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East Ayrshire Council’s plans for a learning and enterprise campus in Cumnock have been approved by the council’s planning committee. The new campus will include Hillside Additional Support Needs School and an Early Childhood Centre as well as new Primary and Secondary provision serving communit

Modular construction firm Portakabin has been awarded a place on 15 lots on LHC’s Modular Buildings Framework. Portakabin was one of the only offsite specialists in the framework to be successful on all 15 lots bid for.

Bowmer & Kirkland has reported a record year of profit for 2016 as revenue at the group rose towards the £1 billion threshold. Pre-tax profit at the builder was up 53% to £61.5 million (2015: £40.2m) while turnover for the year to 31st August 2016 increased by 10% on the previous year to reac

McLaughlin & Harvey relocates Glasgow office to North Lanarkshire McLaughlin & Harvey (McL&H) has relocated its office in Glasgow to North Lanarkshire.

The crimes of cowboy builders are well publicised, but a new study has found that rogue traders may well be out-numbered by rogue customers. Customers having a cavalier attitude towards tradesmen’s safety and wellbeing is common, as are attempts to belittle their expertise, but the worst behaviour

The multi-million pound project to revamp the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh has been modified in order for the project to remain close to the original £16.8 million budget, the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) has announced. A revised scheme for the development, which has been approved

Landscaping and civil engineering firm Land Engineering (Scotland) has gone into administration with 135 employees being made redundant with immediate effect. Administrators Ernst and Young (EY) said the company, which has a head office in Glasgow and several site offices throughout Scotland, had su

Commercial property specialist Colliers International has prepared and lodged a Planning Permission in Principle (PPP) application for the first new prison in the Highlands of Scotland for more than a century. The new HMP Highland will replace the 112-year-old HMP Inverness Prison, located in the ci

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Moray Council is giving local businesses the opportunity to sponsor new street names as a way of raising much needed revenue. The initiative was approved by the council’s planning and regulatory services committee as part of revised policy and procedures for the naming and numbering of streets.

BAM Construction has been appointed by hub East Central Scotland to redevelop Perth City Hall. The building, which closed its doors to the public in 2005 and whose future was until recently the subject of much speculation, is to be converted by Perth & Kinross Council into a world-class visual a

One of the architects behind Glasgow’s Burrell Collection museum has urged those in charge of the building’s £66 million restoration project to not "mess around" with the original. The art gallery and museum is currently closed to undergo extensive repairs and structural changes. A tender seeki

UK construction companies have reported an increase in business activity at the fastest rate for 17 months. The latest Markit/CIPS UK Construction Purchasing Managers’ Index, a monthly survey of construction buyers, rose to 56 in May, up from 53.1 in April.

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Housing maintenance company Mears has banned its workers from having beards, citing health and safety grounds regarding the effectiveness of dust masks. According to the Unite trade union, its members working for Mears in Tower Hamlets were told at a tool box talk that beards were now banned so that