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Scotland Excel has just launched two multi-million pound frameworks that will support Scottish councils in delivering their essential construction and transport services.   The grounds and plant equipment framework has been awarded to 32 UK-based suppliers – 24 of which are Scottish

A wide range of businesses have secured a place on a major nine-figure framework that will enable the modernisation and improvement of Scotland’s public sector and social housing buildings. It follows a competitive process after the Scottish Procurement Alliance (SPA) invited businesses throug

The first project to proceed under a new fast track process has received a provisional £2 billion funding package to deliver a subsea energy superhighway which could connect up to two million homes to clean energy. The proposed Eastern Green Link 1 (EGL1) high voltage subsea cable would be abl

East Renfrewshire Council has drawn up proposals for a major roadworks programme which will use an additional investment of £3.5 million over the next financial year to improve the condition of local residential roads. Last year, the council committed a further £17.5m of capital investme

Plans to build a new four-storey hotel in the car park of the Canny Man's pub in Edinburgh have been given the green light. The proposals would see a 12-bedroom hotel built on Canaan Lane, behind the property on Morningside Road, as well as two ground-floor short-term let apartments.

Fife Council has terminated contracts with a major housebuilder to build 203 affordable homes after work across four sites failed to resume since December. First Endeavour LLP had been operating construction work on the sites in Lochore, Lumphinnans, Dunfermline and Kirkcaldy before work halted

Argyll and Bute Council has formally adopted a plan for the area that will help deliver new development, safeguard the outstanding environment, attract external investment and address barriers to economic growth. The Local Development Plan 2 (LDP2) replaces the 2015 plan and was prepared by the coun

Councillors have given the green light to almost 40 homes on the outskirts of Barrhead despite planners’ recommending the development should be refused. Briar Homes wants to develop land at Lyoncross Farm, off Aurs Road, promoting the “natural extension of Barrhead” and providing a

Planning permission to redevelop the former Debenhams store at the Thistles Centre in Stirling has been conditionally approved by the local authority. Developer Scoop AM has been granted planning permission to subdivide all three floors of the premises, which closed in 2021 after Debenhams went into

An insurance company has filed a lawsuit claiming a fraud scheme involving staged construction site accidents in New York. The lawsuit suggests that workers, along with some doctors and lawyers, have been fabricating falls to file workers’ compensation claims. These claims have sometimes

A group of affluent US homeowners in Salisbury, Massachusetts, spent $565,000 (around £443,000) to construct protective sand dunes near their properties, only for the barriers to be washed away within days by a severe storm. The residents had trucked in approximately 14,000 tonnes of sand

Two cats and a dog recently got unexpectedly involved in a construction project after they were let out of the house at an inopportune moment. The mischievous pets found their way into a patch of freshly poured concrete, leaving paw prints throughout and a stressed-out owner.

Highlands and Islands Airports Limited (HIAL) is to invest £9 million in new energy efficient Aeronautical Ground Lighting (AGL) systems at Kirkwall and Inverness airports. This is part of an ongoing programme to maintain airport infrastructure that will also bring environmental benefits.

The Scottish housing market has shown a strong increase in activity from both homebuyers and sellers for the second consecutive month in February, according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Residential Market Survey.

Balfour Beatty has hailed its "disciplined contract risk management" for helping the firm deliver increased revenue and profit from its earnings-based businesses last year. Announcing its full-year results for 2023, the contractor reported a 7% revenue increase to £9.6 billion (2022: £8.