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abrdn plc has submitted plans to convert empty office space in central Glasgow into student accommodation on behalf of The Nottinghamshire County Council Pension Fund.

Chartered building surveying firm Diamond & Company (Scotland) has bolstered its senior executive team with the appointment of Jim Kerr as its first director of building consultancy. A former director at Colliers International UK and co-founder of Kerr Baxter Associates, Mr Kerr joins from Sedgw

A ‘building within a ruin’ in North Ayrshire designed by Ann Nisbet Studio has been named today as the winner of the Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland Award by the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS). Cuddymoss is the first one-off house to win the RIAS Doolan Awar

Senior leaders at Persimmon Homes North Scotland stepped away from the boardroom and onto the building site as they spent the day alongside apprentices in Dundee, shining a spotlight on the next generation of construction professionals. Directors from the business joined apprentices at the company&r

Construction work on a new £300 million teaching and research campus for the University of Glasgow is to get underway this month. The Keystone Building is the fifth major building to be constructed through the University’s £1.3 billion Campus Development Programme. 

John McGuire, partner at Thomas & Adamson, writes that while embodied carbon is a big focus for designers and occupiers in both commercial and residential property and construction, legislation as it stands means it is costly and slow to get innovative designs and materials signed off.  Wit

A bomb that dated back to World War Two has been discovered and safely detonated at a building site in Northern Ireland. The munition was found at the Rivenwood housing development on Movilla Road in Newtownards, County Down, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said.

Detailed plans for a major teaching and research building at the University of Glasgow’s new Western campus have been submitted for approval.

A new state-of-the-art youth centre has opened its doors to the community, following an extensive £6 million project to transform a vacant 130-year-old church building in Perth city centre.

Plans for a three-storey residential roof extension to Campbell House in Glasgow have been granted full planning permission.

This year’s title of “Best Tall Building Worldwide” has been awarded to One Central Park, in Sydney,Australia.

Hologram headsets that will show construction workers virtual reality projections of completed building projects are being developed. They will allow staff working on site to have 3D reconstructions of blueprints flashed up in front of them.

A notorious pair of daredevils have taken a selfie balanced on a crane atop of the world’s second tallest building. Russian-Ukrainian thrill seeker Vitaly Raskalov and his friend Vadim Makhorov said they were inspired to climb the building because of positive feedback they received after scaling S

China is known for its replicas of famous sights, but one new creation has gone a step further by combining two landmarks into one building, the BBC has found. Half of the structure, located in the northern city of Shijiazhuang, is a copy of Beijing's Temple of Heaven, but the other half is the whit

Lego has released a set of kits that allows architecture lovers to build skylines of cities around the world, Deezen has reported. The first three sets to be launched are Venice, Berlin and New York City, with each of the cities' well-known buildings reconstructed in miniature brick form.