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Proposals to kick-start the regeneration of an historic part of Ayr town centre are now moving forward after plans were approved to develop new office accommodation at the Riverside Block. Ayr Renaissance recently submitted a masterplan for a mixed development between High Street and the River Ayr w

A £16 million project to build two new Dundee schools and community facilities could come a step closer next week should councillors approve a tender from Willmott Dixon Construction Ltd. The new build development in the Coldside area of the city will replace Our Lady’s RC and Rosebank primary sc

Scott Webb (UKSE) and Robert Stevenson (SB & AS) A management buyout has been completed at Wishaw-based asbestos removal firm Specialist Building & Asbestos Services Ltd (SB & AS).

Taylor Wimpey West Scotland has secured detailed planning consent from South Lanarkshire Council for 486 new homes in East Kilbride. The 61 acre site on land off Shields Road at Benthall Farm is allocated for housing in the South Lanarkshire Local Development Plan, and will allow Taylor Wimpey West

Scotland’s transition to the new Land & Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT) was “operationally successful” but it is “too early to draw any definitive conclusions” on its impact on the property market, MSPs on a Holyrood committee have said. A report by the Scottish Parliament’s finance

Ambitious targets to build a new generation of affordable homes to help meet existing needs have been agreed by South Ayrshire Council. The Strategic Housing Investment Plan (SHIP) paves the way for almost 600 new homes to be built in the next five years.

A new research hub will use the “green gold” of Scotland’s forests to support the construction of sustainable housing in the UK. Edinburgh Napier University will invest more than £3 million over the next decade in the facility, which will open in spring 2017.

Preferred bidder selected to operate AECC World-wide venue management company SMG was last week selected as the preferred bidder for the operator for the new Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre which is part of the £333 million site.

Helsinki will not follow Bilbao and Venice in hosting a Guggenheim museum after city councillors finally rejected proposals for a new building on the Finnish capital's waterfront for the third time. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation first raised the idea for the museum in 2011 but the project fac

MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant: Mr Steven Poliri

Matthew Goff Over the next 10 years, the UK’s construction industry could see a 25 per cent decline in available workforce. That represents uncharted territory, according to a report by Cast Consultancy’s CEO and founder, Mark Farmer. Commissioned by the Construction Leadership Council, the repo

Sandy Goldie (left) with Roddy Frew Sandy Goldie is celebrating clocking up an impressive 25 years with Ayrshire-based building services company James Frew.

Hart Builders, Dundee City Council, Hillcrest Housing Association, The Wise Group and Job Centre Plus join the eight candidates at the ‘end of course’ celebration event held at the Alexander Street development in Dundee’s Hilltown. The candidates are (from left to right): Thomas Malley, Jordan

The Trades Awards 2017 has launched today for its fifth year in succession. Sponsored by Stewart Milne Group, all disciplines are represented at what has now become the largest awards ceremony for the construction industry in the North-east.

The University of St Andrews’ strategic aim to become the UK’s first carbon neutral university for energy usage took a major step forward today when the biomass plant at the Eden Campus at Guardbridge was officially commissioned. The £25 million plant on the east side of the former paper mill s