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Architects Foster + Partners New York’s design for a modular habitat on Mars has been shortlisted amongst 30 finalists for NASA-organised 3D Printed Habitat Challenge.

Peveril Securities is on the verge of submitting plans for a mixed use scheme at Edinburgh’s Kings Stables Road.

Hannah Heaton, originally from Fife, has become the first ever recipient of ‘The Derek Mickel Architecture Scholarship’.

The latest graduate destination figures demonstrate that the labour market for building and architecture graduates is enjoying a vigorous recovery, despite being one of the sectors worst hit by the recession. Architecture and building graduates enjoyed higher than average employment rates with 85.1

As some of Scotland sees localised flooding, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) has launched a new interactive flood reporting tool in order to help communities across Scotland be flood-prepared. ‘Report–a-Flood’ (which can be viewed at: www.floodlinescotland.org.uk/report-a-flo

The UK Government should do more to help builders access a £525m loans scheme that it designed especially for them, says an industry expert at the UK200Group of independent chartered accountancy and legal firms. The Builders Finance Fund (BFF) was launched in April 2014 to support housing projects

Miller Developments Ltd and Craigrossie Properties Ltd have bought a former pigment manufacturing plant in Renfrewshire in a multi-million pound deal. Residential redevelopment plans for the 63-acre site will be submitted to the local council.

Eighty-six properties have been completed in the final phase of Sanctuary Scotland's £30 million regeneration of Shortroods, Paisley. The properties range from one-bedroom cottage flats to three-bedroom family houses. Fifty-six of the homes are now being rented by happy tenants.

Daredevil group at GAP raise over £5000 for CLIC Sargent

The £1.4m construction contract for a new Artists Centre at Peaton Hill, on the Rosneath Peninsula in Argyll and Bute has been awarded by Cove Park to Clark Contracts.

Scotland’s town planners are being given a run for their money by a group of students from West College Scotland who are taking on a challenge, called Place Matters -‘Images of Enterprise’, to come up with artistic interpretations of what an enterprising town should look like. One of the early

Johnstone Town Hall has been shortlisted as a Regional Finalist in the National Civic Trust Awards.

Revised plans for an education overhaul in Dumfries mean the costs of its first phase could rise by more than £21m. Nearly £45m was allocated to a learning hub, north west Dumfries campus and an upgrade of St Joseph's College.

Plans for a massive new student housing scheme in an Aberdeen community have been officially lodged. Property management company, Telereal Trillium, is aiming to build accommodation for 425 students at the former BT telephone engineering centre, situated at the city’s Froghall Terrace.

Scottish Borders Council has given the go-ahead for a £12m replacement for Langlee Primary in Galashiels. The three-storey school will have 14 classrooms, a nursery, an adjoining special needs centre and a sports hall.