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Dundee City Council has approved plans to convert The Hotel Broughty Ferry into flats.

Climate change secretary Roseanna Cunningham has announced that the Scottish Government will not be publishing the Climate Change Plan update at the end of April. The decision has been taken in light of the coronavirus outbreak.

A well-known office building in the heart of Edinburgh has traded in a deal worth more than £5 million.

A new virtual fitness club has been set up by the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) for its members and staff to maintain their fitness, actively improve their mental health and stay connected to others while social distancing. 

Galliford Try has joined other major construction groups in cancelling its interim dividend as it prepares to see out the fallout caused by COVID-19.

The City of Edinburgh Council has written to contractors delivering all non-essential, council-led construction across the capital to follow national guidance issued by the Scottish Government.

Works have been completed on a full-scale renovation and fit-out project transforming the former Ducati building on Glasgow’s Great Western Road into a new hairdressing salon.

Oberlanders Architects has promoted Holly Small to the role of practice manager and Mark Rego to the role of BIM manager/laboratory planning specialist. The practice said the promotions reflect its “ongoing commitment to provide opportunity for individual growth and expansi

Scotland’s first purpose-built justice centre in Inverness opens today.

The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) is conducting a survey to identify firms across the sector capable of providing vital service and maintenance for the NHS at short notice.

Gilson Gray has accelerated its recent expansion into Dundee by merging with local property firm, Wallace and Co Property Management. The addition of Wallace and Co Property Management will see the transfer of local property experts Elaine Wallace, Pauline Traill and Derek Tyson to the Gilson Gray P

Looking to a post-pandemic work environment, Bruce Kennedy talks about designing workplaces that inspire creativity, celebrate our collective humanity and allow us to thrive. As a designer of workplaces, I’m fascinated by the adaptability of millions of people around the world as they embrace

Shepherd Chartered Surveyors has called for rating appeals to be lodged and ideally to be backdated to March 4 as a result of a material change of circumstances arising from the coronavirus pandemic. The firm is currently working flat out lodging new appeals against rating assessments on the basis t

Unlisted tenement buildings deemed too expensive to maintain could soon be demolished to make way for temporary soft landscaping under plans submitted by the University of Dundee. The four-storey block at 16-18 Airlie Place, which sits within the city campus conservation area, was previously used as

Plans have been submitted to build a five-storey residential development on the site of a commercial unit just off Morningside Road in Edinburgh.