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To coincide with International Construction Management Day the Chartered Institute of Building has released its Craft Your Future lessons on all versions of Minecraft. As part of the CIOB campaign to attract the next generation of constructors it has developed ‘vanilla’ versions of Craft Your Fu

Scotland’s construction industry generated total output of £14.5 billion last year, a modest decline on record output of £14.7bn during 2015, according to new official figures issued today by the Office for National Statistics. Output from the housing, private commercial and repair and maintenan

Planners in Aberdeen have approved plans for a 374-bed student accommodation development on John Street. The scheme, prepared by Fletcher Joseph Associates, is a high-quality development of an empty brownfield site, left derelict following the demise of an originally approved hotel scheme set out by

ScotRail Alliance has appointed a design team to work on a new look for Inverness Station prior to tenders for the construction work being invited in autumn 2017. Mott Macdonald will produce detailed designs around how the station’s frontage, forecourt and concourse will look when the £6 million

Finance director Ian Murdoch (left) and chief executive Chris Endsor Miller Homes is aiming to grow annual sales volumes in Scotland by at least one-third by 2020 with a focus on the Central Belt.

The north-east public have picked their favourite design for a new wedding and corporate venue which have been on display at Bon Accord centre as part of an exhibition by Robert Gordon University (RGU) architecture students. Nearly 700 votes were cast over the last week, with Magdalena Wloczka’s d

Image by James F Stephen Architects Scottish Autism is planning to open a new residential service in Alloa for adults with autism.

An application to develop a floating wind farm off the coast of Aberdeenshire has been approved by Scottish Government ministers. The green light has been given to Kincardine Offshore to build the world’s largest floating wind array, consisting of up to eight 6MW semi-submersible turbines, which w

The number of building apprentices registered in Scotland rose by 6% to 1,778 last year according to new figures from the Scottish Building Apprenticeship and Training Council (SBATC), the body responsible for registering construction apprentices throughout Scotland. Published to coincide with this

(from left) Bethany Greig, apprentice administrator; Keith Brown, cabinet secretary for economy, jobs and fair work; Andy Mallice, managing director, Robertson Construction Scotland and Jack Goodfellow, apprentice business support administrator Robertson Group welcomed the cabinet secretary for econ

Pupils, staff and presenters at the Women in Construction 2017 presentation at Borders College Almost 90 girls aged 14-15 from secondary schools throughout the Borders attended a Women into Construction presentation at Borders College recently by a team from construction and residential development

Funding boost means green light for £5m High Street library Work to build a new £5 million library in an empty unit on Paisley’s High Street will start this year – in the latest stage of the push to use culture to breathe new life into Paisley’s High Street.

Model railway enthusiasts and volunteers are being sought for an ambitious plan to lay a model railway track along Scotland's Great Glen. The bid, to be filmed for a TV show, involves laying 74 miles (119km) of track from Fort William to Inverness.

The £16.8 million project to revamp the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh has been hit by a delay due to complications with the planned construction programme. The National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) said the delay of the planned extension to its headquarters into East Princes Street Gardens,

Northern Ireland construction firm FP McCann is in advanced negotiations with Laing O’Rourke to buy its precast concrete manufacturing plant in Uddingston. It is understood that around 50 staff and assets at the site will be transferred across to FP McCann, and no jobs will be lost.