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Two North East building companies are to combine this week when Alpha Projects (Scotland) Ltd are joined by MCK Construction. The merger is the latest in a series of successes for Alpha Projects, which recently announced a multi-million-pound turnover after just three and half years of trading.

The Scottish home building sector’s top honours for this year have been revealed, with Barratt and David Wilson Homes awarded Home Builder of the Year and Wheatley Group awarded RSL of the Year by trade body Homes for Scotland (HFS). Announced virtually for the first time, with the programme f

Edinburgh-based all-trades building & home improvements company Custom Build Solutions Ltd (CBS) has been acquired by Terry Healy Group Ltd (THG).

A home building industry-led mortgage scheme that allows new build buyers to purchase with a 5% deposit has been launched nationally with 17 major builders after a successful regional pilot.

The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) has released a special report into diversity and inclusion within the construction sector along with a charter which building firms are being encouraged to sign. 

A donation of building materials has allowed an East Lothian rugby club to build a new storage facility to aid its current growth plans. Musselburgh Rugby Football Club (RFC) has completed the build of a three-room storage unit following a donation of quality building materials from housing develope

Common sense suggests that building houses in factories and screwing them together on site is the most efficient way of creating homes. But generally, that’s not the way we do it. So we brought two pioneers of modular construction together to explain it all on our sister publication's Sco

The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) is inviting nominations for its CIOB in Scotland Awards event for 2022, set to be its first annual awards event north of the border.

A traditional building skills demonstration has been delivered for young people at Jedburgh Grammar Campus, one of the final elements of the five-year Jedburgh Conservation Area Regeneration Scheme (CARS) programme.

A Perthshire building company was named the best contractor in Scotland at a gala evening in London last week hosted by Cathy Newman from Channel 4 News. Stephen Gardiner Construction, based in Auchterarder, was named Scottish Building Contractor of the Year at the Construction Awards of Excellence.

Thousands of pounds worth of stolen building equipment, including a 20ft car transporter and 2,000 pieces of scaffolding, has been recovered, thanks to an appeal in a local newspaper. Dundee builder Stephen Mellor requested information in The Courier about his equipment, stolen from his premises two

The architect behind London's controversial Walkie Talkie building has unveiled plans to convert an ageing shopping centre in California's Silicon Valley into a $3 billion development featuring the world's largest roof garden. Architect Rafael Viñoly will work with OLIN Landscape Architects and the

Did you know that the most expensive building in the world is the Abraj Al Bait in Saudi Arabia, costing a staggering $15 billion USD? Or that the second and third most expensive structures are in Singapore? An infographic created by Cliona Moynihan from Irish architecture practice Cantrell & Cr

A Frenchman is hoping to revolutionise the building and services trade after inventing special underwear that caters for the infamous "builder's bum". Builder's crack, plumber's bum, the coinslot, bottom cleavage...

Researchers have crowned the mound building termite the “top engineer of the natural world”, as a new study demonstrates the supremacy of their building techniques, and reveals they possess remarkable engineering skills. Scientists have already shown that termites build their mounds in a unique