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The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has kicked off a month long visit of building sites around the UK aimed at reducing ill health, death and injury in the industry. The initiative will see unannounced visits to sites where refurbishment projects or repair works are underway.

A historic Glasgow office block has been brought into the 21st century following a £1.9 million facelift. The Culzean Building has undergone major renovations which have included the introduction of air conditioning and the owners have now launched a search for new tenants.

The number of new homes in the UK has continued to increase on last year's high volumes, according to new figures released by the NHBC. A total of 137,500 new homes were registered across the UK for the rolling 12 months (Sept 2013 - August 2014).

Plans to create a new £5 million clubhouse at Donald Trump’s Aberdeenshire golf resort have been approved by Aberdeenshire Council.

Keepmoat’s regeneration team in Scotland has secured £23 million of contracts in the last quarter - its most successful period of tendering to date. The new business wins include work programmes aimed at improving the energy efficiency of social housing properties on behalf of councils in Renfrew

Glasgow City Council has today approved the next steps required to deliver the £250 million regeneration of the Sighthill area of the city which will see almost 800 new homes and a new school campus providing new sports and community facilities.

An Aberdeen modular cabin firm is supplying accommodation for the multi-million pound Forth Replacement Crossing construction project.

Major housing plans which could see 1,500 homes built along with a primary school on land to the west of Perth have been submitted by the Pilkington Trust. The proposed Almond Valley Village is set to take shape on a 160-acre site in the Ruthvenfield/Huntingtowerfield areas of the city,

BAM Properties has sold its commercial property development Connect110ns in the heart of Glasgow’s premier commercial and retail district to Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management (Deutsche AWM).

Scottish households could be better off by £151 million every year by installing a renewable heating system – but 51 per cent of Scottish adults think the technology is too expensive to install in their home. And while many Scots can correctly identify technologies such as biomass boilers (26 per

Decision times for local and major planning projects in Scotland are now the quickest since records began, according to new figures out today. The average decision time for a major development in quarter 1 of 2013/14 was 28.9 weeks, which is the quickest average decision time since average time repo

Sharp rises in housing, commercial and civil engineering activity ensured that output growth across the UK construction sector remained strong in September. However, while the overall performance of the construction sector was close to its strongest since the summer of 2007, latest data indicated th

Plans to build a £200m replacement for Dumfries Royal Infirmary have been officially unveiled by the consortium of Laing O’ Rourke, Ryder Architecture and Serco.

Building Scotland’s largest community-owned solar power park in Dundee would help tackle fuel poverty, reduce CO2 emissions and regenerate derelict and contaminated land, according to a speaker appearing at the University of Dundee next week. Helen Grayshan, lead officer from Solar Cities Scotland

CBES Ltd has been awarded Gold RoSPA award for the seventh consecutive year.