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Trustrees aim to raise new Aberdeen Art Gallery funds A new board of trustees has been unveiled to raise the remainder of what is required to complete work on a major refurbishment of Aberdeen Art Gallery.

Fugro has commenced ground investigations along a 45.8-kilometre section of the A9 road, under a £2.5million contract for Transport Scotland. The contract is for an advanced phase of ground investigation of the superficial deposits and bedrock along the A9, from Pass of Birnam to Glen Garry.

Planning consent has been granted for a brand new office development and multi-storey car park in Edinburgh’s city centre for Hermes Investment Management. Centrally located off Morrison Street in the heart of the Exchange district, the ‘Capital Square’ building will comprise 152,623 sq ft of

A glass platform which stretches 11 meters from the edge of a cliff and stands 208 meters from the ground has been completed in China. Set to open in Wulong National Geological Park in southwest China's Chongqing city, the transparent ledges stands 820 feet above ground, nearly 4,000 feet above sea

Plans have been submitted to flatten the site of a former Aberdeen city centre pub and build a 100-room hotel and office development. Archial Norr have submitted proposals on behalf of Status Properties for a 4/5 star hotel and spa on the site which housed the former Budz Bar as well as the current

Councillors are to consider proposals for a new £333 million Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre (AECC) after full plans were submitted by developers. Henry Boot Developments is to partner Aberdeen City Council on the public/private project at Bucksburn which includes a four-star hotel w

A public consultation on proposals to create a new £320 million harbour on the Aberdeen coast has been agreed following a meeting of city councillors. Aberdeen City Council’s communities, housing and infrastructure committee discussed the plans for Nigg Bay at their meeting yesterday which were f

Fife Council has announced it wants to dual the notorious A92 from Glenrothes to the Tay Road Bridge on safety grounds. The Courier reports that the authority views the ambitious proposal as a long-term aspiration and is dependent on both agreement and funding from the Scottish Government.

£900,000 sought to ‘future proof’ Buchanan Bus Station Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) will be asked to approve a spend of just over £906,000 to overhaul the heating and ventilation systems and fund additional repairs and alterations to the staff quarters at Buchanan Bus Station in

A unique gaming collaboration saw a group of schoolchildren use virtual TNT to ‘flatten’ a part of a Stockholm city centre district in the Minecraft world at the same time as contractors began construction work on the real site nearby. The project is the first time a property development has bee

Work on a new stadium for the Sacramento Kings in California is being monitored by drones. Drones are flown over the construction site once a week during off-hours and take videos that are converted into 3D images, which can then be compared to construction plans to highlight areas of structure that

NHS Grampian has unveiled plans to invest more than £150 million into building new facilities at its Foresterhill Campus in Aberdeen over the next five years. The health board took the first step in the formal process towards creating at least 10 new facilities on the site by lodging a pre-applicat

Work on the new £5 million Girvan and South Carrick leisure and community facility is to begin in January 2016 after planning permission was granted for the project. The new building – a partnership project between South Ayrshire Council and South Carrick Community Leisure (SCCL) – will be site

The number of new homes registered by local authorities in Scotland has increased by over 40 per cent over the previous year, according to new figures. The National House Building Council (NHBC) said that 3,543 new homes were registered between May and July this year, when compared to 2,492 homes du

The Scottish Government overrules local authorities more often than not when applicants take their planning permission appeals to ministers, according to new figures. Statistics compiled by the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe) have revealed that 77 of the 145 planning appeals so far th