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KR Group has been shortlisted for two awards recognising its work on Macduff Marine Aquarium’s redevelopment.  The steel fabrication, cladding and sheet metal specialist, which is based in Newburgh, has been nominated in the Façade Awards UK 2026, in the Best Use of a Rainscreen Sy

A free resource pack designed to help construction workers recognise when a colleague may be struggling, begin a conversation about suicide, and know what action to take next has been introduced by the British Standards Institution (BSI). 

Designs for Falkirk’s new Town Hall will go on public display on 27 October for the first time, giving local residents the opportunity to influence the proposals. 

A CITB report has found regional disparities in construction apprenticeship opportunities, with Scotland having fourfold the amount of construction apprenticeship starts per 1,000 workers as London. 

Glasgow's Argyle line and Central Low Level station will undergo improvement work delivered by Network Rail engineers for two weekends later in October.  On 24 and 25 October, work will go ahead and will also take place on 31 October and 1 November.  

A council-commissioned housing development in Coulsdon, South London, has been awarded the UK's most prestigious architecture award, with St Andrew’s Drive in Glasgow missing out on a housing prize. Designed by Mary Duggan Architects with RUFFArchitects, Lion Green Road won this year's Stirlin

Taylor Wimpey East Scotland volunteers recently volunteered at the Community Woods and Garden in Polbeth and West Calder.  The volunteering arrives at a time when work is getting underway at Limefield Grove, which is the most recent development of Taylor Wimpey East Scotland in the local area.

More than 50 new South Lanarkshire Council homes have been completed at Landsdale in East Kilbride, and tenants have started to move in.

A house shaped like a UFO in Idyllwild, California, known as the ‘Donaldson Futuro,’ has now gone on the market for $1.495 million. 

Nearly nine in ten construction professionals say labour shortages are having a negative effect on projects, the most recent Market Report from the international property and construction consultancy Gleeds has found.  Skills shortages are having either a moderate or severe effect on project de

Output across the UK construction sector is estimated to have fallen by 1.0% in the three months to August 2026 -  the second consecutive decrease in the three-monthly series. New figures out today from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) found that both new work and repair and m

An Abertay University student has helped RADIX form a stronger understanding of the carbon impact of its operations through a research project which has prompted the development of a carbon calculator.  Emir Tashbaev, who is studying MSc Geotechnical Engineering, worked with the ground screw an

The B999/Shielhill Road junction in Aberdeen is undergoing improvement works this week. Improvements on the junction itself, removing the tight bend on the B999, and widening verges on Shielhill Road form part of the planned works.

A new charter to encourage construction businesses to move from awareness to action on mental health has been launched by former England footballer Trevor Steven, with Balfour Beatty, VolkerStevin, Graham Group and Sisk among its early adopters. Launched on World Mental Health Day, the Mindflow Ment

In Q3 of this year, Aberdeen’s office take-up in Aberdeen ticked up again, as the city stayed on course to register its best year for deal activity of the last ten years, new figures from Knight Frank have shown. According to Knight Frank’s analysis, there was 326,801 square feet of offi