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Kilmac civil engineering managing director Athole McDonald has donated a chess table and intricate pieces handcrafted from old Porsche parts by an old school friend to YMCA Tayside in Perth city centre.
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Glasgow City Region’s £1.13 billion City Deal continues to make significant progress since it started in 2014 with more than £495 million spent to date on infrastructure improvements and business and employment programmes, a new report published today has revealed. The latest Perfo
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Tom Barclay Tom Barclay, co-chair of the Joint Housing Policy and Delivery Group reflects on 2015 and looks ahead to the next 12 months.
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The Scottish Government could save about £12 billion by buying out public private contracts for a range of schools and hospital projects, according to Unison. The trade union, which represents public sector workers, has called on all political parties to support councils to buy back the contracts,
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North Lanarkshire park's iron-age history comes to life in new play area A spectacular iron-age crannog will be the centrepiece of a new play facility being installed at Drumpellier Country Park.
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The Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary was delivered using private finance Two of Scotland’s most renowned economists have called for an urgent and independent root and branch review of the quango responsible for the country’s privately financed infrastructure projects.
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The Scottish Government needs to be clearer about the role of private finance in public infrastructure projects, according to public sector watchdogs after a new report found schools, hospitals, roads and other assets will cost the public sector more than four times their capital value. Models for i
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London & Scottish Property Investment Management (LSPIM) has acquired the 11-acre industrial site occupied by Howden engineering in Braehead for £7.1 million.
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A £40 million investment in new community hospitals for Badenoch and Strathspey, and on Skye, which is being delivered by hub North Scotland on behalf of NHS Highland, has reached a landmark. The Badenoch and Strathspey Community Hospital in Aviemore has been handed over and is the first new h
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Education fit-out specialist Deanestor is to provide around 6,000 items of loose and fitted furniture for a primary school and community hub now under construction in Aberdeen. The new project is the 16th contract awarded to the Dunfermline-based firm by Morrison Construction.
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New ‘Help to Buy’ homes taking shape at former Edinburgh school Progress is well under way with the first new homes now on site at a new housing development in Niddrie, Edinburgh.
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George Carty Bellway Site managers land Pride In The Job Awards
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Work starts on Paisley care home and veterans’ centre CCG has commenced work on a £12 million contract for charities Royal Blind and Scottish War Blinded to deliver a new 54-bed care home and an activity and support centre for visually impaired veterans, which are being built on the site of a for
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After First Minister Nicola Sturgeon set out the Scottish Government’s Programme for Government to MSPs at Holyrood yesterday, Scottish Construction Now highlights the details and responses of interest to construction and the wider sector. Infrastructure investment
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