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A man has been sentenced to 10 months imprisonment after pleading guilty to conning an 89-year-old woman out of thousands of pounds for unnecessary roof repairs. Airdrie Sheriff Court heard that on Friday 6 December 2013 Barney Doherty, accompanied by another male, cold called the woman at her home

Edinburgh based Advance Global Recruitment (AGR) is hoping to capitalise on the improving housing and construction markets with a new construction subsidiary. AGR, which mostly works in the subsea sector and has a turnover of about £10m, said it already has deals in place with housebuilders and con

Mike Quinton More retirement homes were registered to be built in the UK in the first six months of this year than the whole of the previous year, according to new figures released by NHBC.

Faslane living accommodation Problem Ministry of Defence contracts at the Faslane Naval Base have resulted in a pre-tax loss of £27.2 million during the first half of this year for Morgan Sindall.

People across Argyll and Bute who have completed developments in the past three years can enter the council’s third sustainable design awards. Recognising, promoting and celebrating examples of exceptional design quality, the awards give developers the opportunity to have their work endorsed by pl

Castle Mill Works in Edinburgh A Glasgow cemetery which forms an important part of Scotland’s Jewish heritage, the City Observatory Complex in Edinburgh and an extremely rare locomotive turntable in Aberdeen are amongst the latest recipients of Historic Scotland’s Building Repairs Grants Scheme.

Some of the new homes at Pittencrieff Street Kingdom Housing Association has marked the completion of 65 new affordable homes for Mid Market Rent at Pittencrieff Street, Dunfermline.

Balfour Beatty has reported a £150m pre-tax loss for the half year to June 26 as it continues to count the cost of problem UK contracts. The infrastructure group issued a profit warning last month after “identify legacy issues” in the UK, US and Middle East would hit profits.

Scottish Ministers have completed the Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) which will enable the West Link road project to go ahead, the Highland Council has confirmed. Negotiations with the land owners concerned, which focussed on resolving land access and boundary treatment details, led to the withdraw

Construction output rose by 0.2 per cent between the first and second quarters, according to the latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) data. Year on year output in the second quarter was estimated to have increased by 2.4 per cent.

A report into the spiralling costs of the V&A Dundee project has found that a series of management failings in the early stages of the project meant there was “little prospect” of it being kept to its original budget. The independent inquiry into the increase of expenditure for the new water

Balfour Beatty look set to be appointed to the Dundee Rail Station Concourse, despite project cost being more than £7 million over the pre-tender estimate. The contractor submitted the lowest tender and received the highest quality score for its £28m bid, which includes a commitment to create loca

A contractor has been appointed to build a new £1.9 million bespoke field centre at Forsinard in Sutherland. Thurso-based contractor O’Brien Construction will build the research centre in the Flow Country, a vast area of peatland in Scotland's Far North.

Biggar Primary School The completion of a sustainably-built primary school in South Lanarkshire has been marked with an official ‘handover’ ceremony.

Work on a £15 million mixed-use transformation of a former Dundee college will start towards the end of the year after councillors gave their backing for the development. Property developer Whiteburn Projects said its innovative Vox Dundee development will offer a “dynamic space to work, rest and