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Work begins at new £3.8m Clydebank Community Sports Hub Work on a new £3.8 million community sports facility for Clydebank has officially started – with the state-of-the-art hub due to be up and running later this year.

Expanding building materials group Breedon has confirmed it is in talks to buy a major part of Northern Ireland’s Lagan Group. The Lagan Group is a diversified construction business covering quarrying, cement, asphalt and contracting.

Stewart Milne Group has said its timber systems arm is on course to achieve turnover of £100 million by 2021 after doubling its business in the last four years. With a current turnover of £65m, Stewart Milne Timber Systems should achieve its five-year target, with “robust” growth predicted for

News that the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) has confirmed it will end all directing training by 2020, will create a skills black hole and strip the industry of the capability to undertake specialist training, according to the UK’s construction union. In November, the CITB announced a

The number of workers who have lost their jobs as a result of the collapse of the construction giant Carillion has topped 1,000 amid another wave of cuts. The Official Receiver has announced that a further 152 former employees are being made redundant this week, taking the total to 1,141 since the c

The conversion of a former Dundee college building into Build to Rent and Serviced Apartments can begin in earnest after the VOX Dundee project was awarded planning consent by councillors. Voxcap Investments (Dundee) has appointed Reigart Contracts to undertake enabling works to facilitate the redev

A developer has launched an appeal to the Scottish Government in a bid overturn Aberdeenshire Council’s decision to reject its plans for almost 250 new homes. Barratt North Scotland had proposed to deliver 247 homes on Fordoun Road in Laurencekirk.

Glasgow-based energy and sustainability consultancy Carbon Futures has launched a new consultancy division as part of ambitious growth plans. Operating under the Carbon Futures brand, the company’s new division will provide a range of new consultancy services to the non-domestic sector, from plann

Craft beer company BrewDog has announced plans to build a beer-themed hotel in Aberdeenshire complete with beer taps in the rooms and a built-in shower beer fridge. Planned for a 3.25 acre site next to the firm’s existing brewery in Ellon, the 22-room DogHouse Ellon will also have rooms overlookin

First glimpse inside of Glasgow’s Park Quadrant Residences The interiors of a landmark new development in Glasgow will be revealed this week with the opening of a marketing suite and show apartment at Park Quadrant Residences in the city’s West End.

A company which uses computer algorithms to create customised prefabricated dwellings for homes has completed its first project. Deezen reports that design-build firm Cover has created a 320-square-foot (30-square-metre) studio in Los Angeles which serves as an office and music studio for an Oscar-n

Construction work on Stirling’s first purpose built student accommodation (PBSA) development is due to commence in early 2018 after a deal was struck between Maven Capital Partners (Maven) and IP Investment Management (IPIM). Continuing its penetration into the UK student housing sector, Maven wil

A shared site for two new build Renfrewshire schools is set to be completed and handed over almost two months ahead of schedule. The new state of the art two storey building which will house the adjacent St John Bosco and Bargarran Primary Schools in Erskine, will be ready for occupation from April

The campaigning body for the electrotechnical trade in Scotland is delivering awareness training to local authority staff that carry out verification activities across Scotland. The training, which is now in its third year, is a joint venture between SELECT, NICEIC and LABSS and is aimed at raising

It was a historic occasion in Argyll and Bute on Wednesday when secondary pupils from across Kintyre moved into the new £26 million Campbeltown Grammar School built by Morrison Construction. Welcomed to their new surroundings by two pipers, pupils were gathered in the multi-purpose sports hall wher