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A global hotel group has announced plans to invest £32 million the redevelopment and expansion of its Edinburgh city centre hotel. UK and Ireland hotel group Jurys Inn and its owner Fattal Hotels aim to invest the sum in the redevelopment and expansion of the existing Jurys Inn Edinburgh hotel and

Further work to improve the A737 moved a step closer this week with the decision by Transport Scotland to award the construction contract to Interserve as part of a £9 million project to realign a stretch of the key route. The A737 The Den Realignment will see the firm construct a one kilometre sec

Hugh Gaffney MP visits Kier's HQ in Stepps Hugh Gaffney MP visited Construction Scotland’s newly refurbished headquarters in Stepps yesterday.

RICS, as part of its Pledge 150 campaign, has joined forces with Social Bite’s Sleep in the Park to help reduce homelessness among young people in Scotland. Corporate teams and RICS members can now take part in any of the Sleep in the Park events, across Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee and Aberdeen wit

Balfour Beatty has completed the £6.5 million Dundee flood protection scheme on behalf of Dundee City Council. The project, which was awarded under the Scape National Civil Engineering and Infrastructure framework, will reduce the risk of flooding to the new £1 billion Dundee Waterfront area, and

Mackenzie Construction supported Scotland’s inaugural Youth Urban Games hosted by Scottish Canals as principal sponsor. The ambitious project, hosted on Glasgow’s Forth and Clyde canal on August 25, showcased the UK’s brightest up and coming talents in BMX, Parkour and Skateboarding. The games

A garden centre and a local boxer are going head-to-head in a clash over the right to develop on the site of a former school in Aberdeen. The Parkhill Garden Centre and champion fighter Lee McAllister are locked in a battle over who will take over the site. The former school building was set on fire

Aberdeenshire housebuilder Claymore Homes has invested £600,000 in new headquarters in a move aimed at ensuring the future growth of the business. Established in 2007, the firm has built its new 4,480sq ft premises in Aden Business Park, Mintlaw.

Aberdeen metal reprocessing, tubular supply and decommissioning company John Lawrie Group has marked a significant year in its life-cycle with an increase in profits. November saw the completion of a private equity backed management buy-out when four members of John Lawrie Group’s management team,

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Mexico's next president has called a referendum so the public can decide whether to build the capital's major new airport, despite the fact that construction has been ongoing since 2015. President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador said he would let voters decide whether to continue construction of

The 150-bedroom Aloft Hotel, part of the new AECC project which includes The Event Complex Aberdeen (TECA), has “topped out” now that the structure has been completed. The hotel, located just north of the Hilton Hotel that adjoins TECA, will be the first building in Phase 2 of the AECC masterpla

Perth and Kinross Council has approved plans for a major expansion of the region’s biggest town. Stewart Milne Homes North’s plan for 117 homes across 14 acres of land off Maple Place in Blairgowrie was backed by the council’s planning and development committee.

A modest rise in activity in the UK construction sector saw output growth ease to a three-month low in August, the latest monthly survey of industry purchasing managers has revealed. Data unveiled by the Markit/CIPS UK Construction Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) highlighted a slowdown of momentu

Cairnrobin Commercial Park cements relationship with building materials supplier Keyline DM Hall has secured the presence of building materials business Keyline, an arm of the Travis Perkins group, at Cairnrobin Commercial Park in Aberdeen.