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Glasgow City Council has agreed to use property assets to secure loans towards funding the local authority’s £548 million equal pay settlement. Last month, the council and the equal pay claimant group represented by Action4Equality, Unison, GMB and Unite reached an agreement in principle

St Andrews Links Trust has unveiled plans to bring a range of head office functions and operational services under one roof with its new headquarters at the Home of Golf. The 1,200 sq-metre facility, will provide St Andrews Links Trust with a two-storey building that once completed will serve as an

A two-year renovation project on the landmark railway bridge over the River Clyde on the approach to Glasgow Central is set to get under way, Network Rail has announced. ‘New Clyde Bridge’, which was built between 1899-1905 as part of the Edwardian expansion of Glasgow Central, links Sco

An enhanced West Dunbartonshire design standard for new affordable homes has been approved by councillors. The new policy will introduce a host of additional requirements for every new build home.

Plans have been lodged for a residential development in the Fife village of Guardbridge. McHale Enterprises is seeking planning permission in principle for up to 60 homes on land adjacent to Motray Park alongside associated works including car parking, landscaping, drainage and formation of new acce

Mick Schou Rasmussen has been appointed as new managing director to lead Velux Company Ltd’s roof window business from its UK headquarters in Fife. Work on a £7 million expansion at the company’s UK and Ireland head office building at Woodside Way in Glenrothes got under way last m

Three new galleries at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh will open to the public tomorrow, completing a 15-year £80 million redevelopment. The transformation returns one of the finest Victorian buildings in Britain to its former glory, creating vibrant new public spaces and revealin

Plans to create modern homes in Girvan for the local travelling community are now under way. Seven chalet style bungalows are being built, with the project due to be completed later this year.

GRAHAM has teamed up with training provider TIGERS to help deliver an event encouraging young women to consider careers in construction. The event, which was held at the TIGERS Skills Training Academy, encompassed live demonstrations of work tasks and opportunities for students from schools across G

Family-run business Hard Rock Scaffolding has taken a five year lease on Unit 4D Barham Road at Forties Commercial Campus in Rosyth. The 3,163 sq ft property comprises a mid-terrace steel portal frame warehouse.

An English multi-millionaire is seeking to buy a mountain in Scotland for £12 million in order to carve faces into it in the style of Amercian landmark Mount Rushmore. But the proposed cliff face design would not feature the faces of a monarch or statesman, and instead the faces of his own fam

A long-established Dundee-based construction company has been placed in administration after falling victim to the loss of McGill & Co. Land & Building Services Limited has ceased trading with immediate effect, and all 27 staff have been made redundant.

A former architecture employee has admitted carrying out an armed robbery on a Dundee bookmakers six weeks after losing his job, a court has heard. Nathan Ritchie had been working for a practice in Dundee – but was made redundant last summer without a severance package.

Interserve has agreed principles of a debt for equity rescue deal with its lenders, the firm announced this morning. The deleveraging plan involves the issuing of £480 million worth of new shares and transferring £350m of existing debt to Interserve’s RMD Kwikform business, wh

Design and fit-out specialist Havelock International is to bring in reduced hours and four-day working weeks as part of a new ‘sustainable manufacturing’ plan aimed to boost growth. The firm, which was rescued after Havelock Europa was bought out of administration by Rcapital in July, em