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£2m refurbishment commences at Glasgow’s Tay House The Tay House office building on Bath Street in Glasgow is to receive an extensive refurbishment to 50,000 sq ft of its office space.

Plans to transform the old Royal High School into a £75 million hotel have “overwhelming” support from the public, according to the largest polling exercise of its kind ever carried out in Scotland. A total of 5,000 people across 12 city wards were quizzed on the plans, the fourth such consulta

ISG has been awarded the initial phase of a multi-million pound development to expand facilities and create additional maturation capacity at the Bruichladdich Distillery on the Isle of Islay, in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides. The new Coultorsay maturation warehouse complex will be built at the award-

Power supplier SSE has won Ofgem backing to design less intrusive electricity pylons for mountainous areas following complaints that new grid lines through the Highlands are unsightly and harmful for the environment. The BBC reports that another Scots company has won £13 million funding in the same

Twenty new flats for elderly and disabled residents in Clydebank have been given the go ahead. The proposal to build two blocks of four-storey flats, which will be linked by a central glazed lobby, was granted planning permission on Wednesday.

Work has begun on the £4.29 million refurbishment of Kilmacolm Primary and Nursery School in Inverclyde. Designed by Elder and Cannon Architects and carried out by main contractor CBC Ltd, the project is the latest in Inverclyde Council’s unprecedented £270m Schools Estate programme delivering n

Developers are to invest around £200 million in a string of high-profile projects across Dumfries. The investment on the Crichton estate is being made by Jansons Property in partnership with the Crichton Trust and could create hundreds of jobs.

Further accolades for Twechar development Places for People has picked up another award for its innovative affordable housing development in the former mining community of Twechar, East Dunbartonshire.

North Ayrshire Council has completed the construction of a new sheltered housing complex in the heart of Irvine. Vennel Gardens is the first project in the council’s Sheltered Housing Reprovisioning Programme, which aims to improve and modernise existing complexes and bring them up to a standard t

A new briefing paper has detailed the significant contribution that sustainability standard BREEAM has given to the global carbon reduction in buildings. Published during global climate change conference COP21, the paper also gives details of how BREEAM has evolved since the standard was created 25

An expanding Scottish property firm is preparing to embark on a key project in the capital as it targets opportunities nationwide. West Coast Estates will transform a vacant commercial site on Craighall Road in Edinburgh to create a mixed use development comprising a neighbourhood supermarket, child

Scotland’s architecture will take centre stage during 2016, as Scots and visitors to Scotland join the most ambitious ever nationwide celebration of the built environment of a single country. Curated by the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS), the Festival of Architecture 2016 wil

Students move into Partick development Partick’s latest student housing development has opened its doors to tenants following completion of work on the Falconer Chester Hall designed build.

Planning officials have advised councillors to approve plans for 164 new homes in Perth. The Bellway Homes development will be situated on land to the west of Cherrybank Gardens and next to the Broxden services.

The Young Professionals in Construction (YPiC) networking group is to build on its hugely successful inaugural event with a second meeting, this time in Glasgow. The second YPiC Wednesday will be hosted in The Corinthian Club, on the 9th December from 6:30 pm till 8:30pm.