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A new proposal has emerged for an F1-style racing circuit based on the Albert Park Circuit in Melbourne at a site on the East Lothian coast.

Unite Scotland is calling on the Scottish Government to instruct construction companies not linked to essential services to close with immediate effect after being informed of hundreds of construction workers travelling across Scotland potentially leading to cross-country infections.

Output in the UK construction sector rose past pre-pandemic levels for the first time, according to new figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

An application for planning in principle to transform Midlothian Snowsport Centre into an all-year-round, multi-activity leisure facility has been approved by councillors.

Plans for a new University of St Andrews 681-bedroom student accommodation complex overlooking the East Sands at Albany Park have been approved by Fife Council.

Plans for a new £64.3 million state-of-the-art health and care centre for the North East of Glasgow have now been submitted to the local authority.

Glasgow City Council yesterday approved its Strategic Housing Investment Plan for the city over the 2021-26 period, a time which will see £469.71 million affordable housing supply programme grant funding made available with the aim of building an additional 4,400 affordable homes.

hub South West has added Kilmarnock-based Hugh LS McConnell to its supply chain framework as a new Tier 1b Contractor partner. The inclusion on the supply chain framework empowers the business to bid for hub South West refurbishment projects up to £10 million throughout Ayrshire, Dumfries &

Construction has completed on East Lothian’s newest primary school and the building is due to be formally handed over to the council today.

Glasgow-headquartered global provider of mobile, modular power, temperature control and energy services Aggreko has announced an upgrade of its production facility in Dumbarton, with an investment totalling £4.5 million.

Work to create a Centre of Excellence for elective orthopaedic surgery at Inverclyde Royal Hospital is now under way.

Kirkwood Homes is seeking permission to build 284 new homes at the northern border of Aberdeenshire and Aberdeen. The development will be located at Blackdog, just south-east of the Aberdeen bypass roundabout that links to the A92 Aberdeen to Blackdog road.

Kingdom Housing Association has appointed Smith Scott Mullan Associates to its framework for architect and multi-discipline design team services.

A joint bilateral review report into enhanced cooperation and collaboration between Scotland and Ireland has earmarked construction and renewable energy as two of the most promising sectors in the economic relations between the two countries. Published yesterday by minister for foreign affairs, Simo

Construction materials supplier Aggregate Industries has appointed Andy Swinnerton as the new managing director of the firm’s Aggregates division. Andy will now join the Aggregate Industries’ executive committee and will be responsible for spearheading growth of the Aggregates busin