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Borders Railway receives prestigious Infrastructure award Borders Railway has received the Infrastructure accolade at the RICS Awards Scotland 2016.

The Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, is to write an ode to old-fashioned gas and electric meters as they face extinction, the BBC has reported. Glasgow-born Duffy, who was appointed Poet Laureate in 2009, said she wanted to preserve the place of traditional "whirring" meters in household history.

Plans have been lodged for a new £35 million housing development at the former site of an Aberdeen school. Aberdeen City Council has submitted a detailed planning application to build 369 residential flats at the old location of Summerhill Academy which has lain vacant for four years.

Plans for a 1,350-home development on green belt land on the edge of Edinburgh face an uncertain future after the plans were withdrawn from a council planning meeting. Put forward by developer Murray Estates, the proposal was for the first phase of a 675-acre Garden District development on a 54-hect

The University of Edinburgh has opened the bidding for contactors to redevelop parts of its School of Biological Sciences’ facilities on its King’s Buildings Campus. The ‘Building a New Biology’ project is a plan to grow the university’s research and teaching capacity. It plans to invest Â

A judicial review into CITB’s construction industry training levy has been dismissed at the Royal Courts of Justice. The legal action was taken against the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), with CITB named as an interested party, by payroll company Hudsons Contract Services Ltd.

An enterprise park has been launched by Fusion Assets following the designation of a new Life Sciences Enterprise Area based around the BioCity Campus in North Lanarkshire. The undeveloped Lanarkshire Enterprise Park site within the adjacent Dunalastair Industrial Estate was originally purchased by

Homeless World Cup to transform George Square Glasgow’s George Square is to be transformed into a stunning arena with three football pitches and seating for 3,500 spectators when it plays host to the Homeless World Cup later this year.

The Institute of Civil Engineers (ICE) is calling on practising engineers and construction professionals to help former colleagues make their way back into engineering. ICE is working across the civil engineering sector as part of its Civils Comeback scheme to encourage more companies to get involve

Hundreds of homes in Cumbria will be heated using biogas produced from the cheese-making process from next month. A government-backed green energy plant in the area will start producing gas from cheddar manufacturing waste, The Telegraph reports.

Plans by Edinburgh Printmakers to create a new creative hub in Fountainbridge have edged closer following a £1.9 million grant from the Scottish Government. The cash takes the art charity to 90 per cent of its target £11m funding total, prompting it to appeal to the public to help raise the remain

Bowmer and Kirkland has been fined after a worker was seriously injured when he fell through a void. Edinburgh Sheriff Court heard how a worker employed by a sub-contractor working for the Derbyshire firm was contracted to pour concrete onto the first floor of a building that was under construction

Doubt has arisen over the £850 million redevelopment of the St James Centre in Edinburgh following a legal challenge over ownership of the site. Work is due to start on the project next month to create a new St James Quarter with shops, hotels, leisure complex and apartments.

A £4 million redevelopment of Dalkeith Country Park is set to create around 50 jobs. A new retail, food, drink and wellbeing space, named the Restoration Yard, will take pride of place in the park’s previous stableyard area alongside the magical new Fort Douglas playground.

Proposals for 100 new homes in Leven have been approved by Fife councillors. Campion Homes wants to extend the town’s north-eastern boundary with the development planned for land off Cupar Road.