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MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant: Mr Abdullah Razzouk.

A construction and building materials group from Northern Ireland has set up a base in Aberdeen to manage a nearby roads contract. Northstone (NI) Limited has moved into Units 14 and 16 at the James Gregory Centre in Aberdeen Innovation Park.

Principal contracting specialist Linear Design & Construct (LDC) has been appointed to deliver a comprehensive fit-out of a travel centre for Lothian Buses. 49 Shandwick Place in Edinburgh is set to become the flagship customer experience and travel centre for the UK’s largest municip

The size and value of project management to the UK economy and society has been benchmarked for the first time in a major new report. Commissioned by the Association for Project Management (APM) and conducted by PwC UK, research has identified that project management in the UK generates around &poun

A religious order has been told to reinstate an historic castle folly that it partly demolished. The Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary had demolished almost the entire 19th century folly on the grounds of the former Bessborough Mother and Baby Home in Cork.

Thermal storage company Sunamp has named Martin Bloom as chairman as the East Lothian-based firm gears up for growth having closed its late seed round at just over £3 million. Succeeding founder chairman Bob Pettigrew, Martin helps build high growth technology and renewable energy companies, a

Argyll Community Housing Association (ACHA) has completed roof and roughcast improvements to its homes in Luss. The village, located at the gateway to the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park, is famous for the TV series Take The High Road and is one of the busiest visitor destinations in Arg

A ground breaking animation showing the journey in becoming a fully qualified electrician has been developed in partnership between SELECT and the Scottish Joint Industry Board (SJIB). The animation shows the journey from someone starting their career as an apprentice electrician right through to th

A court has ordered the owner of a €57m (£49m) chateau in the south of France to tear it down after declaring the building illegal, The Guardian has reported. Chateau Diter, eight miles north of Cannes, began life as an abandoned country house with snake-infested grounds, before it was tr

Six Glasgow architecture practices have tabled innovative proposals to rethink the design of terraced housing. Bigg Regeneration, the joint venture between Scottish Canals and Places for People Capital, and Igloo Regeneration have revealed the resulting plans for a low-carbon, customisable, timber-p

An Edinburgh-based youth homelessness prevention organisation has been chosen by Barratt East as its charity partner of the year as it sets out its corporate social responsibility programme for 2019. Through its mission to support young people in building a better future, The Rock Trust’s visi

PFI contracts should be taken over by the Treasury as part of radical changes to local government funding, according to a new report. A joint paper from Unison Scotland and the Jimmy Reid Foundation has called for a “fundamental review” of local government funding to examine new and alte

Scottish homeowners are the least likely in Britain to improve their property after the number of home improvement planning applications decreased last year. The ‘Home Improvers of Great Britain 2019’ report, compiled by construction industry analysts Barbour ABI, found that for every 10

Infrastructure secretary Michael Matheson has launched the latest update of the Scottish Government's infrastructure programme during a visit to the £70 million East Lothian Community Hospital project in Haddington. The annual progress report details the £1.4 billion of ne

The National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) and the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) have jointly acquired the most ambitious and splendid surviving portrait of a member of the Adam family, the great eighteenth-century Scottish architectural dynasty. The portrait of James Adam (1732-94) by the Ital