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Stranded ducklings have taken up residence in a Perth hospital after being given a home by kind-hearted hospital employees. Initially spotted by the cash office team at Murray Royal Hospital, colleagues stepped in to save the mother duck and her brood by transforming an outdoor courtyard into a duck

Councillors have unanimously rejected the latest plans to develop hundreds of flats at Aberdeen’s Rubislaw Quarry.

The National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS) has awarded the contract for the build of its new flagship facility at the heart of the Advanced Manufacturing Innovation District Scotland in Renfrewshire to Morrison Construction.

A joint venture owned by property entrepreneurs Bruce Linton and David Cameron has acquired north-east housebuilder Scotia Homes for an undisclosed sum. The Ellon firm said it had been acquired by Camlin Group, with the size of the majority stake also undisclosed.

The Scottish Government has asked planning authorities to be pragmatic in allowing requests to extend working hours on construction sites.

Construction site preparation works for Edinburgh’s Trams to Newhaven project will start today in line with the Scottish Government’s Phase 1 pre-start site preparation.

The Inverness West Link Stage 2 is to resume after works were suspended on March 24 following COVID-19 guidance from the Scottish Government.

New plans have been lodged with Glasgow City Council for a residential development and a new public garden in the city’s Finnieston area.

The Scottish Procurement Alliance (SPA) is building on the success of its framework offering and re-procuring four of is most successful frameworks. These are Schools and Community Buildings, Modular Buildings, Roofing and Doors. In the last financial year, 2019/20, SPA’s partners registered o

As Scotland’s building sector emerges from prolonged shutdown, the Construction Industry Coronavirus Forum (CICV Forum) has issued expanded health and safety guidance to help steer companies through the crisis and back to work.

Provisional analysis of clean infrastructure projects by the Scottish Trade Union Congress (STUC) has outlined the massive benefits of a government-funded green stimulus for Scotland, with a £13 billion investment creating almost 150,000 jobs and re-absorbing workers w

The UK's furlough scheme implemented to save jobs during the coronavirus crisis will finish at the end of October, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced. Mr Sunak said employers will have to start sharing the cost of the scheme. From August, employers must pay National Insurance and pension contribut

New guidance from PASMA is helping managers keep scaffold tower users safe during the coronavirus outbreak. The industry body has offered its advice on the challenges being faced by those responsible for the health and safety of tower users as they plan a return to work, whether they're off on a tra

Concept designs of the transformation of the Woodside area in Glasgow have been unveiled with the launch of a new website.

Ogilvie Construction is to construct the new Maryhill Community Custody Unit for the Scottish Prison Service but COVID-19 has delayed the start to site works.