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Housebuilder Mactaggart & Mickel Homes has been given planning permission to build an exclusive development of six bespoke properties on the site of the former Whitecraigs bowling club in Giffnock. Due to begin on site in Autumn next year, the showpiece of the development will be the former ‘a

Glasgow residents handed final homes in ‘life-changing’ £60m regeneration project A masterplan to create hundreds of affordable homes in central Glasgow has been completed by housing provider Sanctuary.

Jon Stinson and Julio Bros Williamson, research fellows in the Institute for Sustainable Construction at Edinburgh Napier University, believe that smarter, better, faster – homes built in a factory benefit everyone. The methods we use to build homes in the UK are constantly evolving.

Police have launched a criminal investigation into the demolition of a historic Dundee mill. The derelict Halley’s Mill, built in 1836, was demolished by Craigie Estates in May out of safety concerns.

Young people with charity Action for Children have visited Morrison Construction’s £18.9 million Wallyford Primary School project as part of a four-week employability programme. Action for Children works with youth to help them overcome disadvantage, including providing employability support in p

Planning and design consultancy Barton Willmore is are urging planners and developers to have their say and complete a survey to help influence the Planning (Scotland) Bill. Barton Willmore, who recently expanded its operation in Scotland with the opening of an office in the centre of Glasgow, have

Safety netting has been installed around the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow to prevent glass panels falling from the building. A pane of glass fell ten floors from the £842 million hospital earlier this month. It is understood the pane shattered near the front entrance of the buildi

Proposals for a mixed used development at Govan’s Graving Docks have been refused by council planners. ZM Architecture and developer New City Vision, which owns the site, unveiled plans in March last year to bring the site back into use after 40 years of dereliction with the creation of 750 homes

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