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Final proposals for a £2 million extension and refurbishment of Prestonpans Health Centre have been approved by East Lothian Council. The plans will see the building increase in size and will provide purpose-built spaces for patients and staff.

The revamped Scottish Construction Now website is proving more popular than ever with its readers after attracting a record 39,000 unique visitors last month. Page views for the site at www.scottishconstructionnow.com topped 75,000 over the same period, maintaining its continuous monthly increase si

Construction specialists Peace Recruitment scooped two awards at the recent S1 Jobs Recruitment Awards. The Edinburgh-based firm which specialises in recruitment for the built environment (construction, building, architecture) was not only named The Best Small Recruitment Consultancy but one of its

One of Scotland's largest timber merchants has announced multi-million pound plans to expand into three new areas of Scotland. MGM Timber, part of the Fife-based James Donaldson Group, said the expansion, which will add sites in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and either East Kilbride or Cambuslang, was on the

The Federation of Master Builders (FMB) has pointed towards uncertainty amongst businesses and consumers ahead of the EU referendum as a reason behind the latest fall in output within the construction industry. Latest construction sector figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed

Architects at SASANBELL have completed work to alter and refurbish the Edinburgh headquarters of professional chartered accountants body ICAS. Situated in the heart of Edinburgh's Haymarket, CA House is the global HQ of ICAS. The aim was to improve the visitor experience through alteration and refur

Partick Housing Association has submitted plans to transform a former Glasgow school into 60 new flats. Designed by Collective Architecture, the £8 million redevelopment of the former St Peter’s School on Chancellor Street will provide a mix of 1-3 bed homes for social and mid-market rent as well

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.