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A Highland developer in the self-build home sector has gone into administration with the loss of 17 jobs. Inverness-based Roy Homes Ltd, and its sister company Roy Homes Timber Frame Ltd, ceased trading this week amid “serious cash flow problems”.

A new housing development is planned for a Glasgow brownfield site which has been lying derelict for years. According to the Evening Times, the scheme could include hundreds of individually designed homes and flats, shops, a pub, restaurant, a hotel, leisure uses and open space.

Caledon House Planning permission has been granted for two separate student housing developments in Aberdeen, offering 817 beds of student accommodation between them.

Wick Community Campus (pic from Ryder Architecture) A much-delayed £48.5 million school campus in the Highlands has finally been handed over to the local authority.

Kintore House An Edinburgh office building is to be transformed into serviced apartments in a £6 million refurbishment backed by transport tycoon Ann Gloag.

Key partners involved in the development of the new Stirling Care Village got together to cut the first sods to mark the start of construction yesterday. The £35 million development, which is being built in the grounds of Stirling Community Hospital, is a joint venture between Stirling Council, NHS

The Department of Architecture at the University of Strathclyde has announced its first online continuing development (CPD) course entitled ‘Social Benefits of Innovative Lighting’. The multidisciplinary course consists of two videos on innovative lighting and its application. They were produced

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon presents the ICE People’s Choice Award to the winning team behind the Forth Road Bridge repair The reopening of the Forth Road Bridge has been voted by the public as the greatest civil engineering achievement of 2016.

Offshore wind on target to become lowest-cost, large scale clean energy source The cost of energy from offshore wind has fallen by 32 per cent since 2012 and is now below the joint UK government and industry target of £100 per megawatt hour (MWh) four years ahead of schedule, according to a new rep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys4_NtdPi8A Nineteen buildings were demolished in central China on Saturday in less than 10 seconds, marking the country’s largest building implosion project.

Detailed plans for a brownfield development of 125 homes at Gullane’s former Fire College have been submitted by CALA Management Ltd. Central to the proposals is the sensitive renovation of the landmark Henderson House, as well as on-site provision of 31 high-quality affordable homes which will be

Development site 17 at Dundee waterfront Plans are being drawn up to build a major new international games design studio in the heart of Dundee’s £1 billion waterfront development.

Gary Mappin The planning and development consultancy behind Edinburgh’s first new malt whisky distillery in 100 years has opened an office in Glasgow – its first outside London.

Artist’s impression of the new building, courtesy of Flanagan Lawrence Plans for a state-of-the-art music centre in the heart of St Andrews have been unveiled today by the University of St Andrews.

Construction and engineering recruitment specialists Contract Scotland scooped a major construction industry award last month at the inaugural UK Construction Investing in Talent Awards. Recognising that ‘construction is all about people’, a panel of HR and talent experts from inside and outside