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Supporting people into employment and equipping them with skills they need will be at the heart of the economic recovery, backed with £1.1 billion of investment under the proposed Scottish Budget 2021-22, economy secretary Fiona Hyslop has said.

The new Madras College in St Andrews is on schedule to welcome staff and pupils after the summer holidays in August, Fife Council has said.

A construction worker got a huge grimacing picture of Prime Minister Boris Johnson tattooed on his stomach to raise money for a friend’s life-saving cancer treatment. Kenny Wilding from Kidderminster raised £800 for family friend Megan Smith who has been referred to the US for

Seven years after it began, the long-running inquiry into the Edinburgh trams construction fiasco has now taken longer than the delayed network took to build.

The Scottish Government is set to scrap the Help to Buy scheme from this week after announcing it is no longer able to financially support the initiative.

Mark Cook has been appointed as a non-executive director at Story Homes, joining the housebuilder’s board from today. With over 40 years’ experience in the housebuilding industry, Mark joins Story from Persimmon Homes, where he spent over 27 years in various senior roles, including Mana

January was a record month for Scottish Construction Now with 164,216 unique visitors to its popular website.

Persimmon Homes has appointed its former director in charge, Neil Parry, as managing director with overall responsibility for the housebuilder's East Scotland business based in Bathgate. The team currently works across the City of Edinburgh, Stirling, Falkirk, East Lothian, Midlothian, Scottish Bord

Graham Findlay and Hamish Paterson promoted to regional directors by Thomas & Adamson. Mr Findlay joined in October 2006 as trainee M&E surveyor and since then has undertaken both project manager and cost consultant roles on a wide range of projects.

Two key Moray Growth Deal (MGD) projects worth almost £40 million are now inviting tender bids for detailed design work. The developments are included in the £100m MGD package, which is backed by £32.5m each from the Scottish and UK governments.

A leading surveyor has claimed that he is detecting serious safety defects on new housing estates in Scotland every week due to gaps within timber battens in cavity walls and poor workmanship. Greig Adams, founder of Adams Building Consultancy, said the breach in building standards means t

Four housing projects worth a total of £37.7 million have been awarded through Scotland Excel’s new build framework. Loreburn Housing Association in Dumfries has awarded two major projects to Ashleigh (Scotland) Ltd - a £4.8m project to build 27 homes in Annan and a £14.8m pr

Network Rail is to begin work shortly on a 10-month programme to deliver a £3 million investment to refurbish the non-glazed roofs of the grade A listed station in Stirling.

Regeneration work to convert a disused former power loom weaving mill in Arbroath into 24 affordable apartments is now complete, with the keys ready to be handed over to the first group of tenants.

Kingdom Housing Association has started work on 76 new affordable homes for social rent and mid market rent at Kingdom Park in Kirkcaldy.