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Funding for skills and economic development across the South of Scotland has been announced by rural economy secretary Fergus Ewing. Through the South of Scotland Economic Partnership (SOSEP), the former Johnston school building in Kirkcudbright, which is currently lying empty, will be transformed i

Development company S Harrison has submitted a planning application to give another disused site in West Edinburgh a new lease of life as a student accommodation scheme, less than two weeks after unveiling plans for a nearby site on Gorgie Road. This latest development will offer 394 bedrooms, inclu

The first of a series of collaborative workshops to explore ways to increase offsite construction of affordable homes has been launched at Construction Scotland Innovation Centre (CSIC) by housing minister Kevin Stewart.

King’s Quarter – one of Edinburgh’s highest-profile, mixed-use regeneration projects – has reported ‘excellent’ sales progress, as it gears up for completion by the end of the summer. 

Taylor Wimpey East Scotland has announced that pre-construction and the enabling works for a development of 295 new homes at its Spencer Fields development in Inverkeithing will officially start from 6 May 2019.

Self-driving trucks which could help speed up roadworks are being tested for the first time in England on the UK’s biggest road upgrade. The dump trucks, which move huge amounts of earth, have the potential to work around the clock, so could help reduce the length of time roadworks are on the

Plans to transform one of Edinburgh’s most important landmark buildings into a global visitor experience for Scotch whisky brand Johnnie Walker have been recommended for approval by planners at the City of Edinburgh Council. The planning application, jointly submitted by drinks giant

Scotland is to go greener, faster with world-leading targets in order to stop contributing to climate change within a generation under new, tougher climate change proposals.

Private housing workloads are upholding growth in the Scottish construction sector, despite political uncertainty, but supply is still falling short, according to the RICS UK Construction and Infrastructure Market Survey, Q1 2019.

Major plans to transform Dumbarton’s oldest building into a state of the art library and museum will be considered by councillors next month. The ambitious proposal would also see the existing library at Strathleven Place become a community collections store and archive where the public could

The inaugural National Construction Skills & Innovation Summit, held at City of Glasgow College, confronted the challenges and opportunities which exist in an increasingly competitive and technologically disrupted industry. Presentations, panel discussions and demonstrations centred on

The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) has today set out its plans to help the industry meet critical skills challenges and secure its future workforce. CITB’s business plan for 2019-2021 responds to industry’s demands for it to become more strategic and better focused.

The number of new homes registered by the UK’s housebuilders and developers in the first three months of the year reached more than 37,500 – a 3 per cent increase on the same period in 2018. 37,672 new homes were registered to be built compared to 36,508 last year. The private sector was

The first three months of this year saw house prices in Aberdeen (city and suburbs) drop by 4.3 per cent from the final quarter of last year, according to latest data published in a new report from Aberdeen Solicitors’ Property Centre.

A comprehensive new range of high quality PVCu windows and doors tailored exclusively to the needs of the trade market in Scotland is now available with the launch of CMS Trade.