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Over 1,000 jobs across 32 depots are at risk at crane hire specialist Hewden after negotiations with potential new investors are understood to have stalled. Sky News has reported that the firm called in EY to act as the company’s administrators.

Part of the main arterial route between Scotland and England re-opened to traffic at over six hours ahead of schedule following the first planned closure of the road in its 50 year history. As part of the £500 million M8 M73 M74 Motorway Improvements Project, the M74 was closed to traffic in both d

Planning submitted for Aviemore Premier Inn LMA Architects have submitted a planning application for a new Premier Inn in Aviemore.

The Princes Square shopping centre in Glasgow has been voted as Scotland's best building of the last hundred years. Announced by cabinet secretary Fiona Hyslop on during the Festival of Architecture’s finale Light Nights event in Dundee on Friday, the winning entry was one of 100 buildings of the

The £250 million Aberdeen City Region Deal agreement was officially signed today, paving the way for investment in infrastructure across the region. The terms of the deal commit both the UK government and Scottish Government to jointly investing up to £250m whilst Aberdeen City Council, Aberdeensh

Logistics and construction services company Malcolm Group has reported a 27 per cent increase in pre-tax profits following tighter cost management and “operational efficiencies”. The surge in profits to £8.39 million, from £6.60m in 2015, comes despite sales dipping almost three per cent to £

Second round of Canonmills Garden consultation exhibitions Artisan Canonmills Ltd has announced dates for a second round of community consultation exhibitions for its proposed Canonmills Gardens development planned for the former B&Q site at 13 Warriston Road in Edinburgh.

A 90-year-old Canadian has made headlines for digging his own grave. "I love digging," Jimmy Kickham, from Prince Edward Island, told CBC News, saying he feels pride in his personal project.

Administrators have completed a deal to sell three divisions of crane hire specialist Hewden to UK rental business A-Plant but over 250 employees have been made redundant. The restructuring team of EY was today appointed administrators of the Manchester-based plant hire firm after it was unable to r

Small housing developers in Scotland are optimistic about the numbers of homes they aim to deliver over the next five years but have expressed frustration over the “myriad of obstacles and barriers” that they expect to face, according to a new survey. The findings of the poll, which explored the

Contaminated land remediation specialist Environmental Reclamation Services Ltd (ERS) has become Scotland’s latest employee-owned business with all 28 employees now having a stake in the firm. With offices in Bishopbriggs, Edinburgh and Inverness, ERS delivers innovative solutions for the identifi

Dundee Regional Performance Centre for Sport decision delayed Proposals to build the Regional Performance Centre for Sport in Dundee’s Caird Park were withdrawn from Dundee City Council’s development management committee agenda at the last minute.

The Iraqi postal service has paid tribute to the late Zaha Hadid by featuring her on a new stamp, Deezen has reported. The Iraq-born architect, who died earlier this year aged 65, is one of two architects honoured on the new postage stamps, along with Mohamed Makiya, who passed away last year at the

Plans have been unveiled to transform a neglected part of Ayr's historic town centre into a mixed-use development with a thriving new public realm. The new masterplan for the Ayr Riverside Block has been submitted to South Ayrshire Council by Ayr Renaissance, an organisation formed by the council ta

Plans have been submitted to Highland Council for the new Justice Centre in Inverness. The Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS) intends to build the new centre a site between Longman Road and Burnett Road, following a pre-planning application and public exhibition held in August.