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Contracts have been signed to allow construction work to start on the £26.5 million Dalbeattie Learning Campus next month. The facility is being delivered by hub South West on behalf of Dumfries & Galloway Council and in partnership with Graham Construction.

The Institution of Civil Engineers Scotland (ICE) has challenged all policy-makers to sign-up to a pledge supporting infrastructure maintenance, development and delivery for the benefit of the country. Published in the run-up to May’s Scottish Parliament elections, the ICE’s Manifesto for Infras

The Laurieston Transformational Regeneration Area has been named as one of six housing projects across the UK to compete for the Royal Town Planning Institute’s (RTPI) prestigious planning awards this year. Delivering 459 new homes to a 13 hectare regeneration site in the Gorbals, the project join

Plans to build Scotland’s first purpose built accessible space for disabled dancers have been submitted in Glasgow. Collective Architecture’s proposals will the Category A-listed former Briggait fish market in the city’s Merchant Quarter transformed into home for dance and physical performance

The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) has unveiled plans to cut 30 per cent of staff by the end of 2018. Confirmation of the job cuts, which will see its staff numbers drop to 950 from the current level of around 1,400, follows CITB’s board signing off the organisations business plan, wh

Former school’s affordable housing transformation begins in Burntisland A project is under way to renovate the three main vacant buildings at the site of Burntisland’s former primary school into 25 affordable homes.

Procurement consortium LHC has begun the tender process for its new Pitched Roofing framework. A contract notice for the programme, worth an estimated £100 million over four years, has now been issued by the local government organisation.

The number of homes being built in Scotland is significantly lower than Scottish Government targets and does not meet current demands, according to new research. A report by property consultancy JLL has concluded that Scotland faces an “enormous challenge” to build the homes needed for a growing

Highland Council approves plans for Raasay distillery Highland Council has approved plans for the Isle of Raasay's first whisky distillery.

Plans to transform Edinburgh’s former Royal High School into a new music school and concert venue have been endorsed by Historic Environment Scotland. Experts at the national heritage agency said the proposals, which were formally submitted by the Royal High School Preservation Trust in December,

Move to block Great Tapestry of Scotland home fails A late bid to halt funding for a permanent home for the Great Tapestry of Scotland has failed as Scottish Borders Council agreed its budget.

Output in the UK construction industry was estimated to have decreased by 0.4 per cent during the last quarter of 2015, when compared with the third quarter. Latest estimates from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed that while new work was up by 0.2 per cent, repair and maintenance (R&

A total of £100 million is to be invested into capital programmes in Aberdeenshire as councillors agreed its budgets for the year ahead. A budget of almost £700m of funding for local services was agreed at a meeting of full council yesterday, also including £533m for revenue and £60m for housing

Moray Council is investing more than £850,000 in a Forres business park to meet demand for industrial units. Following upon the success in developing and letting four factory units to small businesses at Waterford Circle in 2013/14, a further development of five units is currently under constructio

Plans have been revealed to recreate a huge version of Dundee’s Royal Arch out of cardboard boxes. More than 50 years after it was unceremoniously dynamited to make way for the Tay Bridge, the tower will be rebuilt in less than 24 hours by a team of volunteers, created out of specially designed ca