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A potential buyer has emerged for the two Scottish plants of beleaguered metal company Tata Steel. According to reports, international firm Liberty House has declared an interest in buying the sites in Dalzell and Clydebridge after Tata announced its decision to shed 270 jobs the factories last year

Robertson Timber Engineering has won a series of contracts worth around £2.4 million for six under-construction schools. The company will provide timber frame solutions at Bilston Glen and Southdale School in Midlothian, Kilpatrick School in Dunbartonshire, St Margaret’s Primary School in Cowie,

A £100 million infrastructure redevelopment of Dundee's waterfront region is to be completed on budget and ahead of schedule, first minister Nicola Sturgeon revealed yesterday. The Central Waterfront infrastructure plan is part of the £1 billion transformation of the city's eight kilometre Waterfr

Construction work of a new bridge over the River Don restarted yesterday after the death of a worker. Ian Walker, 58, from Dundee died at the Third Don Crossing in the Danestone area of Aberdeen on Wednesday.

Council houses across Aberdeenshire are to receive an energy efficiency boost with the installation of solar panels. Councillors on policy & resources committee have agreed to issue a tender for works to install the panels on 1,200 council houses.

Glasgow-based Hunter Laing & Company has submitted an application with Argyll and Bute Council to build the first new distillery on Islay in a decade. The £8 million malt whisky distillery, to be built on a four-acre site at Ardnahoe near Port Askaig, on the North East coast of the island.

Each year the Ladder Association runs a photo competition to find the biggest Idiots on Ladders. The competition is run in conjunction with the Association's Ladder Exchange campaign where users are encouraged to replace broken or unsafe ladders for news ones at a discounted price.

Work has started on what will become Scotland’s largest and most energy efficient data centre development in Fife. Contractors moved onto site this week to begin demolishing parts of the former Tullis Russell paper mill in Glenrothes in preparation for the construction of a state-of-the-art Queens

Construction group Kier remains on course to deliver its full year expectations, winning more than £350 million of new business since mid-November 2015, the firm said today. A trading update ahead of the announcement of its interim results on 17 March revealed that the Group's underlying trading pe

Robertson has been appointed to lead the redevelopment of Raeburn Place, the iconic Edinburgh sports ground which hosted the world’s first international rugby match. The infrastructure group’s Robertson Central business was selected as principal contractor by Raeburn Place Foundation’s develop

The winning name of the new community leisure centre at Girvan Harbour was unveiled yesterday as construction work got underway on the new £6 million facility. The Quay Zone – which will be operated by South Carrick Community Leisure (SCCL) on behalf of South Ayrshire Council – will transform l

A construction worker in the United States might be the world's most reluctant new millionaire. Jose Sarabia went to buy a single lottery ticket at a gas station in Loving, New Mexico, but the clerk accidently printed two out.

Three companies have been fined a total of £90,000 after a worker was seriously injured when he fell nearly six metres from a platform with unguarded rails. Southwark Crown Court heard that on 4 March 2013 two workers accessed the top level of a unit which was to be dismantled as part of constructi

Scottish Construction Now attracted 30,544 unique visitors to its website in January – a record monthly figure for the site. It brings the number of people to have visited the site to over 221,000 since its launch in October 2014.

A slowdown in new business growth has resulted in the lowest rate of expansion of the construction buyers index since last April. The latest Markit/CIPS UK Construction PMI index dropped to 55 in January from 57.8 in December.