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Offsite timber frame manufacturer Stewart Milne Timber Systems has entered into a ground-breaking partnership to deliver timber frames for more than 1,500 homes for major UK housing association L&Q.  The company, which has three manufacturing centres in the UK, will also support L

Persimmon has today released results showing profits exceeding £1bn for the first time. Annual profits jumped 13 per cent to £1.091bn at the housebuilder which was caught in a pay row last year and is under scrutiny over its continued involvement in the Help to Buy scheme.

Industry giant Balfour Beatty has been slapped with a £600,000 fine for health and failing failings that resulted in the death of an employee who was struck by a wheeled excavator on Aberdeen’s the Third Don Crossing project. On 13th January 2016, 58-year-old Ian Walker, a Balfour Beatty

Cala Homes (North) has submitted a planning application to Aberdeen City Council for the second phase of the homebuilder’s Craibstone Estate development.

Murray Estates Ltd, along with its development partners Taylor Wimpey West Scotland and Barratt Homes West Scotland, has confirmed that plans for the second phase of its multi-million pound development at Torrance Park in Holytown, have taken a significant step forward with the submission of a detai

More than half of housebuilders south of the border increased the rate at which they built new homes over the last year and predict a further rise over the next 12 months, according to a new survey published this week.

Kier Construction Scotland has completed the stunning multi-million-pound transformation of two historic buildings within the University of Edinburgh’s campus. Kier completed the £14m refurbishment of the Grade A Listed Edinburgh College of Art.

A retired couple from Cheshire who were were granted planning permission for a warehouse on their land have been told to tear the building down following a ten year planning stand-off that ended in it being determined that they had built the structure to be a home.

Riverside Inverclyde (Ri), the organisation delivering the economic redevelopment of Inverclyde, has welcomed Stewart & Shields, a long-established Helensburgh-based construction company, to 4,500 square feet premises at Kelburn Business Park in Port Glasgow. The units, which have been leased fo

The full Final Business Case (FBC) for extending Edinburgh's trams line to Newhaven has been published as part of papers for City of Edinburgh Council's upcoming Transport and Environment Committee later this month. 

Sentry Doors Holdings Limited (Sentry Doors) has announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with Cairngorm Capital Partners LLP (Cairngorm Capital), to accelerate its growth and consolidate its position as an industry leader in the timber fire and security door-set market.

The security of smart domestic appliances that can be managed remotely must be improved to better protect users' privacy, research suggests. Experts have identified steps that manufacturers could take to improve the products' security, in a market that is forecast to be worth £80bn by 2022.The

The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has urged the government to make urgent provision to avert potential workforce shortages in the event of a ‘no deal’ Brexit next month. It backs recommendations made by the Construction Leadership Council (CLC) to review the rules gove

The redesign of health and care services in Badenoch and Strathspey has taken another big step forward today with the approval of a planning application for permission to build the new Badenoch and Strathspey community hospital in Aviemore. The application relates to the land south of the former cal

Aberdeenshire Council is to seek views on a £71 million investment plan for a Peterhead Community Campus, which includes a state-of-the-art academy, and the potential to incorporate primary and special schools and nursery provision. A key aspect of the project will be enhanced cultural and spo