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(from left) Alastair MacGregor, ACHA chief executive, Gerald Cotton whose son is moving into St Oran’s Place, Mike Brown, ACHA’s chairman, John Finnie MSP, new resident Kelly MacColl with piper Angus MacColl and the Achaleven Primary School pupils ACHA completes first new Connel homes for rent s

Applications are now open for the 16th annual Vision in Business for the Environment of Scotland (VIBES) Awards and Scottish construction businesses are encouraged to apply for their chance to join the country’s environmental elite. The awards scheme recognises and rewards businesses that contribu

The Constructing Your Future bricklaying workshop Young people from around the Highlands had a taste of a career in construction at an event called Constructing Your Future held at the Black Isle showground on May 7.

A project to restore and transform Lews Castle in the Outer Hebrides has been thrown a multi-million-pound lifeline. Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) will provide £1.7 million and the local authority Comhairle nan Eilean Siar (CnES) will add £1.5m to complete the project.

Engineer teaching apprentices to use tube bending machine An extra £500,000 has been pledged to help attract a greater number of women and people from minority groups on to modern apprenticeship schemes.

Six sites are to be put up for sale after being were declared surplus to requirements by Clackmannanshire Council. The decision came as the local authority approved plans for the development of land in the local area over the next 20 years.

Boroughmuir High School The old Boroughmuir High School in Edinburgh is to be turned into major residential block with around 100 apartments after councillors decided to sell the site to Cala Homes.

Gordon Matheson A procurement strategy has been agreed upon to take forward Glasgow’s £1.13 billion City Deal, paving the way for work to proceed on 20 ‘major infrastructure projects’ across the city region over the next 20 years.

An Edinburgh builder who hacked into a 100-year-old protected “landmark” tree with a chainsaw and killing it in a fit of “frustration” after council chiefs refused to let him chop it down has avoided a massive fine. The Edinburgh Evening News reports that Robert Wilkie twice applied for plan

MIXED USE AND NON RESIDENTIAL Applicant: Grampian Housing Association Ltd, 74 Huntly Street, Aberdeen

A series of problem contracts has contributed to a £89.7 million pre-tax loss last year for Sir Robert McAlpine. Posted online at Companies House last week, the heavy loss for the year to October 2014 follows a slim £4.4m pre-tax profit the previous year.

Corrupt council officials were treated to dances and drinks in lap dancing bars, corporate football tickets and lavish meals by builders trying to seek valuable contracts, a court heard last week. Edinburgh Sheriff Court was told that former City of Edinburgh Council employees Charles Owenson and Ja

Administrators appointed to oversee the collapse of Dundee building company Muirfield Contracts have accused the firm’s owner of not giving a full picture of its financial position. Campbell Dallas made its comment about John Stodart after calculating Muirfield owed at least £6.9 million to sever

Livingston based Maxi Construction Ltd has continued its business plan of steady profitable growth as it revealed an increase of turnover in 2014. Figures for the year to September 30, 2014 found that turnover reached £11.37 million, up from £8.55m the previous year.

James Donaldson & Sons Ltd (JDS) has forged a new banking relationship with RBS to provide strategic funding services across the JDS Group. Under the agreement - which will benefit all four JDS Group companies (James Donaldson Timber Ltd; Donaldson Timber Engineering Ltd; MGM Timber (Scotland) L