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The Design, Build, Finance and Maintain (DBFM) contract for Wick Campus has moved forward after the project reached financial close last week.

Growth in the UK construction sector last month eased to its slowest rate for 17 months, according to new data. At 57.6, down from 59.4 in November, the latest Markit/CIPS UK Construction PMI index signalled the least marked increase in construction since July 2013. That said, the latest reading was

An ambitious project to transform the campus of one of Scotland’s oldest universities could cost three quarters of a billion pounds.

The sale of a medical centre in Edinburgh has helped construction group James Walker (Leith) to a 50 per cent jump in annual profits. The Livingston-based firm also saw its timber frame business move into the black as sales grew on the back of improving conditions across the housebuilding sector.

Our round-up of the stories which caught the attention of SCN readers last year:

Construction of a £1.45m visitor centre at Falkirk's Helix Park is to get under this month.

A French company has been developing aesthetically pleasing, tree-shaped turbines meant to run silently within cities, at ground level. The Wind Tree is being developed by NewWind and has 72 artificial leaves. Each one is a vertical axis turbine, vaguely conical in shape. Because each one has little

Margaret Burgess The number of new homes built in Scotland has risen by nine per cent in the last year, according to official figures.

Allan Callaghan Construction output in the UK fell by two per cent in November compared to the previous month, according to today’s figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Craiginches Prison Demolition work has started on Aberdeen’s old Craiginches Prison.

Nicola Sturgeon opens the scheme in Leven A £30 million scheme to spread the benefits of new house sales to small and medium sized developers has been launched by the Scottish Government.

Derek MacKay An additional £3 million is being invested by the Scottish Government in the A83 in the coming year.

Liz Cameron The Scottish construction industry is showing strong order growth and investment trends driven by housebuilding, the Scottish Chambers of Commerce (SCC) said today.

St Kessog's Primary School West Dunbartonshire Council has voted to build a new purpose-built education campus in Balloch incorporating two primary schools, an early learning and childcare centre and an additional support needs base.

Barratt Homes is to deliver 2,100 new homes across 13 new sites in Scotland after citing “a strong recovery in the housing market following the launch of the Help to Buy scheme”. The housebuilder said its expansion north of the Border underpins employment for about 4000 new and existing jobs.