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Pupils, teachers and local councillors in Airdrie have celebrated key milestones at the sites of two new joint campus primary schools which are being delivered by Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastructure. The first school taking shape on Petersburn Road will provide a new home for Petersburn

The ground has officially broken at Carskeoch Drive, Patna, where CCG (Scotland) Ltd is building 19 new homes for rent for strategic partner East Ayrshire Council. The site, which was previously occupied by Patna Resource Centre, will deliver high quality, energy efficient homes in a range of sizes

Homebuilder CALA Homes (North) Ltd has welcomed two talented university graduates to its Westhill team. Gemma Rickaby and Katie McGill, both 22, secured their jobs through CALA’s two-year graduate scheme and are now firmly part of the homebuilder’s sales and marketing, and land and plann

Staff at a new care home put out the welcome mat for the arrival of its first resident today, none other than Glasgow retail tycoon, Gerald Weisfeld.

Three-dimensional traffic calming measures are to be piloted in Singapore. Adopted from Japan, the 3D markings are intended to encourage motorists to reduce their speed because of the perceived narrower lane width.

Scotland Excel has published the Invitation to Participate (ITP) for its four-year New Build Residential Construction Framework – and companies now have five weeks to submit their request to participate. The ITP for the framework, which is the organisation’s largest ever contract opportu

A Port of Leith industrial building has been identified as the home of a major Scottish film and television studio as developers are invited to refurbish and operate the facility. National film body Screen Scotland has today launches a tender process inviting proposals from private developers to lea

Drum Property Group has submitted revised design proposals in support of its planning application to transform a major section of Leith Walk in Edinburgh. The revised proposals follow detailed discussions with the City of Edinburgh Council’s planning team after the main planning application wa

Sound alerts for evacuation in high rise buildings and extending the mandatory installation of sprinklers in new flats are among a raft of new safety measures to be introduced next year in Scotland in response to the Grenfell Tower tragedy. The new building standards legislation will also reduce the

RFM Construction Ltd, part of integrated property service provider RFM Group, has strengthened its senior management team with the strategic appointment of Leigh Edmondson as managing director. In his role Leigh is tasked with developing and growing the business which forms part of the group’s

Commercial real estate consultant Cushman & Wakefield has appointed Colin Clement as its new head of project and development services in Scotland. Clement joins from Currie & Brown, formerly Sweett Group, where he was regional director of project management. Prior to that he headed up his ow

LDN Architects and Robertson Northern have revamped Victorian school buildings in Inverness to deliver a creative hub for the region’s artistic talent. Providing urgently needed studios for everyone from photographers and textile designers to an artist who knits glass, the opening of the Inver

Financial close has been reached for a £2.6 billion project that is expected to reduce the cost of offshore wind energy generation by nearly 60%. Moray Offshore Windfarm (East) Ltd, known as ‘Moray East’, will build a 950MW offshore wind farm in the Outer Moray Firth, 40km from the

Springfield Properties has been granted planning permission for 57 new affordable homes in the Scottish Borders.  Scottish Borders Council has approved the developer’s proposals to build 57 homes just off Main Street in Chirnside next to the playing fields. 

The director of more than 90 successful capital appeals has been appointed to lead Paisley Museum’s £5 million fundraising campaign. Eric Grounds, who was responsible for a £35m campaign for Marie Curie and a £350m appeal for the defence National Rehabilitation Centre in Warw