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The Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary The private finance schemes used to fund Scotland’s roads, schools and hospitals are to be investigated by Audit Scotland and the Accounts Commission to evaluate whether projects offer public value for money.

BAM Construction has handed over Dunfermline Carnegie Library and Galleries to hub East Central Scotland and Fife Council. Located on Abbot Street within the town’s heritage quarter, the new museum joins two existing B-listed buildings, the existing Carnegie library and a former bank branch, and h

Housing association Your Housing Group is teaming up with a Chinese-state owned company to build 25,000 pre-fabricated homes over the next five years. The £2.5 billion joint venture, which also includes renewable energy specialist Welink, will see China National Building Material Company (CNBM) bui

Amended plans are to be submitted for Dundee’s £21 million Regional Performance Centre for Sport after Dundee Football Club announced it was to withdraw its interest in the planned scheme. The new centre was to have provided training facilities for the club as well as being a training and competi

Richard Threlfall Richard Threlfall from KPMG forecasts that 2017 will be a year of feast and famine for the UK construction industry.

The City of Edinburgh Council’s new Local Development Plan provides a clear framework to manage the capital's growth, says Councillor Ian Perry. Edinburgh is a hugely successful city which is expected to grow by about 10 per cent in the next decade.

A man in Germany has started the New Year with quite a shock - after finding himself bricked in to his own home. The home owner in Mainhausen, Hesse, opened his front door on Monday to find someone had quietly built a brick wall in front of it during the night, police confirmed.

Alan Brown MP Kilmarnock and Loudoun MP Alan Brown has won praise from small construction firms in Scotland and south of the Border for his stance on the issue of cash retentions in the industry.

National engineering specialist SES Engineering Services has secured a £5 million mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) contract on Edinburgh University’s £25m project to establish a world-leading Data Technology Institute. Working alongside main contractor McLaughlin and Harvey, SES will pr

A Chinese woman desperate to guard her property waved her soiled sanitary pad at the demolition team to stop them from bulldozing her home by force, the Daily Mail has reported. Her self-defence tactic apparently worked as the uniformed construction workers retreated from her house, as a social medi

Glasgow-based construction company CCG has hailed its performance as “creditable” amid restructuring and efficiency challenges at the firm. New accounts at Companies House show that profits for 2016 dropped to £1.8 million from £10.5m a year earlier as turnover at the company slid by 3.8 per c

The Specialist Engineering Contractors’ Group in Scotland has set four key procurement and project management priorities for 2017 to ensure the Scottish construction small firms remain productive, sustainable and efficient. PROJECT BANK ACCOUNTS (PBAS)

A new substance using the wonder material graphene has been developed which is 10 times stronger than steel but has just five per cent of its density, The Herald has reported. Graphene discovered by Nobel prize winning scientists at the University of Manchester is just an atom thick and is a two-dim

Construction output in Great Britain fell by 0.2 per cent in November 2016 compared with October 2016, largely due to a contraction in non-housing repair and maintenance, official statistics have shown. In the latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) construction output report, the three months S

A Scottish timber firm has warned that uncertainty triggered by the Brexit vote for the UK to leave the European Union may weigh on its business. James Walker (Leith), whose interests include supplying timber to housebuilders and property development, said it remains well positioned but cautious for