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Construction work to build contemporary apartments on the site of the fire-hit Bervie Chipper in Stonehaven is underway, the developer has confirmed. Aberdeen-based development and investment firm West Coast Estates has appointed Burns Construction to undertake the £1.5 million project in Davi

Govanhill Housing Association is to progress improvements to its tenement housing stock in Glasgow with a large-scale renewals contract. A total of 126 of properties will have brand new kitchens installed by CCG Asset Management, the expert planned maintenance division of the CCG Group.

North Lanarkshire Council has unveiled plans to progress redevelopment proposals for two prominent sites in Monklands. An area of Bank Street in Coatbridge and the former Orrs building in Airdrie have, for a number of years, been identified as areas requiring redevelopment.

Legislation to support the establishment and capitalisation of the Scottish National Investment Bank has been published by the Scottish Parliament. The Bill grants the necessary powers to set up the Bank which will provide financing for businesses through their whole life cycle and fo

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Kier Construction Scotland hosted Fulton MacGregor MSP to its Scottish HQ at Stepps this week to hear about the work it is carrying out. Fulton MacGregor SNP MSP for Coatbridge and Chryston said: "I was delighted to visit Kier Construction Scotland’s newly refurbished HQ in Stepps today. 

A London-based banker has been awarded £500,000 in damages after successfully suing the architect he claimed did not deliver the “wow factor” when he built a home cinema suspended above an indoor swimming pool at his £7 million home. Philip Freeborn, a former head of operatio

Interserve has reported a pre-tax loss of £111.5 million for last year, improving on the £244.4m it lost in 2017. Results posted today by the troubled contractor show an improvement in underlying operating profit – up 10% from £84.5m in 2017 to £92.7m in 2018 – on

Architecture practice Hawkins\Brown has launched a dedicated Scottish studio this week, expanding its presence in the UK beyond existing studios in London and Manchester. The firm will celebrate the opening of Studio Scotland with a launch party and exhibition at The Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh

Construction firm Morris & Spottiswood has strengthened its senior management team with two new appointments. The £100 million turnover company has hired Scott Grant and Paul Tutty to drive the firm’s Leeds and Edinburgh offices respectively.

A consortium led by Acciona has been named as preferred bidder for an energy-from-waste (EfW) plant in north-east Scotland. The £150 million Ness Energy project is a joint scheme for Aberdeen City Council, Aberdeenshire Council and Moray Council. It will take non-recyclable waste from the thre

Scottish Power has revealed plans to spend up to £2 billion in the UK during 2019, its biggest ever investment in the country in a single year. The announcement came as the company updated its investment plans following the sale of its thermal generation business and transition to 100% renewab

A major milestone has been reached in Heriot-Watt University’s new £19 million Global, Research, Innovation and Discovery (GRID) project. Construction work on the state-of-the-art project has now been completed by building contractors Bowmer & Kirkland allowing the university to

The accountancy watchdog has announced an expansion of its probe into KPMG’s audit of Carillion for the second time. The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) says it will now look into work on the collapsed contractor’s 2013 accounts but it did not say why it has wi

The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has called for the Scottish Government to prioritise alternative solutions, including self-build, in order to boost supply and affordability. According to the latest Housing Statistics for Scotland, the Scottish housing market’s chronic undersu