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The £22.3m Diamond Bridge over the River Don opened two years ago A new bridge over the River Don is among a number of potentials options put forward by Aberdeen City Council aimed at improving transport links across the city.

A deal has been struck between landowner Simon Howie and waste to energy developer CoGen which removes any time constraints in which to deal with the planning application for the waste to energy plant adjacent to the A8 at Carnbroe in Coatbridge. Howie’s company Shore Energy received full panning

The Scottish Government has announced that it will establish an Infrastructure Commission to advise on which projects should be at the heart of its £7 billion national infrastructure investments plan. In her Programme for Government announcement in September, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon set out

(from left) Alan Cameron (director, Livingston Mechanical Services Ltd), Donald Bain (director, M&E and FM, Morris & Spottiswood), George Morris (chairman, Morris & Spottiswood), Fred Jamieson (managing director, Livingston Mechanical Services Ltd), Jon Dunwell (CEO, Morris & Spottis

(from left) Neil Jefferson (NHBC chief operating officer); Stuart Gillespie; Garry Henderson; Ian Welsh and Malcolm MacLeod (NHBC director Scotland) Three house building site managers were crowned winners in the Scotland finals of the NHBC Pride in the Job Awards 2018 at a ceremony held at The Hilto

Naeem Hussain © Malcolm Cochrane Photography Naeem Hussain, who led the illustrative concept and design of the Queensferry Crossing, is one of four engineers to join the Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame.

A96 dualling options on show Options that include the existing A96 Inverurie Bypass and the offline southern route between east of Huntly and Blackburn, which passes through the Bennachie Special Landscape Area, are amongst the options that have been removed following initial design and assessment w

Picture: Pimlico Plumbers The boss of a plumbing company has said he will not take down a giant "Bollocks to Brexit" sign on the roof of his headquarters in central London, even if it means going to prison.

Robin Webster OBE FRIAS Robin Webster has been elected the next President of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS).

East Renfrewshire Council has submitted £23 million plans to build five new nurseries in the region. The facilities, three of which will operate as family centres providing childcare for 50 weeks of the year, are planned to be open by August 2020.

(from left) Karen Shaw (business development manager at CCG), John Kerr (West Dunbartonshire Council’s housing development and homeless manager), Cllr Diane Docherty, convener of housing and communities, Calum Murray (director at CCG), and Cllr Caroline McAllister, vice convener of housing and com

Roof window manufacturer Velux has unveiled plans for a £7 million expansion to its iconic UK and Ireland head office building at Woodside Way in Glenrothes. A new customer service centre, training facilities, office space, meeting suite and a staff restaurant will be housed within a 3,500 metre ne

Royal Bank of Scotland has today officially released for sale its former office and data centre site at Dundas Street in the heart of Edinburgh’s New Town. Branded ‘New Town North’, the 5.89 acre plot is the largest site to be sold in the city for more than a decade and is expected

A deteriorating road-over-rail bridge which threatens the East Coast Main Line in Aberdeenshire will be demolished in the interest of safety. Abbeyton Bridge, on the B966 just north of Fordoun, was shut in July after inspections found serious failings in the 170-year-old structure, which continue to

Highland Council has submitted a planning application for a low head hydroelectric development at the Torvean Weir on the River Ness. Using an Archimedes screw, the hydroelectric scheme will have a generating capacity of up to 100kW and an average annual renewable energy output of approximately 600,