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New Jaguar Land Rover Arch Facility opens in Ayr The construction of a new state-of-the-art car Arch Facility in Ayr has been officially completed by CCG.

A host of famous faces from the Gorbals are to be honoured at a new housing development in the area. A total of 19 well-known names have had a house type named after them at the next phase of Urban Union’s Laurieston Living development.

Miller Plant Limited has been fined £15,000 over a health and safety breach which resulted in three contract workers being exposed to asbestos fibres. The Inverurie-based plant contracting and hire service provider was handed the fine at Aberdeen Sheriff Court after admitting engaging an unlicensed

The first step in a £40 million partnership programme to create 150 new extra care housing properties in the Borders has been taken.

Kier Construction Scotland has been named as one of four principal supply chain partners on the new £160 million Aberdeenshire Council Social Housing Improvement Framework, which will see Kier deliver up to £40m worth of construction, renovation and maintenance improvements to thousands of counci

A £40 million expansion of Spirits producer Chivas Brothers’ Kilmalid site in Dumbarton has been approved by West Dunbartonshire Council’s Planning Committee ─ guaranteeing hundreds of new jobs for the area.

Bathroom pod manufacturer Offsite Solutions has been awarded a supply contract for the new £70 million state-of-the-art East Lothian Community Hospital. The firm will provide 134 factory-built bathroom pods for the 22,000sqm community hospital in Haddington. The units will be supplied without floor

The UK business of Spanish contractor Ferrovial has suffered another pre-tax loss after taking a further hit on the M8 improvement project. Filings published at Companies House for Ferrovial Agroman UK revealed pre-tax losses of £12 million in the year to December 31, slightly up from a £13m loss

Tarmac has announced the acquisition of ScottishPower’s 50% share of the sustainable construction products joint venture ScotAsh Limited. The building materials and construction solutions business will now take full ownership of ScotAsh, which it has operated since 1999, and will continue to opera

NHS Lanarkshire has been given the go-ahead to develop an outline business case to rebuild or refurbish Monklands Hospital. The approval of the initial agreement to seek a capital allocation for the project means the health board can move on to the next phase of planning.

A growth in construction output across the UK in August failed to offset a fall in output over the quarter, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has found. Construction output grew 0.6% month-on-month in August 2017, predominantly driven by a 1.7% rise in all new work thanks to private housing,

A new roads maintenance initiative has been launched between eight councils in Scotland. The Northern Roads Collaboration Forum involves local authorities working together to share staff, equipment and properties to improve the repair and maintenance of roads, as well as reduce costs.

Strategic plan to bring thousands of affordable homes to South Lanarkshire approved A plan which will underpin the development of thousands of new affordable homes in South Lanarkshire is being submitted to the Scottish Government after being approved by councillors.

FM issues ‘use it or lose it’ warning to councils on house building money Local authorities who do not use their house building funding face losing their allocation altogether, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has warned.

The firm behind plans to redevelop Aberdeen’s Rubislaw Quarry have released new images which showcase the full scale of the £68 million project. Canadian developer Carttera is seeking to build around 300 rented flats, a gym, and a “heritage bistro” at Rubislaw Quarry, which will host a perman