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Sandra Cassels, partner in the commercial litigation team at Morton Fraser, continues our four-part Construction Delay Series, which takes a closer look at legal issues surrounding construction delays. If your contract makes provision for an extension of time it should also set out the procedur

When retrofitting listed buildings, Thomas & Adamson director Hamish Paterson suggests that the main concern is finding the balance between modern sustainability goals and protecting history and heritage in our towns and cities. Decarbonisation of the built environment is a complex challenge, wi

Plans will be lodged next week for the second phase of housing at the Athletes’ Village, in Glasgow which could see a further 200 new homes built at the site, according to the Evening Times. A school and shops are also planned, with work due to start next year. Developer City Legacy intends to lod

Construction work on a £9 million development at Largo Road in St Andrews is due to begin next month. Crucible (St Andrews) Limited, the development company behind plans which will provide the town with an M&S Simply Food store and a 65-bedroom Premier Inn Hotel, has announced work is expected

Aldi wins permission for new store in Cowdenbeath Cowdenbeath has received a major jobs boost after planning permission was granted for a new supermarket in the town.

A West Yorkshire firm is selling what it claims to be the world's first zombie proof log cabin. Leeds-based Tiger Log Cabins is offering a 10 year anti-zombie guarantee with its ZFC-1, Zombie Fortification Cabin.

The widows of two of Scotland’s greatest 20th Century architects, Professors Andy MacMillan OBE and Isi Metzstein OBE, Angela and Dany, have been awarded Honorary Fellowships from the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS). The presentations were made during the annual RIAS Andrew Do

The well-known boss of a construction firm has died after falling ill while on holiday in Tenerife. Douglas Gilbert, 56, the boss of Riverside Construction, passed away suddenly while abroad with his wife Yvonne on the island on Tuesday.

Hearts were breaking across the world Monday after officials began removing locks loved-up couples had attached to a Paris bridge as a symbol of their eternal amour. For close to a decade, couples, mainly tourists, but Parisians too, had attached locks, often engraved with their initials, names, or

Utility works start ahead of new AWPR River Don Crossing A new River Don Crossing, part of the construction Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route/Balmedie-Tipperty scheme, is taking a major step forward with the dismantling of four nearby electricity towers.

A Dundee street was left without water and awash with mud, stones and debris at the weekend after a burst main caused a dramatic fountain to shoot several feet into the air following work carried out by Scottish Water. The burst water main, which residents described as a geyser, caused a “torrentâ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8S_gX9qkjM A huge building standing more than 387 foot tall has been dramatically demolished in Xi'an City in China’s northwest Shaanxi Province.

The world’s most expensive footballer Gareth Bale has commissioned the construction of a three-hole golf course in the garden of his Vale of Glamorgan home in Wales. The Real Madrid star is such a big fan of golf that he has planned for three holes from three separate courses to be replicated out

People working on the construction of a large asylum centre in Enschede were met with a gruesome sight on Wednesday morning. The severed heads of 12 pigs were scattered around the site sometime on Tuesday night. According to newspaper AD, nine of the pig heads were placed on the fence around the sit

A workman renovating an ancient residence received the fright of his life when he discovered a spooky-looking Ouija board hidden away behind a 100-year-old heating vent. Posting the image to a social networking site, Reddit user Falco Columbarius said: “Now I'm wondering where the planchette is hi