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Volunteers in Londonderry are being asked to join a visiting group of artists in order to build a miniature city made of cardboard - replete with its own embassy, streets and unusual buildings -as part of an innovative celebration of creativity on May 23 and 24. The People’s Republic of Creativity

MIXED USE AND NON RESIDENTIAL Applicant: Dreamvale Properties Ltd.

Philip Hogg The Help to Buy (Scotland) scheme is nearly fully subscribed due to a bumper level of sales reservations, the Scottish Government has announced.

Ryan Patterson Wates Living Space has employed two young people from Inverclyde to work on site as part of its Scottish Housing Quality Standard (SHQS) refurbishment contract for River Clyde Homes.

New homes at Ullapool New council housing opens in Ullapool

A group of young apprentices are to play a key role in a state-of-the-art new school campus development in the Garnock Valley. The new £40 million joint school, community and leisure campus will serve the Garnock Valley’s three main towns - Kilbirnie, Beith and Dalry - and bring together pupils w

Noise from pile driving during offshore wind turbine construction could be damaging the hearing of harbour seals around the UK, researchers have found. Ecologists from the University of St Andrews said more research is needed on how noise affects marine mammals' hearing and into engineering solution

Bellway Homes has been ordered to pay nearly £50,000 after a bricklayer suffered back injuries in a three metre fall when a temporary platform collapsed. Bricklayer Daniel Kersey, 64, was injured on the Mitford Fields development in Reading on 5th August 2013. He was working on a platform over a st

Oberlanders Architects have submitted a planning application on behalf of Balfour Beatty for a new student residence in central Glasgow. The 520 bed facility on Kennedy Street will also include ground floor retail spaces and a student hub arranged around a landscaped courtyard.

Facilities management company Mitie has posted a steady rise in full-year revenues thanks it part to a string of new and extended Scottish contracts. Shares in the firm have increased by nearly four per cent after it lifted underlying operating profit by 0.9 per cent to £128.6 million. Sales have r

Plans for the refurbishment and redisplay of the Glasgow’s Burrell Collection have gained the support of £15 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). The award includes a grant of £1m to help Glasgow City Council take the £66m project to the next stage of the application process.

Soviet architecture owes its dimensions and originality not only to the talent of the architects, but also to the frequent and desperate inventiveness of its engineers and builders. Russia Beyond The Headlines looks back at some of the boldest decisions taken by Soviet engineers when faced with tric

MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant: Jewson

Alan Burns By Alan Burns, divisions manager for City Building

Traditional building skills have once again been selected to be showcased in Falkirk’s historic town centre next week as part of Scottish Apprenticeship Week. As with last year’s event, a free drop in event will be running at Falkirk Old and St Modan’s Churchyard off Falkirk High Street on Fri