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Construction apprenticeships across Great Britain are up 12 per cent in the past year, reaching levels not seen since before the 2008 financial crisis. New statistics released by the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB), for National Apprenticeship Week (14-18 March), reveal that 22,496 young

The number of homes completed in Scotland has increased by four per cent compared to the previous year, according to official statistics figures released today. A quarterly statistical publication from the Scottish Government revealed that 16,000 homes were completed across all sectors in the year t

Morrison Construction is to build an £8.2 million community facility in South Ayrshire after the project was granted planning approval. Work on the new Tarbolton Community Campus can now begin with the official contracts now signed after the project reached financial close.

A property development pipeline map of Glasgow city centre has been launched at today at the MIPIM property market event in Cannes. The map, issued by commercial property advisors Bilfinger GVA, summarises the key opportunities in the city centre for development as well as the peripheral areas aroun

Plans have been submitted for a 40 bed accommodation block in Dornoch for the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI). Designed by ThreeSixty Architecture, the development will form part of a larger roll out of accommodation in the region for the university

£3.2m Fairfield Housing Co-operative development nears completion in Perth Much needed affordable homes are nearing completion in the penultimate phase of the Muirton Park regeneration in Perth.

The Scottish Government has awarded over £10 million to support innovative large-scale low carbon local energy projects, energy minister Fergus Ewing has announced. Speaking at the annual Community and Renewable Energy Scheme (CARES) Conference in Stirling yesterday, Mr Ewing confirmed that nine pr

First turf cut on the site of the new Elgin High School Construction work was formally – and finally - started on the site of the new Elgin High School yesterday with a turf-cutting ceremony.

Glasgow Harbour has unveiled plans to build 1,400 homes on a 52 acre regeneration site on the banks of the Clyde and Kelvin opposite the Riverside Museum. The wholly owned subsidiary of Peel Land and Property said the flats and town houses will form part of a £200 million masterplan for the site ov

An upgrade to a notorious bottleneck on the A96 at Inveramsay Bridge where traffic lights have been in place for decades, is set to open under traffic management tomorrow. The £10.2 million Balfour Beatty project which will carry the A96 over the Aberdeen-Inverness railway line, will end queuing at

A housebuilder is calling on political parties to increase the provision of retirement housing to meet the needs of Scotland’s ageing population. McCarthy & Stone said encouraging specialised retirement housing for homeowners would result in a triple win for government by improving the lives o

Progress was made towards a new Argyll and Bute housing development yesterday. Councillors have approved a planning application for a new bonded warehouse, the first step in a distillery and residential housing development, at Polphail village, Portavadie, as well as a masterplan which will guide th

BAM Construction could begin work on the new Our Lady and St Patrick’s High School in Dumbarton within weeks after councillors agreed to conclude contracts for the project. Members of West Dunbartonshire Council’s infrastructure and regeneration committee yesterday gave their approval for the de

Plans for a Lidl outlet, new homes and retail units at Mitchell Way, in Alexandria, have been given the go ahead by West Dunbartonshire Council. A preferred developer has been approved to take forward the redevelopment of this key site in the centre of the town.

Seeing builders stripped to the waist as they work on construction sites could be a thing of the past, thanks to a new Heriot-Watt University project that will send personalised sun-exposure text message warnings direct to their smartphones. Researchers at the University’s School of Life Sciences