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A young apprentice had the honour of handing over the keys for the new GP and Minor Injuries Centre, delivered by hub East Central Scotland, which will open to patients in August 2018. Ruairi Gallagher, an apprentice heating engineer with FES and apprentice of the year at Glasgow Kelvin College, was

Dismantling works at the fire-ravaged Mackintosh Building at the Glasgow School of Art is to begin as soon as possible following the arrival of cranes on the site. Over the weekend, work to assess the condition of the Mackintosh Building continued with further drone footage of the building collected

The future of more than 300 staff at troubled interior solutions provider Havelock Europa has been secured after the business was bought out of administration by turnaround specialist Rcapital. Toby Underwood and Graham Frost of PwC were appointed joint administrators of the Kirkcaldy-based firm tod

A builder who was sacked for a prank Snapchat video which mocked his supervisors for being lazy has got a new job and it turns out his new boss thought the video was actually pretty funny too. Last month, Alun Rees from Rhonda in Wales was left unemployed after a series of Snapchat videos went viral

A planning application for the development of 130 properties on the Ellengowan estate in Dundee was submitted to the local authority last week. The plans, which focus on good quality design and landscaping, offer a mix of houses, cottage flats, amenity flats and flats.

Holmes Miller has submitted a planning application on behalf of North Lanarkshire Council to extend the existing visitor centre at Drumpellier Country Park in Coatbridge. The centre is to be redeveloped as a gateway to the Seven Lochs Wetland Park, a new heritage and nature park spanning the Glasgow

The analysis of responses to a consultation on a revised the Code of Conduct for registered property factors has been published by the Scottish Government. A draft revised Code was published as part of a public consultation which took place between 6 October 2017 and 15 January 2018. The current Cod

Construction Scotland Innovation Centre (CSIC) and the Digital Health and Care Institute (DHI) are leading a pilot project that will explore a range of ways that colleges and innovation centres can work together to support business innovation. FUTUREquipped will see four of Scotland’s innovation c

A new £10 million primary school in Bearsden has been handed over by Morgan Sindall. The school, designed for 450 pupils, has enabled the co-location of two former schools which were in need of modernisation.

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has launched competition to design an animal centre on behalf of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA). The winning design will initially be used for a new RSPCA centre in the north west of England but it is hoped that it

Representatives from BAM TCP Atlantic Square and HM Revenue & Customs gathered at a ground breaking ceremony at Atlantic Square celebrating a major new investment and landmark buildings for Glasgow. Dougie Peters, managing director of BAM Properties, welcomed Fiona Wallace and colleagues from HM

Efforts to attract private inward investment to Scotland’s infrastructure sector could be given a significant boost through the adoption of new global construction standards, according to the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). RICS states that adopting International Construction Measur

Project delays and “challenges in the Aberdeenshire housing market” has resulted in Highland building companies Deveron Homes Limited and Deveron Construction Limited being placed into administration. The privately-owned firms operate two service lines from their headquarters in Huntly, comprisi

Inverness Airport has been identified as the preferred location for a proposed remote towers control centre for seven regional airports. Highlands and Islands Airports Limited (HIAL) said a scoping study from consultants Ekos, setting out why Inverness should be the preferred location, has been acce

After a public competition, Ayrshire Housing has selected six well known architects to its new framework. The architects will support its ambitions for growth over the next four years.