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A planned £15 million upgrade of Glasgow's George Square has been put on hold, according to reports. In 2012, Glasgow City Council leader Gordon Matheson launched a design competition to give the historic heart of the city a new look.
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Prof Andy Dainty presenting Dr Dominic Ahiaga-Dagbui with the award A Robert Gordon University (RGU) lecturer has picked up the best Project Management paper award at an international conference on construction management.
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Morrison Construction Scotland employees (from left) Ashley Constance, Liam Corrins, Aimee Auld, Eddie Robertson, Craig Cunningham Morrison Construction is supporting the Scottish Government and Cancer Research UK’s #GetChecked campaign in a bid to highlight the importance of finding cancer early
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John Cassie Persimmon Homes has announced plans to launch a third Scottish division following sustained and ongoing success across the country.
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Orkney Islands Council has agreed to develop plans for a new care facility in Kirkwall to replace St Rognvald’s House. A project to extend and refurbish St Rognvald’s had been under development.
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Aberdeenshire Council has accepted a tender to complete a low-energy affordable housing development in Fraserburgh which temporarily stalled earlier this year. The council terminated its contracts with Dundee-based Muirfield (Contracts) Ltd after the company went into administration.
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Property developer Dandara has received 14 prizes in the UK round of the International Property Awards, with half of the plaudits going to its developments in the north-east of Scotland. Dandara’s residential communities, Hazelwood and Stoneywood in Aberdeen, each received three prizes at the awar
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Edinburgh’s new £850 million ‘Ribbon Hotel’ plan has been ridiculed as one of Scotland’s biggest flops. The List Magazine slammed the swirling design at the centre of proposals for the St James Quarter in its run-down of the year’s five worst people, places or things.
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A crowdfunding platform has sourced £843,100 from 308 investors in a block of flats in just ten minutes and 43 seconds. Punters took up the opportunity in Lincolnshire through crowdfunding site Property Partner.
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Painting and decorating students Ben Herne, Mauro Rosmaninho, and Jordan Charters with civil engineering associate degree student Wendy Ross Edinburgh College’s construction department raised the roof as students who have proved they are built of the right stuff were celebrated at the college’s
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Mike Petter, Considerate Constructor Scheme chairman and Gemma Nicoll, Robertson Group community development manager Robertson Group has earned Associate Membership status with the Considerate Constructors Scheme (CCS).
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ADP has opened a studio in Edinburgh to take advantage of growing confidence in Scotland after securing university commissions for Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt. With a strong track record across the commercial sectors the team is being led by director Graeme Feechan, who is also overseeing commercial p
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Further accolades for Twechar development Places for People has picked up another award for its innovative affordable housing development in the former mining community of Twechar, East Dunbartonshire.
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The urban regeneration of Laurieston, Glasgow, has been named Best Regeneration Project at the 2015 National Brick Awards. The awards are in their 39th year and celebrate excellence in design and construction using brick. They are the most well established and most widely respected of their kind in
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