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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.

A demolition firm has been fined £5,000 after a worker fell from a scaffolding platform in Glasgow and suffered severe injuries. DSR Demolition Limited pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 6(3) of the Work at Height Regulations 2005 and Section 33(1)(c) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.

The development of a new £39 million Community Campus in Forfar reached an important milestone on Wednesday after contractor Robertson Tayside ‘topped out’ the building. Celebrating the completion of the highest point of the structure, construction will now focus on making the building wind and

Lovell wins top industry award for health and safety Housing developer and regeneration specialist Lovell has scooped a top industry award for its outstanding health and safety approach.

Councillors are set to agree to expand the first stages of project development for an extension to the Edinburgh tram network, should it go ahead. A £3.25 million package of work will be put to elected members, building on the first stage of project development included in the Outline Business Case

The Forth Road Bridge (FRB) is to shut until the New Year for repairs following the discovery of defective steelwork. The decision to close has been taken after inspections carried out by specialist engineers and following advice and assessment of the fault by independent experts.

Edinburgh’s Mortonhall Memorial Garden opens The Mortonhall Memorial Garden has opened in Edinburgh following a series of consultation events held earlier in the year with parents affected by practices relating to the cremation of babies at the Mortonhall Crematorium.

Flexible rural planning policies must be ensured in any future changes to Scotland’s planning system, the country’s landowners have said. Scottish Land & Estates made the request in evidence submitted to the Scottish Government’s independent panel appointed to review the planning system.

The urban regeneration of Laurieston, Glasgow, has been named Best Regeneration Project at the 2015 National Brick Awards. The awards are in their 39th year and celebrate excellence in design and construction using brick. They are the most well established and most widely respected of their kind in