade, bringing 39 new homes to the village of Pittenweem. Located on James Street, the development will ...

THE annual Highland Archaeology Festival Conference is to be held on September 27 and 28 at the Highland Council Chamber in Inverness. Organised by the Highland Council Historic Environment team, the ...

MORRIS & Spottiswood Group has received three RoSPA Awards in recognition of its commitment to health and safety. The RoSPA Awards are the world’s largest health and safety awards programme, ...

TENANTS across the Falkirk Council area have been promised quicker repairs thanks to a new approach by the local authority. From this month, new ‘bolt on skills’ have been introduced in its building ...

THE National Access and Scaffolding Confederation (NASC) has announced the creation of a new independent sector representative organisation (SRO). The organisation said that the launch of the CISRS ...