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Thirteen apprentices start at Clark Contracts Thirteen apprentices have joined Clark Contracts’ Academy, taking their first steps to becoming qualified joiners, bricklayers, decorators, plasterers and administrators.

Developers behind a project to transform Edinburgh’s historic Royal High School into a luxury hotel have revised their plans in an attempt to gain council approval. Weeks after the City of Edinburgh Council unanimously backed an alternative bid for a music school on the site, Duddingston House Pro

Over 400 of the Scottish construction industry’s key influencers and decision makers are set to gather today to discuss burning topics such as productivity, innovation, procurement and digitisation. Hosted by BBC journalist David Henderson, the Construction Scotland and Innovation Centre Conferenc

A £40 million shopping development is set to transform a derelict site in the north of Glasgow after councillors approved plans this week. Members of Glasgow City Council's planning committee gave the green light to proposals by Forge Properties to build a supermarket, gym, petrol filling station a

Plans have been drawn up for a student housing complex on the derelict site in Aberdeen. Proposed by West Coast Estates, the development would see accommodation for up to 100 students built next to the Bobbin Mill pub at 500 King Street.

Plans for a £6.4 million transformation of an historic Inverness hotel have been lodged with Highland Council. Patio Hotel Group wants to turn the nine-bed B-listed Maple Court Hotel on the banks of River Ness into a four star, 50-room, hotel with a restaurant.

Despite substantial investments, the construction industry is struggling to employ the full benefits of technologies like advanced data and analytics, mobile telephony, automation and robotics, a new report has found. In a survey of 200-plus senior construction executives by KPMG, just 8 per cent of

Photographs have been discovered which show the construction of a Victorian sewerage system which has served Aberdeen for more than 100 years. The images date from 1900 and 1901 and highlight the dirty and often dangerous work of the men sent underground to burrow out the Girdleness Outfall Scheme.

Theme park operator Flamingo Land has been selected as the preferred developer for a £30 million holiday resort project in Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park. The company was appointed by Scottish Enterprise to take forward proposals for its 20 hectare site at West Riverside in Balloch.

Plans for a hotel and restaurant on the outskirts of Peterhead have been approved by Aberdeenshire Council. The Buchan Gateway scheme at the Invernettie roundabout was first mooted in 2003 when developers hoped the site would become a location for shops, including a supermarket and a petrol station.

Plans have been submitted to transform a 1970s Dundee office block into a hotel with serviced holiday apartments and a rooftop restaurant. Assurance Developments’ proposals for 5 Whitehall Crescent consist of 3 storeys of serviced holiday apartments, 2 storeys of hotel bedrooms and a rooftop resta

Elderpark Housing Association is to transform a former Govan school into new offices after the sale of the site was approved by Glasgow City Council. The local authority’s executive committee gave the green light to the £283,743 sale of the former Hill's Trust School in Govan from City Property (

New College Lanarkshire and Amey put young people on road to success A group of young people are taking their first steps on the road to success through a winning partnership between New College Lanarkshire and Amey.

Miller Homes has announced it plans to continue its “substantial” land investment programme after the firm unveiled a 66 per cent rise in interim profits. "Buoyant" market conditions helped the Edinburgh-based group towards a profit before tax of £38.2 million for the six months to the end of J

The Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice chief executive Rhona Baillie has announced that Balfour Beatty is the contractor for work to build a new home for Glasgow’s Hospice as the first JCB arrived on site at Bellahouston Park. The announcement marked the start of a project to build a state-of-