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Argyll and Bute Council has approved a planning application for a new fish processing facility on a disused brownfield site in Cowal. A total of £19 million will be invested in the construction project making a significant contribution to employment opportunities in the local area.

Stirling-based housebuilder Bett Homes has changed its name to Avant Homes. The company said the decision comes two years after its parent company became Avant Homes.

Denise Brown An Aberdeenshire painting and decorating firm has appointed a new finance director to its board.

Small and medium size businesses (SMEs) in the Glasgow and Clyde Valley area can find out for free how they might share in over a billion pounds worth of investment being delivered through the City Deal.

John Moore Esh Border Construction will be inviting potential partners to ‘Meet The Buyer’ next month in Uphall.

(from left): Lynn Stodart (CCG Group HR manager), Gerry McGinn (GMG Contractors managing director), Linda Sichi, (Milnbank Housing Association depute director), Gary McGregor (CCG, Group managing director), Annabelle Ewing (minister for youth & women's employment) There was cause for celebration

(from left) Jason McCall of Banks Renewables, Kathryn Saunders of Grontmij (Firm that assesses data extracted by Raeburn) and Anne Baxter of Raeburn Drillers Hamilton drilling firm wins work on two Lanarkshire wind farms

A 760 mph capsule-based transportation system which would connect London to Glasgow in as little as 30 minutes could be built in the UK, according to its developers. Speaking at BaseStone's Construct//Disrupt, an event held in London to explore the future of transportation technologies, the company

Architects have drawn up plans to redevelop the Port Edgar Marina into an exciting sailing destination along the Firth of Forth. GLM’s designs will see the construction of a new hub incorporating a restaurant, visitor’s centre and the marina’s yacht club and the redevelopment of the existing b

A Highland housing association has confirmed its intention to build over 700 affordable homes over the next five years. Albyn Housing Society will build 500 social rented, 100 mid-market rent and 125 new LIFT shared equity homes by 2020, growing its social rented estate by 20 per cent. It will also

Tata Steel's Clydebridge plant is set to close Communities and employees affected by the closure of Tata Steel plants in Scotland have been promised £1.5 million to help support the creation of new jobs.

A long-awaited report on proposals for a major retail development on Common Good land at Forres will go before members of Moray Council’s policy and resources committee next week. They will be asked to recommend to full council how, or if, the plans by Aberdeen-based Redco Milne for the land at Bo

An environmentally-friendly energy firm has unveiled plans to build an experimental green energy park at a former Scottish nuclear plant in Dumfries and Galloway. Scotia Global Energy said the hybrid power station intended to radically reduce carbon dioxide emissions, which would be built on a 90 he

Inception by Patrick Mouzawak 2014 Art of Building Photographer of the Year The renowned built environment photography prize run by the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) is now open for entries.

Scottish Commonwealth Games Gold Medalist, Josh Taylor, Ziggurat Student Living Director, Jim Pike and Barry McGuigan MBE Leith Walk student accommodation unveiled