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The BRIT Awards have today given a first look at the 2017 Zaha Hadid-designed award, one of the final commissions of the architect’s career. Dame Zaha Hadid started work on the project three months before she died in March.

Policies employed by Laing O’Rourke over the extent of union access being permitted to its £212 million Dumfries hospital project amount to “backdoor blacklisting” and “can’t be tolerated on a public sector project”, construction union UCATT has said. The two parties are at loggerheads

The first ever comprehensive survey of Glasgow’s city centre office stock has revealed that there is less space on the market than previously thought. The report conducted by property agents Cushman & Wakefield shows that there is currently a total of 13.8 million sq ft of office space in the

Plans to invest £163 million into building almost 1,200 affordable homes in the Scottish Borders have been approved by councillors. However, it came with a warning that the construction sector would have to be worked with closely in order to see the plans delivered.

Around two thirds of social landlords in Scotland have insufficient in-house skills and capacity to deliver an expanded programme of new affordable housing beyond what they currently have planned, a new survey has revealed. According to the poll, this includes one third who say they have no or insuf

Virgin Media and Scottish Property Federation partner to deliver ultrafast broadband Virgin Media and the Scottish Property Federation have today announced a partnership to increase the delivery of ultrafast broadband services to new homes and businesses across Scotland.

After legal challenges stretching back to over a year, St Andrews finally looks set to get a new secondary school, but not at the expected location. In a surprise announcement at yesterday’s meeting of Fife Council, council leader David Ross revealed that a deal with St Andrews University was

The Stornoway Port Authority (SPA) has unveiled a £66 million draft masterplan outlining a 20-year vision for the development of Stornoway Harbour. The draft masterplan includes a proposal to create a £50m deepwater engineering base at Arnish, as well as the redevelopment of the Goat Island boatya

Scotland is ideally placed to become a global leader in the generation of electricity from renewable sources, according to new research from Savills. Savills Energy and Savills Research have combined to produce innovative analysis charting the growth and performance of the onshore wind sector in Abe

Fresh proposals have been unveiled for a £20 million revitalisation of Union Terrace Gardens in Aberdeen to coincide with a public engagement exercise. A key element of the Aberdeen City Centre Masterplan (CCMP) project, the Union Terrace Gardens (UTG) designs have been drawn up by landscape d

Paisley-based Citygate Construction (CGC) is on track to surpass £14 million in turnover in 2016 following a significant expansion into England. The construction firm said the record turnover figure had been boosted by winning a large number of contracts south of the border, with more in the pipeli

Proposals to kick-start the regeneration of an historic part of Ayr town centre are now moving forward after plans were approved to develop new office accommodation at the Riverside Block. Ayr Renaissance recently submitted a masterplan for a mixed development between High Street and the River Ayr w

Taylor Wimpey West Scotland has secured detailed planning consent from South Lanarkshire Council for 486 new homes in East Kilbride. The 61 acre site on land off Shields Road at Benthall Farm is allocated for housing in the South Lanarkshire Local Development Plan, and will allow Taylor Wimpey West

Scotland’s transition to the new Land & Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT) was “operationally successful” but it is “too early to draw any definitive conclusions” on its impact on the property market, MSPs on a Holyrood committee have said. A report by the Scottish Parliament’s finance

Ambitious targets to build a new generation of affordable homes to help meet existing needs have been agreed by South Ayrshire Council. The Strategic Housing Investment Plan (SHIP) paves the way for almost 600 new homes to be built in the next five years.