McLaren Construction (Midlands and North) has been appointed to two of the four lots awarded to McLaren nationally on the £8bn Procure Partnerships Framework. Procure Partnerships Framework has operated a national contractor framework for the last four years across 11 regions,... View Article

Orbit, one of the UK’s foremost affordable housing groups, has published its progress against its Sustainability commitments in its 2022/23 Sustainability Report. The Report details how the social housing provider is working to meet people’s needs now, and in the... View Article

Avant Homes has continued to lay the foundations of future growth by moving from its Stirling office and establishing two new offices located in Edinburgh and Glasgow. The new Avant East Scotland business is based at Edinburgh Park, South Gyle, with... View Article

Work on a two-storey collaborative and integrated learning space at New College Durham is now complete. Named T.H.E. Hub (Technical and Higher Education Hub), the extension will provide the college with a specialist building to deliver higher and technical level... View Article

Located in Yuhang District of Hangzhou, Cainiao Headquarters consists of a 5-storey office building complemented with a plenitude of communal spaces. Aedas Global design principal Cary Lau and executive director Henry Chau have shaped the headquarters to a collaborative hub... View Article

Aitken Turnbull, one of Scotland’s oldest architectural practices with studios in Edinburgh, Galashiels and Dumfries has made two senior promotions and hired seven new studio staff as the award-winning firm further strengthens its teams across its sites. The changes are... View Article

Kier Property has secured committee planning consent for its proposed residential scheme in Egham (with resolution to grant, subject to the section 106 agreement). Kier purchased the existing office building in February 2021 along with the adjacent car parking from... View Article

Orbit has appointed a new Better Days manager to oversee the free services it offers to all customers to help maintain their tenancies and personal wellbeing. Helen Gleadell will be responsible for driving engagement with Orbit’s Better Days programme which currently... View Article

Award-winning housebuilder The Hill Group has promoted Dan Haines to Land Director to oversee the company’s residential land portfolio and further enhance the company’s regional expansion and ambitious growth plans. With 20 years of real estate experience, Dan joined Hill... View Article

Planning permission has been granted for a new community campus in Faifley, West Dunbartonshire that will bring together two primary schools, a nursery and ASN provision with a host of community facilities, including a library. Designed to meet industry-leading Passivhaus... View Article

With the introduction of new legislation rocking the rental market, economic uncertainty with the cost of living crisis, and 14 consecutive interest rate rises, there seems to be little choice for some private buy-to-let landlords in choosing to sell up.... View Article

A House of Lords report has found a “real risk that the Government will miss both its housing targets and its environmental ambitions,” thanks to its “haphazard implementation of environmental regulations” in housebuilding. The report, ‘The impact of environmental regulations... View Article