A number of significant build programmes such as care homes, community and leisure facilities and schools will go ahead in Aberdeenshire after the council approved a Capital Plan worth almost £1bn. The £952 million plan for 2015-30 will support job creation, support businesses and deliver improve
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An architect has come up with a solution for love-shy Japanese couples - complete with stripper pole and hot tubs. Rintaro Kikuchi has a simple explanation for why nearly half of the adults in Japan are now celibate and the country's birth rate is plummeting.
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Work has begun on a safe and wheelchair-friendly path the Wester Hailes Healthy Living Centre in the west of Edinburgh.
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Drivers on the Forth Road Bridge are reported to be slowing down to check out the construction of the new Queensferry Crossing.
John Morgan Morgan Sindall has completed a “disappointing” year with profits being hit by a small number of construction contracts despite a rise in annual sales to more than £2.2 billion.
Ken Gillespie Morrison Construction is hoping to reap the benefits from the recent downturn in the north-east oil and gas industry, the firm has said.
A new image shows the project's impact of historic Provost Skene House Aberdeen's Lord Provost George Adam has blocked a motion to discuss the city’s Marischal Square development at a full council meeting next month.
Cllr Philip Saxton with Jane Armstrong and Andy McClung from the Lochside Neighbourhood Group (right) and others celebrating the start of the work Work starts on 58 new council homes in South Ayrshire
Vaughan Hart By Vaughan Hart, managing director at Scottish Building Federation
The total amount of derelict and urban vacant land in Scotland decreased by 129 hectares or 1.2 per cent from the previous year to 10,874 hectares in 2014, according to newly released statistics. Figures revealed today by Scotland’s Chief Statistician found that the amount of land brought back int
A huge fall in site safety inspections is risking workers’ lives, construction union UCATT has warned. The union discovered that last year the number of inspections of construction sites in Scotland made by the Health and Safety Executive fell 30 per cent.
An Aberdeenshire business has been fined for serious safety failings after a man died when he fell more than five metres through a fragile roof. Latvian national Nikolajs Naumovs, 57, who arrived in Scotland only two weeks before his fatal fall, had been working on a roof at premises in College Boun


