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Services are being held again at Aberdeen Crematorium after a major refurbishment.

Balfour Beatty has forecasted that its performance for the year will be above previous expectations as a result of an additional infrastructure investments sale in December. The construction group, which has been delivering the Aberdeen bypass in a joint venture with Galliford Try, said today that t

Planning partner Sarah Baillie contrasts the lack of ambition within Scotland’s Planning Bill to the bold, inspirational, collaborative and game-changing Connecting Glasgow Report issued recently by Glasgow City Council. Since 2014, conversations in the development and property sector have cen

Ceremonies to formally celebrate the start of building work for two major health facilities at Foresterhill Health Campus in Aberdeen were held yesterday. The £163.7 million Baird and ANCHOR Project is the largest project to be procured through the Health Facilities Scotland Framework to date.

Chartered surveying firm DM Hall has reached agreement with Livingston-based JA Pollock Property Consultants to merge the business into its Scotland-wide operations. The move will see company director Graeme Pollock join DM Hall as the commercial agency director running the East of Scotland agency o

The boss of a sustainable building materials company who won an auction for the right to name a newly discovered species of amphibian has named the blind creature after Donald Trump in recognition of the US president’s climate change denial. Paying $25,000 (£19,800) in the auction, Envir

Interserve has merged its Citizens Services division with its Support Services division in a move which will see a managing director depart at the end of the month. Citizens Services, which embraces justice, Interserve Learning and Employment and Interserve Healthcare, has merged with Support Servic

Glasgow engineering company Walker MacLeod has appointed a provisional liquidator with 46 employees being made redundant as a result. The firm’s management said they have taken the difficult decision having recently experienced a downturn in trading.

Cumbernauld-based interior glass solutions supplier Indeglas has completed its work at the University of Edinburgh’s iconic new building The Bayes Centre. The facility, which forms the final phase of the University’s state-of-the-art Potterrow development, is the latest of a clutch of co

Partnership homes developer Lovell has appointed David Ward as its managing director for the North. David takes up the newly-created director position with Lovell, part of Morgan Sindall Group, after a nearly 31-year career with Keepmoat Group where he held a series of senior roles and was most rece

The ongoing threat of poor and potentially dangerous electrical work has been highlighted once again by the industry body for Scotland's electrical sector professionals after counterfeit copies of vital wiring regulations became available for sale. SELECT said the bogus PDF copies of BS7671:2018, th

The Home Office has awarded asylum accommodation contracts worth up to £1 billion to Mears Group. The new Asylum Accommodation and Support Services Contracts (AASCs) are replacing the current COMPASS contracts, which were awarded back in 2012.

Plans have been lodged to redevelop a disused garage and warehouse in Edinburgh to create 49 new homes. The proposals, designed by Covell Mathews Architects, will entail the demolition of buildings situated at the junction of Constitution Street and John’s Lane.

Two adjoining sections of the A9 Dualling programme are the location for further ground investigations starting on January 15.

Scottish electrotechnical industry trade body SELECT is emphasising its message with a hard-hitting week of nationwide advertising. On January 24, minister for business, fair work and skills Jamie Hepburn will be hosting a Working Group to further discuss the issue of introducing Protection of Title