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George Osborne Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has announced new plans to automatically grant planning permission for housing on many brownfield sites in England.

Dozens of small and medium companies have joined Galliford Try, Lanes Group, Coffey and Morgan Sindall among the firms which will deliver Scottish Water’s £3.5 billion rural contracts framework. The businesses will be able to bid for work or be selected by larger contractors for a range of constr

The progress of Scotland’s most exciting construction project is to be streamed live over the internet.

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Team Saltire members Ross Anderson, Dale Mason, Eugene Atiso and Graham Allen Students from Glasgow Caledonian University have won the second annual Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) Global Student Challenge competition.

Andrew Milne Edinburgh's tenements are a vital part of a vibrant city. Andrew Milne asks isn't it time we started looking after them?

Skanska UK has received a funding award worth more than £700,000 to develop the use of robots for on-site and off-site construction. The award came from the UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK, and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), as part of their collaborative R&am

Argyll and Bute Council has said its £2.83 million structural repair and refurbishment of Dunoon’s iconic Victorian-era wooden pier is reaping the social, economic and environmental benefits the use of local sub-contractors and work placements. Work to the buildings is expected to be complete by

Fife Council has signalled its support for a £500 million plan to regenerate Rosyth’s waterfront. First unveiled in November last year by site owners the Scarborough Muir Group (SMG), the development would cover 120 acres and include five zones in the shadow of the Forth bridges. These would inco

The leader of North Lanarkshire Council has been reported to a watchdog for not declaring his friendship with executives at a company at the heart of a multi-million-pound council housing repairs deal. According to The Herald, Mears Scotland secured substantial concessions in its housing repairs con

Builders have been allegedly caught out working without the right planning permission after residents sent up a spy drone. The Telegraph reports that builders were captured working to modify parts of a previous scheme to develop 143 luxury homes before being granted planning permission.

Work on an “innovative” £24 million replacement for an ageing Anstruther school will begin as soon as possible after planning consent was agreed by Fife Council. Pupils are due to move into the new three-storey Waid Academy in March 2017.

Construction of a new Madras College in St Andrews has been delayed until next year at the earliest after an appeal to the Court of Session. A petition raised by St Andrews Environmental Protection Association Limited (Stepal), which questioned the legality of the decision to grant permission for th

Experts from the Welsh School of Architecture have designed and built the UK's first purpose-built, low-cost energy smart house, capable of exporting more energy to the national electricity grid than it uses. The house, designed by Professor Phil Jones and his team based at the Welsh School of Archi

Aggregate Industries has expanded into the UK cement market by taking ownership of Lafarge’s UK cement plants following the merger between Lafarge and Holcim. The plants in Cookstown, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland and Cauldon, Staffordshire now part of the portfolio of operations at Aggregate In