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A £100 million spending programme designed to improve communities and services has been outlined by Falkirk Council for the next three years. The capital programme, which will see continuation of existing projects as well as new ones started, was announced yesterday as the local authority agreed it

Image courtesy of Flickr user David P A new agreement will see Scotland and the North of England agree to work closer together to improve transport connectivity.

Lesley Laird Fife Council is calling for clarity on planning policy around fracking in Scotland after concerns were raised over proposals to remove councils from the decision-making process.

CECA Inspiring Change winners and sponsors at the Parliamentary event Graham Construction has won the prestigious ‘Inspiring Change in the Workplace’ award from the Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA) for promoting Fairness, Inclusion and Respect (FIR).

Keppie and Hoskins health and care centre opens in Northern Ireland Keppie Design and Hoskins Architects have opened the doors to a £15 million health centre in Ballymena, Northern Ireland.

China has launched its biggest search for aliens yet, which will uproot more than 9,000 people to build the world's largest telescope. Work on the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) began in 2011 and is expected to finish in September.

Craig Robertson Glasgow based building fit-out firm Morris & Spottiswood is to target maintenance contracts across the North of England with its round the clock emergency repair service.

South Lanarkshire Council has granted planning permission for a £15 million mixed used development in Rutherglen. To be located on land adjacent to Junction 2 of the M74 motorway, the Two74 development will comprise of an anchor retail store, a retail terrace, drive-thru restaurant and two family r

An urban flooding project to tackle the deficiencies in Glasgow's drainage system and allow the building of 22,000 new homes on previously unviable brownfield sites has been received a funding boost. The Glasgow City Region City Deal Cabinet has approved £3.17 million of funding towards the next st

The owners of the Port of Dundee are to invest more than £10 million to create a new quayside with an industry-leading “heavy lift” capability and a significant onshore operational area. The privately funded investment will result in the development of the quayside at the East end of the port,

Ryder Architecture has been appointed by the Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice to implement the detailed design and delivery phase of its new building in Glasgow. After 18 months of fundraising by the hospice, enabling works are now underway, with the project expected to start on site in June.

Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) has been awarded a contract that will see it play a key role in helping the construction industry get up to speed with Scottish Government protocols in Building Information Modelling (BIM). BIM is essentially a computer-generated model containing graphical and tab

Activity in the UK construction sector rose for the eleventh consecutive quarter in Q4 led by growth across almost all areas of the industry though recruitment and labour problems persisted, according to new figures. Published today, the Construction Products Association’s latest Construction Trad

Scotland’s councils are to invest a further £56 million in energy saving LED street lighting over the next 12 months which will help reduce their energy consumption by over 50 per cent. Of the 900,000 existing street lights across Scotland, 125,000 new LEDs have already been installed, with that

Paralympic swimmer Andrew Mullen Mactaggart & Mickel to sponsor British Paralympian swimmer