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A major infrastructure contract has been awarded to improve the vital South West A77 route. Wills Bros Civil Engineering Limited has won a £31.5 million construction contract to build the Maybole Bypass on the A77.

Infrastructure solutions company Costain has appointed Steve Carter as a project director in Aberdeen. Working within a 70-strong upstream team based at the firm’s offices in Carden Place, Mr Carter will help deliver offshore and onshore engineering projects across the lifecycle of oil and gas

Construction Scotland Innovation Centre (CSIC) and the Structural Timber Association (STA) have joined forces to support structural timber businesses across the UK to innovate and grow. The STA is a UK-wide trade body that represents over 600 timber businesses, from manufacturers and suppliers to de

A former Robertson Homes employee has been welcomed back and given the top job in the North region. Tim Metcalfe spent twelve years at the firm before a brief sojourn elsewhere.

A new finance scheme which could pave the way for the enabling infrastructure necessary to kick-start new development in Glasgow has been approved by the local authority. Glasgow City Council said the proposed Tax Incremental Finance (TIF) scheme, while smaller in size and level of investment, from

The recently published judgment of O’Farrell J in Swansea Stadium Management Co. Ltd v Swansea City and County Council ([2018] EWHC 2192 (TCC)) provides guidance on limitations of time clauses contained in collateral warranties and acts as a reminder that collateral warranties are ca

Glasgow’s first significant city centre build-to-rent (BTR) housing development will be delivered in the heart of Merchant City this summer. Property investment, letting and management specialist Tay Letting has been appointed to market the Candleriggs Court development.

A local property developer has announced the official launch of a new 97 home development in Dundee. D J Laing Homes has returned to the area, recently crowned Scotland’s best place to live, to start work on its latest development and follow the success of the 200 homes it built previously in

A decision on plans by the Trump Organisation to build hundreds of new homes in Aberdeenshire has once again been delayed by the local authority. Aberdeenshire Council said a planning application for 550 homes at the Menie Estate, near Balmedie, will now be considered later this year following the r

Clark Contracts has released a video of its team installing two gantry's on top of the towers at 55 Douglas Street to facilitate a spider crane which will assist with the delivery of steel work required for the extension to the building.

Glencoe’s new-look visitor centre this week welcomed its first guests after a major refurbishment to better tell the story of this world-renowned mountain landscape and National Nature Reserve, which is visited by hundreds of thousands of people every year.  Work took place over the winte

The National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) and the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) have jointly acquired the most ambitious and splendid surviving portrait of a member of the Adam family, the great eighteenth-century Scottish architectural dynasty. The portrait of James Adam (1732-94) by the Ital

Proposals for Edinburgh’s first purpose-built music venue in over a century have been recommended for approval. Planned to be situated behind the Royal Bank of Scotland’s historic home on St Andrew Square, The IMPACT Centre was given the green light by planner officers ahead of the City

An Edinburgh health and wellbeing charity has submitted detailed plans for the development of new ‘Garden Rooms’ adjacent to its existing Centre of Wellbeing in Craigmillar. Established in 1944, Thistle is an independent charity which provides support for people living with long term hea

The final stage of Highland Council’s West Link transport project is to commence following the award of the £10.1 million construction contract. Dingwall-based RJ McLeod (Contractors) Ltd has been awarded the contract to build the additional swing bridge and roundabout, with the associat