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Natural stone specialists at Fyfe Memorials has issued a rallying call for Scottish Granite to be used in memorial headstones as reports show that over 95% of Scottish memorials are imported.

The curvilinear walls of the Cidade das Artes in Rio de Janeiro,  the cliff face walls of Kengo Kuma’s V&A Dundee, and the three sails of the Richard Meier designed Jubilee Church, just outside Rome, all have one thing in common - concrete.

A consortium led by infrastructure and renewable energy solutions provider Acciona is to deliver an energy-from-waste (EfW) plant in Aberdeen, it has been confirmed.

Property, construction and infrastructure consultancy Pick Everard has cemented its commitment to Glasgow with the appointment of a new director and investment in larger premises within the city. Following a strategic move to be closer to key clients and Glasgow’s city centre, the new 4,500 sq

Morgan Sindall Construction has been appointed to deliver two new education projects for the Highland Council worth a combined £2 million.  The main contractor will deliver an 800 square metre expansion to Inverness Gaelic Primary School (Bun-sgoil Ghàidhlig Inbhir Nis), based to t

Keppie Design has concluded a trio of projects on the Orkney Islands with the delivery of the new £64 million Balfour Hospital.

James Gibb Residential Factors has acquired Life Property Management (lpm) in a significant deal to create Scotland’s second-largest factoring business.

Glasgow-based commercial property firm Murphy Young Property is expanding its portfolio of properties with the acquisition of an existing East Kilbride office development and construction of a new commercial trade park. The office development Arx House (formerly the East Kilbride Technology centre)

Building services experts at M-Pact Group have extended their growing track record as trusted high-end refurbishment specialists with the successful upgrade of the Gardener’s Cottage as a new facility for the music department at Heriot-Watt University.

A multi-million-pound renewables manufacturing contract has been signed which will see a ground-breaking new tidal turbine constructed in Dundee.

Ten of Taylor Wimpey’s site managers are celebrating having each won a prestigious national housebuilding award.

Whiteburn Projects will host the first of two public consultation events this month to update the local community of its plans for a residential development in Kirkcaldy. An aerial view of the Loughborough Road site

The Scaffolding Association became a supporter of mental health charity Mates in Mind this month in advance of International Suicide Prevention Day.

The Highland Council has appointed Geo-Rope Ltd to carry out rock scaling and netting works at the A890 Stromeferry Bypass. 

A collection of Los Angeles celebrities have been drafted in to make public announcements in the city’s airport to take the edge off the facility’s construction woes.