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Aberdeen City Council has launched a bid to buy around 100 plots of land as part of plans to alleviate congestion with a £26.4 million roads scheme. The local authority said it is today informing landowners of a compulsory purchase order (CPO) for the Berryden Corridor Improvement Project

Edward McAlpine is to take over as chairman at Sir Robert McAlpine as Gavin McAlpine prepares to step down after three years in the post. The change will see Edward move up from his executive partner position on the board with effect from January 1 next year, succeeding his cousin Gavin who will foc

Barclays began work today on a new state-of-the-art campus in Buchanan Wharf in Glasgow. Once completed, the campus will be able to accommodate up to 2,500 additional people, doubling Barclays’ current workforce in Scotland and making the bank one of Glasgow’s biggest commercial employer

Edinburgh-based developer New Land Assets has lodged a detailed planning application for a hotel and retail project near to the Borders Railway terminus in Tweedbank. The development at the corner of Tweedbank Drive and the main A6091 road would include a supermarket, coffee shop and petrol station

Property, construction and design consultancy McBains has announced a number of changes to its senior management structure. These changes to take immediate effect will see chief executive Michael Thirkettle take a non-executive senior advisory position and Clive Docwra, currently director with respo

The framework for the first homes in the initial phase at Maidenhill has been erected as homebuilders CALA Homes (West) and Taylor Wimpey West Scotland drive forward the brand new community in Newton Mearns. This milestone marks the completion of the initial works and access to Maidenhill, which has

Proposals to increase the availability of affordable homes in Girvan have been approved by South Ayrshire Council.

Workers renovating a building in Georgia made an unusual discovery when nearly 1,000 human teeth were found behind the walls of a building being renovated in downtown Valdosta. The building housed dentist offices for more than 100 years but it is unclear how or why the teeth ended up in the walls.

MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant: Water Babies UK Ltd

Key infrastructure projects across Scotland worth billions of pounds to the economy face cumulative delays of more than a decade, it has emerged. In an update on its major capital projects yesterday, the Scottish Government revealed that a dozen scrucial developments such as hospitals, roads, rail a

Consultancy and construction company Mace has appointed former Jaguar Land Rover senior executive Colin Harvey to lead its property consultancy business in the North of England and Scotland. Colin will hold responsibility at Mace for strategic and operational management of a property team of nearly

North Lanarkshire Council has included recently approved additional projects to provide more, modern and affordable new homes for the region’s residents into its next Strategic Housing Investment Plan (SHIP) which has now been submitted to the Scottish Government. The SHIP for 2019-20/2023-24

Plans for a major redevelopment of Aberdeen’s indoor market and former BHS store have been displayed for public consultation. Developer PATRIZIA said it is working on a planning application that will offer a long-term, sustainable solution for the site.

A further extension to the Brexit transition period would be “hugely unhelpful” to the construction and building services sectors, according to the president of the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA). Tim Hopkinson told the Association’s 2018 National Conference that

Scarlett Land and Development Ltd (SLD) has acquired two adjoining sites in central Edinburgh on London Road for private client Summix Capital Limited. The acquisitions end a successful first years’ trading for SLD, which amounted to a total of c. £78 million in deal value.