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Global professional services consultancy WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff has won a new contract with NHS Orkney and Robertson Capital Projects on the £64 million new hospital and health care facility. The company’s Public Private Partnership (PPP) and Capital Investment services team has secured the r

Sanctuary Scotland has submitted revised plans to build affordable homes on the site of the former Craigbank housing estate in Nitshill, Glasgow. To be delivered by CCG and Mast Architects, the development will see the construction of 180 homes comprising a mix of affordable and private accommodatio

Six hundred new homes will be built in East Ayrshire and hundreds more improved in the next five years as East Ayrshire Council embarks on a £131 million programme of refreshing and renewing its housing stock. The new housing programme will be in addition to the council’s commitment of almost £5

Empty eyesore buildings on Aberdeen’s Powis Terrace which will form part of the route for the £26.4 million Berryden Corridor Improvement Scheme are to be demolished in the next few weeks. The former garage and associated properties at 78A and 86-90 are to be taken down as part of the Aberdeen Ci

Landscape architecture, urban design, planning and ecology consultancy LUC has been appointed by North Ayrshire Council to lead the regeneration of Irvine High Street. Building on recent regeneration projects in the town centre such as Bridgegate Public Realm, the refurbishment of Bridgegate House a

Unemployed people with disabilities are being helped into work through an innovative £900,000 programme which is being piloted in Scotland by Mitie and CITB. The ‘Think Differently’ initiative is designed to encourage employers to actively recruit candidates with autism, learning disabilities p

Work gets underway at the National Curling Academy in Stirling Raising the roof on Stirling curling centre

The Foreign Office came in for some stick on Twitter last night after tweeting about the new Queensferry Crossing... with an accompanying image of the Forth Bridge. This of course led to some ribbing from the Twitterati…..but not least as the bridge is being paid for by the Scottish Government and

RESIDENTIAL – TEN UNITS OR MORE Applicant: Mr George Duff

The BRIT Awards have today given a first look at the 2017 Zaha Hadid-designed award, one of the final commissions of the architect’s career. Dame Zaha Hadid started work on the project three months before she died in March.

Policies employed by Laing O’Rourke over the extent of union access being permitted to its £212 million Dumfries hospital project amount to “backdoor blacklisting” and “can’t be tolerated on a public sector project”, construction union UCATT has said. The two parties are at loggerheads

Wick Community Campus (pic from Ryder Architecture) A new £48.5 million community campus project in the Highlands has been further delayed.

The first ever comprehensive survey of Glasgow’s city centre office stock has revealed that there is less space on the market than previously thought. The report conducted by property agents Cushman & Wakefield shows that there is currently a total of 13.8 million sq ft of office space in the

Neil Collar Why do Ministers call-in planning cases? Does it make any difference to outcomes? Neil Collar from Brodies discusses.

NHS Grampian project director Jackie Bremner and Graham Construction regional director Gary Holmes shake on the deal - surrounded by senior colleagues from their organisations Graham Construction has been selected to develop two new health facilities for NHS Grampian within its Foresterhill Health C