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A company in Columbia has found a novel use for the husks discarded when coffee is roasted by turning them into building materials.

Plans to fill a Tollcross gap site with flats and ground floor commercial units have been drawn up and submitted to Glasgow City Council. Permission is being sought for a four-storey building at 1042 Tollcross Road.

Plans to convert the former Mariner Hotel in Aberdeen into housing have been pushed forward by councillors.

The outcomes of the prestigious 2020 SURF Awards for Best Practice in Community Regeneration were announced last night at a virtual celebratory presentation event streamed live via Vimeo. Having postponed the annual sit down dinner in the Grand Central Hotel in December, SURF delivered a virtual Awa

Planning permission has been granted for a hotel, offices and 350 homes at the former Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) site on Edinburgh's Dundas Street.

Hart Builders is to work with Midlothian Council to deliver 265 new homes in the region in support of the council’s Local Housing Strategy. A total of 49 of the new homes have already been completed and handed over to the local authority, despite the closure of construction sites for a si

Network Rail has appointed Mott MacDonald as the design contractor for the Edinburgh Waverley Masterplan.  The £900,000 contract, awarded by Network Rail on behalf of the Masterplan partners, will involve design work to assess and select the most appropriate options for the various elemen

Eleven workers on the Edinburgh St James Quarter site have reported positive test results for Covid-19, forcing a further 39 into self-isolation.

The City of Edinburgh Council has set a balanced £1 billion-plus budget for the next financial year with a raft of infrastructure projects to benefit from investment. 

Scottish Ministers have given the go-ahead for completing of the statutory procedures for the A96 Dualling Inverness to Nairn project.

Hardies Property & Construction Consultants is assisting Midlothian Council with its sustainability drive with Passivhaus and Net Zero Carbon goals following its appointment to deliver 20 construction projects with a combined construction value of £90 million. The firm is providing project

Work to build on Dundee’s world-class expertise in biomedical sciences is set to begin in earnest after the ‘Growing the Tay Cities Biomedical Cluster’ project was officially signed off by the Tay Cities Region Joint Committee today. The project will help the post-COVID-19 recovery

North east firm Nicol of Skene has been appointed as principal contractor by Doig & Smith on behalf of Aberdeen Harbour Board to carry out the installation of approximately 3km of new water mains, including all associated civils works as part of the ongoing Aberdeen Harbour Expansion P

Voigt Architects director Jonathan Reeve has released a new 3D animation for the firm's new Seaton Park Community Leisure Centre project in Arbroath. The proposal is for a new build modern leisure facility, constructed in an existing park. The facility will be the first building of its kind in Scotl

After nearly a year of practical support and proactive guidance for Scotland’s building sector, the Construction Industry Coronavirus Forum (CICV Forum) continues to attract new members, this week welcoming another three major organisations to its ranks.