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Travelodge is to speed up its development programme after profits leapt by almost a fifth in the first half. The budget chain, which is undergoing a £100 million modernisation, said earnings rose 19 per cent to £90.1 million in the six months to the end of July compared with a year earlier.
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SSE has unveiled plans to build a brand new £4 million visitor centre overlooking its Pitlochry dam. Free to visitors, the centre will use state of the art technology to showcase the role played by the engineers who brought hydro power to Scotland over 70 years ago. Visitors will also discover the
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A 400-metre-long pedestrian bridge described as the “world’s first crowdfunded public infrastructure project” has opened in Rotterdam. Named Luchtsingel, which means "air canal", the structure runs through a building and across roads and railways to connect three previously disconnected areas
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MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant: British Gas Trading Ltd
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A cyclist has voiced his anger after a bus stop was placed across a Glasgow bike lane, the BBC has reported. Architect and Glasgow Green Cycle Club member Michael Dougall tweeted his ire, saying he had been using the lane since it was completed last year.
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Breedon Aggregates has posted a near-doubling in its pre-tax profit for the first half of 2015 following improved sales of its aggregates, asphalt and ready-mixed concrete. The firm said today that its pre-tax profit for the six months to the end of June was £17.5 million, up from the £9.1m it pos
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Andrew Davies Wates Group has reached an agreement on a buyout deal for a number of Shepherd Group’s subsidiaries as well as a large number of contracts and strategic frameworks.
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Mike Putnam Skanska UK said the outlook for 2015 is “positive” despite having seen its first-half operating margins reduced for a third successive year.
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Muirfield's former HQ The Dundee headquarters of collapsed building firm Muirfield Contracts is to become a regional management base for major projects undertaken by Robertson Group.
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Paul Brewer The average house price in Scotland could exceed a quarter of a million pounds by the end of the decade, economists have predicted.
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On-site works have commenced for a £5.5 million office refurbishment scheme in the heart of Edinburgh. German property firm IVG Institutional Funds said refurbishment of 40 Torphichen Street will deliver 54,369 sq ft of Grade A open plan office space over six floors.
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Chris Chivers New Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) President Chris Chivers believes construction managers “make a difference to people they never meet”.
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A property developer who demolished an historic pub without permission has been ordered to rebuild it brick by brick. Wandsworth Council rejected an application by Udhyam Amin for retrospective planning permission for demolition of the Alchemist pub in St John’s Hill, Battersea.
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Jamie Tosh, Sarah Donn and Mark Toland, outside a showhome at Drumoak Bancon Group has completed the board of its homes business with the appointment of three new directors.
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