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LAR Housing Trust has submitted plans to transform a fire damaged B-listed tenement building at Glasgow Green into 45 affordable flats. The roof of the former hotel at Greenhead Street, which was known as the Inn on the Green, was destroyed by fire in 2014.
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Housing charity LAR has welcomed a debate that highlights the need for more organisations to copy its loan-funding model to develop good quality affordable rented accommodation in Scotland. LAR was very interested to read ideas put forward by think tank Common Weal in Scottish Construction Now
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Balfour Beatty has reached an agreement for the conversion of its £375 million revolving credit facility (RCF) to the largest sustainability linked loan in the UK construction industry to date, extending the maturity to October 2024.
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Maxi Construction has been awarded a £2.5 million contract from Scottish Borders Council for the construction of Hawick Business Centre, a new three-storey business space hub for small businesses within Hawick town centre. The new 433m2 development will be constructed across three floors provi
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Work is to begin next year on the transformation of Arbroath’s historic courthouse into a community hub. Plans have been laid for essential repairs to the roof of the High Street building, eight years after the last sheriff court case was heard there.
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John Gilbert Architects has picked up the Glasgow Institute of Architects Sustainability Award 2022 on behalf of the Niddrie Road project team delivering a pioneering retrofit of a pre-1919 tenement. The Glasgow Institute of Architects (GIA) Design Awards celebrates the very best architecture being
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INCH Architecture has delivered a new multi-million-pound dedicated state-of-the-art campus for the University of West of Scotland (UWS) alongside Dumfries and Galloway College. The state-of-the-art development, co-located with Dumfries & Galloway College, has been designed with the specific int
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More than 100 new council homes have been approved as part of Edinburgh’s major regeneration of Fountainbridge. Formerly the site of the Fountain Brewery, the huge number of new homes for social rent will feature in a 49,000 square metre redevelopment overlooking the Union Canal.
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A construction and telecommunication company has been fined £550,000 after an employee fell from a stepladder and was impaled on metal piping. The company was also ordered to pay the deceased’s family £200,000 in compensation.
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The best housebuilders in Scotland have been announced in Scotland’s largest awards programme for new build housing. The Scottish Home Awards, sponsored by Ross & Liddell, welcomed over 600 guests in Glasgow last week to celebrate the achievements of the housing industry. The 16th annual a
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Another major milestone has been reached in the development of Scotland’s biggest placemaking project as work got underway to install five concrete beams each weighing more than 100 tonnes for the new dual-lane Winchburgh Rail Overbridge in West Lothian. One of the UK’s largest crawler c
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Threesixty Architecture has won a coveted British Council of Offices (BCO) national award in London for their new studio on Academy Street - a unique and contemporary development in the heart of Inverness. The project saw off strong competition from across the UK in the ‘under 1500m2 category.
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A major project to develop a new net zero distillery in Sutherland has secured up to £1.57 million from Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE). Struie Distillery is being developed by the Dornoch Distillery Company Limited (DDCL), founded in 2016 by brothers Simon and Philip Thompson.
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Keppie Design has unveiled the completed new clubhouse at Royal Dornoch Golf Club, marking a significant milestone in the history of both the Golf Club and Dornoch Town. With the Championship Course recently ranked No. 2 in the world by Golf Digest, the project has delivered a new clubhouse that not
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Vivere Extra Care Group has gained a ‘minded to approve’ planning consent for Edinburgh’s first fully integrated community of extra care homes. Located on the 2.2-acre Lansdowne House site on Coltbridge Terrace, the new community will provide 48 extra care homes, communal resi
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