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Civil engineering firm McGowan Infrastructure Ltd has achieved key milestones in its substation and underground cable route project for Freedom Group in Inverness.

Plans to build 175 homes at Craigie Hill Golf Club, alongside the reconfiguration of the golf course and the creation of a new sports and community hub, have been submitted to Perth and Kinross Council.

The UK government is to establish a new body which aims to tackle delays in infrastructure development. The new National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority (NISTA) will bring infrastructure strategy and delivery together to address the systemic delivery challenges that the governmen

Investor confidence in the stability of prime asset pricing is growing, according to research by Lismore Real Estate Advisors. Nearly two-thirds (65%) of investors believe pricing as "found its level", with nearly 90% of funds and investment managers sharing this view, according to an investor surve

Plans have been submitted to rebuild five terraced houses in East Kilbride that were destroyed by fire last year. The proposal by Sedgwick International aims to reconstruct the Whitelee properties in a similar style to their original form, with two central 1.5-storey homes and three two-storey prope

Perth and Kinross councillors have approved plans for 29 homes on the site of the former Gartwhinzean Hotel in Powmill. Kera Scotland Ltd submitted the proposal for a mix of two- and three-bedroom homes, including seven affordable houses, on the site of the hotel, which was demolished after a devast

The JR Group has given its support to a number of local community groups and schools around Hawick.

Construction companies in West Lothian have pledged to rally round each other amid challenging times for the sector.

City Building has opened a new wellness room to support the mental wellbeing of its employees.

Clark Contracts has been re-appointed to Scotland Excel’s £1.5 billion New Build Residential Construction Framework. The contractor has been appointed to all five lots of the framework which covers both the traditional build and design and build, of various sizes of housing developments

Taylor Wimpey West Scotland has donated £11,000 to St Vincent’s Hospice in Johnstone from its staff and charities committee. St Vincent’s Hospice, located in Howwood, Renfrewshire, aims to provide access to the best  possible care and support to everyone living with a lif

A conservation charity has decried a proposal from Netflix to erect a plaque in Edinburgh marking a location loosely related to a series it released earlier this year.

New national occupational standards for tunnelling and chimney work have been introduced by the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB). CITB, the body that sets the standards for the construction industry, worked with TunnelSkills, the national specialist training group for the UK tunnelling se

Aberdeen-headquartered 3t Training Services has been awarded £200,000 from the Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB) to help it build three mobile training units which will be used to deliver training across the engineering construction industry.

A ceremony has been held to mark the start of construction for a new medical and dental centre at Leuchars Station in Fife. The construction contract, worth nearly £22 million, was awarded by the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) to GRAHAM last year.