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RJ MacLeod has been awarded the construction contract as part of the £9.6 million Berriedale Braes project on the A9. The work will see the firm deliver improvements to the road alignment and the existing tight hairpin bend.

West Highland College UHI has lodged plans to create a new science and technology centre at its Fort William campus. Designed by Colin Armstrong Architects, the £14 million development will create a building of approximately 3400m2 on a 2.5-acre site on the Blar Mor, adjacent to the planned ne

Calls against complacency have been sounded regarding the potential impact of a ‘no deal’ Brexit after the UK construction sector recorded an all-time high in rise in output. Construction output figures published today by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that UK output grew

A former psychiatric hospital in Dumfries is to be converted into a five-star hotel following the sale of the site. NHS Dumfries and Galloway has agreed to sell Crichton Hall and surrounding grounds to the owners of the Fonab Castle Hotel in Pitlochry.

Perth-based housebuilder A&J Stephen has warned it expects to lose money in the current financial year due to delays in development sites coming forward. The family firm, which currently has developments in Perth, Glenfarg, Inverness and the outskirts of Aberdeen, trebled its profits last year.

Brodies partner Charles Livingstone considers more competition law breaches by construction companies and the results of a survey by the CMA.

Work has started on two projects which will provide 60 new affordable housing in Edinburgh. The homes – 19 for mid-market rent in Morrison Crescent and 41 for social rent in Beaverbank Place – are being built for Dunedin Canmore, part of Wheatley Group, by Glasgow-based contractor and ma

The public are being invited to view latest proposals by Hallhill Developments Limited for a residential and recreational development at Hallhill in Dunbar. Since commencing in 1999, the Hallhill landholding has delivered around 1,000 houses with approximately 300 currently under development.

Critical repairs on the Caledonian and Union Canals will commence next week. Scottish Government funding, including an additional allocation of £5.35 million, was made available to Scottish Canals in November 2018.

The ultimate tea cosy, made of glass wool insulation, will be put the test against a traditional tea cosy in a Facebook Live video on Thursday 17 January at 10am.

The company that was prevented from progressing plans for Scotland’s first purpose-built film and TV studio on the outskirts of Edinburgh has submitted plans to deliver the facility at a new location. PSL Land, the team behind the thwarted Pentland Studios project, has now shifted its attentio

A pedestrianised roof could be installed over the M8 in Glasgow under new plans being progressed by the local authority. The proposal would see a cover decked over a section of the motorway at Charing Cross to reconnect the city centre to the West End.

The activity of housebuilder Barratt Developments over the past year has delivered a £227 million boost to the UK economy, a new report revealed. The group, which includes both Barratt Homes and David Wilson Homes, has built 1,729 new homes in Scotland and supported more than 3,700 jobs during

An appeal against an Aberdeen City Council decision to reject a planning application for additional properties at a CALA Homes site has been upheld by the Scottish Government. The housebuilder’s plans to deliver 16 homes at its Craibstone development were rejected by the local authority last y

A new mobile-friendly website helped Scottish Construction Now to a record year in 2018 with daily newsletter subscribers increasing by almost 1,000 to just under 8,500 and website users jumping by 6,000 a month — up from 39,000 to just over 45,000. The figures confirm Scottish Construction No