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Over £76 million of financing has been secured for the construction of two onshore wind farms after renewable energy developer Velocita received planning permission for both sites. Construction has already started Airies wind farm in Dumfries and Galloway, and the Sorbie wind farm in North Ayrshire

Moray Glennie, senior development officer at Kingdom Housing Association; Archie Sprunt; Jim Murphy, MD Abbotshall Homes; Joanne Aitken, development worker at Fife Works; Allan Cairns and Bill Banks, chief executive at Kingdom Housing Association Kingdom comes for long-term job seeker Archie

A doctor from Bangladesh has scooped top prize in the Art of Building digital photography competition, run by the Chartered Institute of Building since 2010. Daredevil by Ata Adnan received 29 per cent of the thousands of votes cast by the public to choose this year’s winner.

Simplified and streamlined procurement and a renewed focus on energy efficiency in the existing built environment are among the Scottish Building Federation’s recommendations for sustainable growth in the Scottish construction sector. In its policy manifesto for the 2016 Scottish Parliament electi

MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant: Gray Property & Consultancy Limited

Energy giant Total has started production on two new West of Shetland gas fields after work completed on the largest building project in the UK since the London Olympics. The huge new gas plant which will service the vast West of Shetland region contains almost one fifth of the UK’s remaining oil

Proposals to relocate Highland Council’s administrative offices to a regenerated conversion of a B-listed former Fort William secondary school have been approved by the local authority. The move is part of a £6 million office rationalisation programme which will also include the demolition of a c

A major programme of enhanced maintenance works costing around £140,000 is due to start next Monday on the A82 route between Tarbet and Inverarnan. The work, which will include a programme of tree and drainage clearance and the removal of loose rocks, meets a pledge that transport minister Derek Ma

Noble Francis Growth estimates for the UK construction industry have been downgraded because of slower economic growth.

Ronald McDonald House CCG (Scotland) has announced three of its development projects have been shortlisted for this year's RICS awards.

MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant: Teague Homes (UK) Ltd.

Over £5.6 million has been paid out to construction workers by companies involved in blacklisting. A total of 71 members of construction union UCATT have begun to receive blacklisting compensation payouts averaging nearly £80,000 each.

Construction work will finally begin on a new high school in Elgin within weeks, after Moray Council regained control of its soaring costs, the Press and Journal reports. Councillors were dismayed last year after it appeared that delays which set the project back by months had sent costs soaring.

Contracts have been signed to allow construction work to start on the £26.5 million Dalbeattie Learning Campus next month. The facility is being delivered by hub South West on behalf of Dumfries & Galloway Council and in partnership with Graham Construction.

Plans to build over 800 new homes on the site of the former West Lothian hospital are to continue after councillors failed to reach a decision on the application. The proposal for a residential and mixed use development at the former Bangour Village Hospital site in Dechmont was discussed at a meeti