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Transport Scotland has announced its intention to award the construction contract for the next major section of the £3 billion A9 Dualling Programme to Balfour Beatty. Forms part of the £96 million project to dual the 9.5km of the A9 between Luncarty and Pass of Birnam, the deal is the second cons

Proposals for a mixed used development at Govan’s Graving Docks have been refused by council planners. ZM Architecture and developer New City Vision, which owns the site, unveiled plans in March last year to bring the site back into use after 40 years of dereliction with the creation of 750 homes

Artist’s impression of the Dunbeg Development Corridor Masterplan A major development of 300 affordable homes in Dunbeg has been approved by Argyll and Bute Council’s planning committee.

A global hotel group has announced plans to invest £32 million the redevelopment and expansion of its Edinburgh city centre hotel. UK and Ireland hotel group Jurys Inn and its owner Fattal Hotels aim to invest the sum in the redevelopment and expansion of the existing Jurys Inn Edinburgh hotel and

Eilidh Henderson The RIAS/Saint-Gobain Emerging Architect Award recognises the crucial role architects play in delivering a better world and encourages the great architects of the future at the outset of their careers. This year, the award went to Eilidh Henderson of Page\Park Architects for her ins

Planning and design consultancy Barton Willmore is are urging planners and developers to have their say and complete a survey to help influence the Planning (Scotland) Bill. Barton Willmore, who recently expanded its operation in Scotland with the opening of an office in the centre of Glasgow, have

Jon Stinson and Julio Bros Williamson, research fellows in the Institute for Sustainable Construction at Edinburgh Napier University, believe that smarter, better, faster – homes built in a factory benefit everyone. The methods we use to build homes in the UK are constantly evolving.

Young people with charity Action for Children have visited Morrison Construction’s £18.9 million Wallyford Primary School project as part of a four-week employability programme. Action for Children works with youth to help them overcome disadvantage, including providing employability support in p

CBRE establishes Alternative Property team in Scotland Global real estate advisor CBRE has established its Hotels and Alternative Operational Real Estate offering in Scotland, with the hire of hotel specialist Jonathan Mitchell who joins the Hotels team as an associate director alongside experienced

Police have launched a criminal investigation into the demolition of a historic Dundee mill. The derelict Halley’s Mill, built in 1836, was demolished by Craigie Estates in May out of safety concerns.

Transport Scotland is inviting tenders for two new road maintenance contracts worth over £930 million. The procurement process for the next generation of South West and South East Unit contracts was formally notified with the issue of the Prior Information Notices (PINs) to the Official Journal of

Balfour Beatty has won a £67 million deal to modernise and extend the University of Edinburgh’s School of Biological Sciences at the Kings Building’s campus. The contract will see the 11-storey Darwin Tower refurbished and re-clad using a double-skin cladding system to improve

The proposed East Kilbride Community Growth Area (CGA) has received a funding boost from the £1.13 billion Glasgow City Region City Deal.

Leo Quinn Balfour Beatty has outlined a commitment to reduce work undertaken onsite by 25% by 2025.

Image credit SPT The redevelopment of Partick Bus Station by Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) is now complete after 11 months of construction with the facility scheduled to open on September 2.