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An artist's impression of what the revamped Clyde Waterfront would look like Plans for two new bridges are to form the centrepiece of infrastructure projects to regenerate part of the Clyde waterfront and improve the area around Glasgow Airport.

Sarah Beale Sarah Beale on her appointment as CEO of CITB on a permanent basis.

A Danish construction worker escaped a building fire last week by climbing on a crane. The man was seen hanging on a winch as he was moved to safety.

Work has begun work on Inverclyde Council's new £9.2 million St Ninian's Primary School in Gourock. The CCG project is the latest to benefit from the council's £270m investment that will see every child in the region in a new or refurbished school by 2020.

Work on a new Dunoon Primary School is about to get under way after Argyll and Bute Council signed a contract with project partners hub North Scotland Ltd and Morrison Construction. The project will see a major refurbishment of the historic Victorian building as well as the building of a brand new w

A legal agreement which had delayed the construction of over 400 homes in Glenrothes has now been resolved, the Evening Telegraph has reported. Fife Council’s central area planning committee agreed in principle three years ago to allow construction of 420 homes and several industrial units at West

Newell McGuiness The campaigning trade body for Scotland's electrical sector has thrown its weight behind increased pressure from MPs over the vexed issue of cash retentions within the construction industry.

More than 1000 low cost rental homes could be built on derelict ground at Edinburgh’s Western Harbour if developer Forth Ports secures a £76 million loan from the Scottish Government, according to the Edinburgh Evening News. An initiative launched in April last year invited housebuilders to bid f

Troubled infrastructure firm Carillion has been selected to deliver facilities management services at hundreds of military sites across the north of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. With a core revenue value of £158 million over the initial contract period of five years, but with the opportu

Work on a £2 billion wind farm off the Fife coast will begin next year after the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) lost a long-running legal battle against the development. The Inner House of the Court of Session yesterday refused RSPB Scotland’s application to appeal the Court’s

Kier has awarded Spie UK an £8 million contract to carry out mechanical and electrical (M&E) works on a new secondary school campus in Kilmarnock. The new £45.3m William McIlvanney Campus is being built by Kier to accommodate the merger of Kilmarnock Academy, James Hamilton Academy, New Farm P

The inaugural RIAS/Saint-Gobain Emerging Architect Award recognises the crucial role architects play in delivering a better world and encourages the great architects of the future at the outset of their careers. This year, the award went to TAP Architecture, recognising two innovative and technicall

Wates has appointed McLaughlin & Harvey as a subcontractor to the Scape Major Works UK Framework. The Major Works UK Framework is designed to deliver construction projects between £10 million and £50m and the potential construction pipeline over the four-year duration of the framework is estim

A California construction worker became an everyday hero when he helped save a missing baby. Colin Blevin went to work at Ciarra Construction in San Jose when he encountered a car blocking the entranceway. He approached the driver, Raymond Randy Gutierrez, and noticed a baby in the back seat.

Following 24 days of over 50 events the 2017 Architecture Fringe finished for another year with the festival's Closing Lecture at the National Museum of Scotland. Industry provocateurs Sam Jacob, Beatrice Gallilee and Cath Slessor shared their forthright views on where the industry is at from their