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The City of Edinburgh Council has granted planning permission for the National Galleries of Scotland’s new community space, conservation, research and art storage facility in the heart of Granton.

A new housing development with 163 homes allocated for affordable homes has been approved, subject to conditions, by councillors on the City of Edinburgh Council’s development management sub-committee.

Work started this week on a new outdoor community sports facility in Aberdeen. Local contractor Hunter Construction Limited was appointed as the main contractor last month for the Cruyff Court, which will be built in Tillydrone and is expected to be completed in Spring 2024.

Scottish Opera has revealed new plans to transform Glasgow’s Speirs Wharf area with a mixed-use development including student accommodation and rehearsal/performance and film facilities.

Rearo MD Graham Mercer considers the skills gap in the construction and manufacturing industries and suggests what needs to be done to ensure those sectors are properly resourced to fulfil future, large-scale infrastructure projects. The UK construction industry has long been a crucial driver o

Caltech Lifts has been named Best Dundee-based Family Business of the Year in The Courier Business Awards 2023 days after it celebrated its 45th birthday. The family firm, founded in Dundee in 1978 by engineer Howard Renwick and now run by his sons Andrew and Fraser, was named the best family Dundee

Affordable, scalable retrofit can be achieved in a way that gives financial power to communities and transforms them for the better according to Rufus Grantham, co-founder at not-for-profit community interest corporation Living Places. Writing ahead of BE-ST Fest, a two-day industry summit taking pl

Consulting civil, structural and conservation engineering practice Will Rudd Davidson has today announced the appointment of two new directors in its Edinburgh practice through the internal promotions of Alan Lamb and Even Sørgjerd. Both Alan and Even bring a great deal of in-depth knowledge

Knight Property Group has started on site with the next phase of speculative development at Langlands Commercial Park in East Kilbride.

The construction industry in the North East of Scotland came together in a grand celebration at Ardoe House last week as the 2023 Trades Awards recognised and celebrated individuals and businesses, with notable winners including Port of Aberdeen and Malcolm Allan of Malcolm Allan Housebuilders. The

Fit-out, housing and mechanical & electrical services (M&E) specialist Morris & Spottiswood has continued its strong growth, exceeding pre-Covid turnover and more than doubling profitability over the last year. Turnover for the last financial year (ending 31 December 2022) increased by 1

Legislation giving Scottish Ministers powers to assess and remediate buildings within scope with unsafe cladding, where consent of the owners cannot be provided, has been published.

Building, infrastructure, engineering and fit-out business Tilbury Douglas has been awarded the Braidhurst Industrial Estate Project by North Lanarkshire Council.

Pupils celebrated their first day at the new £23 million Greyhope School and Community Hub in Torry this week. Aberdeen City Council’s newest school replaces Walker Road School and has room for up to 434 primary pupils and 100 Early Learning and Nursery places.

You’d be hard-pressed to find a construction business in Scotland that isn’t harnessing technology in the modern age. From using trucks and tractors to transport materials to calling clients on smartphones, almost every aspect of modern construction incorporates some sort of tech. But,