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Plans for two new Mental Health in-patient wards at Stobhill Hospital were given a major boost this week after the Board of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) approved the full business case. The final stage of the process of developing the state-of-the-art wards is to submit the full business c

The development of The Event Complex Aberdeen (TECA) has reached another major milestone as work begins on the interior fit-out of the building. It comes as new computer-generated visualisations created by Keppie Design show how the venue’s arena and restaurant will look once completed.

CALA Homes (West) and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde have been granted planning approval from East Dunbartonshire Council for a development of 163 private and affordable homes at the former Broomhill Hospital in Kirkintilloch. The application was unanimously approved by the planning board, subject to

Barcelona’s most famous landmark is set to get formal planning permission 136 years after work began. A deal has been struck with the city for Antoni Gaudí’s iconic Sagrada Família after years of unlicensed construction.

Argyll and Bute Council is to submit a multi-million pound funding bid to the UK and Scottish governments that would see investment in areas as wide ranging as transport, broadband, education and market-leading business innovation. The bid comprises sixteen different projects that would bring togeth

Robertson employees working on construction sites across Aberdeen have raised more than £6,000 in the last six months for local charities and good causes. Sites including Craiginches, Caledon Court, Pittodrie Street student accommodation and The Event Complex Aberdeen (TECA), including its two

A decision on whether to extend Edinburgh’s trams to Newhaven has been delayed until early 2019 to allow extra time for due diligence and evaluation of the final submissions, it was announced today. Tenders for the £165 million project were received in early September and the City of Edi

The Trump Organisation will have to pay £5 million towards affordable housing should plans to build luxury housing near the US president’s Aberdeenshire golf course gain planning approval, according to reports. Plans to build 550 new homes on a site within the Trump International Golf Li

A new downloadable game which demonstrates the benefits of a career in construction through games-based learning has been launched at the Skills Scotland show at Glasgow’s SEC. The £200,000 free-to-download ‘Construction Manager’ game was commissioned by the Construction Indu

Scottish Greens have welcomed changes to the Scottish Government’s planning bill which they say will help tackle Scotland’s housing crisis by making land for housebuilding more affordable, however housebuilders have called the measures “premature”. Housing spokesperson Andy W

The remains of a woolly mammoth from the ice age are among the latest remarkable finds on the £1.5 billion A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon project. Highways England experts, working alongside archaeologists from MOLA Headland Infrastructure, have discovered the partial remains of a woolly mammoth

CALA Homes (West) has revealed a number of “significant” community benefits from its development at North Bar, Erskine, including a proposed new bus service. The homebuilder’s proposals represent a major investment in the long-term future of the area with the creation of 195 new te

Delays associated with historic turbulence in the construction sector have held back the announcement of accounts by Laing O’Rourke, the contractor has said. Laing O’Rourke said its accounts for the year to 31st March 2018, which have been overdue since September 30, will now not be file

Blue Box Design’s new state-of-the-art design and manufacturing facility has been officially opened by Karen Betts, chief executive, Scottish Whisky Association.

The Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route (AWPR) will not open in late autumn as planned with contractors tentatively targeting a December launch, Scotland’s transport secretary has admitted. In a project update presented to the Scottish Parliament yesterday, Michael Matheson MSP said the full ope