Fife-based multi-disciplined contractor T&N Gilmartin (Contractors) Ltd has transferred its entire shareholding to an Employee Ownership Trust (EOT), making its workforce of approximately 90 staff part owners of the business
Scottish housing charity Lar Housing Trust has received commendation from a major City figure for its work in repurposing derelict buildings into affordable homes.
A major mixed-use development at Ocean Point in Leith has been granted planning consent, subject to conditions, by councillors on Edinburgh’s Development Management Sub-Committee.
In a bid to tackle “systemic” gender disparity within the architecture sector, Glasgow-based practice Threesixty Architecture has introduced six months full pay maternity and adoption leave.
Engineering and modular solutions provider Pier Solutions has acquired electrical engineering businesses V-TES and V-TES Renewables in a seven-figure deal.
Legislation giving Scottish Ministers powers to assess and remediate buildings which have unsafe cladding, where consent of the owners cannot be provided, has been unanimously approved in the Scottish Parliament.
A team of 14 industry-leading organisations have joined forces to encourage the Scottish Government to take urgent action to strategically tackle the country’s draughty homes challenge.
The first phase of expansion at Selkirk-based Oregon Timber Frame Limited is now underway, as part of a wider £24 million investment by Barratt Developments following its acquisition of the plant.