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Work on a £16.8 million extension to the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh began in earnest this week after the City of Edinburgh Council formally approved the planning applications. The National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) said the new extension will radically improve access to its world-clas

MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant: Fort Augustus & Glenmorriston Community Company

Inverclyde Council’s bid to demolish 430 flats on a Port Glasgow housing estate was based on “flawed”, “inadequate” and “tainted” assumptions, a judge has ruled. The tenement flats on the Clune Park estate, all of which are in private ownership, were identified by the council as its hi

Artist's representation of the National HVDC Centre Construction has started on a new technology centre in Cumbernauld that will test and de-risk the use of high voltage direct current (HVDC) on the electricity network in Great Britain.

Work will begin on a £10.7 million car park at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary in the next few weeks, NHS Grampian has confirmed. The 1,000-space parking facility, made possible by a £10m donation from the Wood Foundation, will take around 11 months to build.

Activity in the UK construction sector has continued its sustained reduction though the pace of decline was only marginal and much softer than the seven-year record seen during July, a new report has found. At 49.2 in August, the seasonally adjusted Markit/CIPS UK Construction Purchasing Managers’

A tradesman has been fined for using East Lothian Council's Trusted Trader logo when he was not a member of the scheme. Edward Grey, of East Coast Cladding, was fined £200 at Edinburgh Sheriff Court earlier this month after pleading guilty to claiming to be a signatory to a code of practice when he

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Humza Yousaf meets construction staff on site A spectacular aerial video has been released of the new M8 ‘missing link’ currently being constructed as part of the £500 million M8 M73 M74 Motorway Improvements Project.

A new eBuildingStandards system that streamlines applications through one web portal has gone live. eBuildingStandards follows the launch of the improved ePlanning service in January, and signals the latest development in streamlining public services in the digital age. This new service makes it qui

Work begins on next phase of Aberdeen council housing programme Aberdeen City Council has broken ground on a £13.5 million housing development at Manor Walk.

Entrepreneurs based at the Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation (ECCI) will appear on hit BBC series Dragons’ Den this Sunday to pitch their low carbon invention to the millionaire investors. Artur Napiórkowski and Denny Schenk won a place in ECCI’s Low Carbon Ideas Lab earlier

MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant: Wildland Limited

Hundreds of small to medium-sized construction and property firms are said to be benefitting from increased workloads as the value of construction work linked to the Scotland-wide ‘hub’ programme has increased to more than £1 billion. Figures published today by the Scottish Futures Trust (SFT)

Utility firm Centrica has selected Carillion to deliver facilities management and project services in a contract worth £90 million. Extending its partnership with the British Gas owner, the deal will see Carillion work with Centrica for a further five years, which can be extended to seven.