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A topping out ceremony has been held to mark a key milestone in the construction of the new £40 million Queensferry High School. Deputy First Minister and cabinet secretary for education and skills, John Swinney, yesterday visited and poured a final piece of concrete on the top floor, marking

The return of UK funds and Glasgow’s best year for offices in more than a decade saw levels of investment in Scottish commercial property outperform the five-year average, according to analysis from Knight Frank. More than £2.5 billion was invested in commercial property - including offi

Independent building and project consultancy Paragon has celebrated its successful first year in Edinburgh, having completed more than 2.2m sq ft of building surveys and almost £300m in insurance valuations over the past twelve months. The office opened on George Street in the Scottish capital

Dundee City Council lodged a planning application to build its first social housing development for several years. Submitted to planning officers by the council’s own architects, the proposal outlines plans to build 35 homes on land at Murrayfield Place, Murrayfield Drive, Whitfield Avenue and

The Scottish Government funded Community Links programme has awarded Glasgow City Council £300,000 for junction improvements in the Barras area, as part of a City Deal project to create a unique, vibrant destination immediately to the east of Glasgow Cross. Delivered in partnership with Sustra

MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant: Hallam Land Management Ltd 

A Mactaggart & Mickel site manager from Ayr has been named Supreme Award runner-up in the UK finals of NHBC Pride in the Job Awards. Stuart Gillespie scooped the runner-up title in the Medium Builder category for his exceptional management of the Greenan Views development in Ayr. Stuart has

Real estate company Savills has made two new senior appointments at the top of its Scottish business. Cameron Ewer has been promoted from head of Glasgow residential to lead the Scottish residential division and Hugo Struthers has moved up from head of rural professional services to lead Savills Sco

MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant: G1 Group PLC

Small and medium-sized (SME) firms in the Scottish construction sector are remaining stable in the face of continuing political uncertainty, according to a report by the Federation of Master Builders (FMB) Scotland. The FMB’s latest State of Trade Survey found that the pace of growth amon

A more selective approach to contract bidding has paid off for T Clarke as the building services contractor reported a profits jump and record order book. In a trading update today, the firm said underlying operating profit before interest and taxation of circa £8.6 million (2017: £7.3m)

MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant: Dandara Ltd

Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastructure has been announced as a headline supporter of Scotland’s first delegation to this year’s MIPIM international property investment festival in Cannes. Robertson Group and Henry Boot have also been named in the public-private delegation.

The classic building block game Jenga has a surprising new collaborator. French fashion house Louis Vuitton, known for its luxury logo-bedecked leather goods, is entering into the gaming arena and releasing its own version.

Housebuiler industry body Homes for Scotland has called for a “more meaningful and inclusive” approach to analysing the country’s planning performance. Director of planning Tammy Swift-Adams has questioned the focus of official planning performance statistics, the latest of which r