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Quantity surveying and commercial management consultancy Soben has strengthened its senior team to focus on group growth. Andrew Gallacher has been promoted to the role of UK & Europe managing director, and Ian Tucker takes the role of operations director – the position previously held by

Southside Housing Association has submitted plans for a 120-flat development in Pollokshields. Set to replace the existing five and six-storey 1960s blocks of flats, the properties would form phases two and three of the masterplan for the St Andrew’s Drive, Shields Road, Maxwell Drive and St J

Hadden Group has appointed Tommy Devlin to the role of general manager for Hadden Homes. Managing director Steven Brady welcomes Tommy Devlin to the business

Fife-based housebuilder Muir Homes has achieved its most successful year of house sales in six years.

Eildon Housing’s plans to deliver more green homes in the Borders moved another step closer this week. The first of three Passivhaus homes at Springfield Place in St Boswells will complete in March and a further ten-home development at Westruther has secured planning permission.

The main phase of construction work to take Edinburgh’s trams to Newhaven will begin on Leith Walk next month.

A council was forced to delay the reopening of Victorian toilets - because urinals were four inches too high.

A company set up to deliver a number of new schools and community centres in North Lanarkshire which sued a construction company over defects in the development of one of the building projects has been granted a court order to enforce an adjudicator’s decision in its favour.

A proposal to transform Granton Waterfront into a new coastal town with 3,500 new homes has been published by the City of Edinburgh Council.

Plans for a new footbridge over the Forth & Clyde Canal near Maryhill have been given the go-ahead.

Scottish timber company BSW Timber has been acquired by Leeds-based private equity firm Endless for an undisclosed sum after more than 170 years of family ownership.

Specialist construction solutions supplier Groundforce has appointed Paul Donovan as its new managing director for the UK and Ireland. Paul had previously been managing director at the Vp plc temporary roadway business TPA, where he was responsible for overseeing the diversification of the business

Morris & Spottiswood’s strategic development director, Viv Sutherland, argues that the Brexit Transition Period is of vital importance to the UK construction sector. Brexit may have slipped down the news agenda for the moment, but the importance of the next few months to the future of the

Morgan Sindall is anticipating another strong year of growth driven by construction and partnership housing after group revenues topped £3 billion for the first time last year. Chief executive John Morgan said the group continued to make significant strategic and operational progress throughou

A £375 million capital programme for the next five years highlights Dundee City Council’s commitment to slash its carbon footprint and improve the sustainability of its buildings, the local authority said today.