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The final stretches of the long-awaited Aberdeen bypass are to be fully open by Christmas with the completion of work on the River Don Crossing – though the £745 million project bill is now more than £1 billion, members of a parliamentary committee were told today. A document submi

Structured House Group’s proposals to develop a block of student flats with a convenience store on behalf of Scotmid have been refused by Edinburgh councillors. A joint planning application submitted in the summer proposed the demolition of the existing Scotmid store at 236 Gorgie Road to be r

Provost Lorraine Cameron has taken part in a ‘Working Challenge’ at City Gate Construction. The Provost of Renfrewshire learned about the company which is based in Paisley as part of her on-going initiative to fundraise for charity.

Sustainable modular buildings manufacturer Carbon Dynamic has fallen into administration with the loss of 40 jobs. Carbon Dynamic, or CLDB Limited, specialised in the design and manufacture of bespoke timber modular buildings, designed to be low-energy, highly-insulated and constructed fro

Shares in Interserve more than halved this morning after the outsourcer revealed it was in negotiations with its lenders to deleverage its balance sheet. It emerged over the weekend that the company was holding talks with lenders over its £650 million debt pile.

Derek MacDonald, joint managing director, Newton Property, at the first electric vehicle charging point installed by Newton in Glasgow. Image credit Jamie Simpson Lettings company Newton Property has launched its national 2020 Green Energy Vision campaign helping Scotland embrace a more sustainable,

Two drainage product manufacturers have admitted to breaking competition law by taking part in a cartel, with a third currently under investigation by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). The competition watchdog said it has provisionally found that the three firms broke competition law by c

Clark Contracts has been appointed to Registers of Scotland’s small to medium works framework, which will operate over the next three years. The framework will see approximately £10 million of projects delivered within RoS’s Meadowbank House office in Edinburgh.

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This week tenants begin moving in to brand new Scottish Borders Housing Association (SBHA) homes in Galashiels, just in time for Christmas. Work has been completed on the new £1.8 million SBHA housing development at Rose Court in Langlee, which was handed over by Hart Builders and agents Eildo

Places for People has secured £250 million of new funding with the assistance of HSBC UK to help deliver its business plan. The bank said it entered into dialogue with Places for People about its future strategy and was impressed with the scale of its plans and ambition.

The Specialist Engineering Contractors’ Group Scotland has welcomed an announcement by the Scottish Government to consult on curbing the abuse of the retention system. Business minister Jamie Hepburn revealed that cash retentions in the construction industry will be among the issues consi

Construction of a new care home in Ayrshire is to begin in late January 2019 after a contract was awarded to Mactaggart & Mickel. Following a competitive tender, the firm’s contracts division signed a contract with care home provider Meallmore Ltd to build a 52-bed, two storey care home se

Aberdeen-based mechanical and electrical installation firm Richard Irvin has collapsed with the loss of more than 100 jobs across Scotland. A total of 93 of the 107 jobs lost are at in Aberdeen itself but there are also redundancies in Inverness, Dundee and Glasgow.

Discount supermarket Aldi has announced a further eight stores will open across Scotland this year bringing the total number north of the border to 93 by the end of 2019.