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The chief executive of Forth Port has joined apprentices, graduates and Skills Development Scotland for a ‘turf-cutting’ ceremony to officially mark the start of construction of a new, purpose built, training academy located within the Port of Grangemouth, Scotland’s biggest port.

A Perthshire construction firm owner has been fined a total of £4,000 at Perth Sheriff Court for waste offences at a site just outside Blairgowrie.

The director of a Scottish freight transport firm has been banned from acting as a director for 9 years after he illegally used red diesel to fuel his fleet.

Joe Dunn Building surveying and project management firm, PMP, has made a senior appointment to its team as it commences work on two of the most exciting commercial projects in Edinburgh.

Kier Construction Scotland scooped four national accolades at this year’s Considerate Constructors Scheme annual awards - all for projects based in Scotland.

Lack of supply continues to push up prices in the Scottish housing market and slow down demand, according to the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyor’s March 2018 UK Residential Market Survey.

Plans to bring new housing to the Whitfield area of Dundee as part of a “major regeneration initiative” have commenced this week.

Rubislaw Quarry homes plan Sepa objects to £68m Rubislaw Quarry plans

Balfour Beatty Summer Placement student and sharpshooter David McMath has won Commonwealth gold in the men's ‘Double Trap’ shooting event for Scotland at the Commonwealth Games in Bisbane after an exciting final.

Court of Session Perth-based energy giant SSE, which was seeking £130 million in damages from an engineering contractor following the collapse of a tunnel at a Fort Augustus hydro-electric scheme nearly a decade ago, has won its appeal over the affair.

Construction output in the UK has continued its recent decline with February Office for National Statistics figures showing that the sector suffered a 1.6 per cent month-on-month fall, and compared with February 2017, construction output fell 3.0 per cent; the biggest month-on-year fall since March

The UK is often accused of having a ‘not in my back yard’ mentality, with new research by insurer AXA showing that two thirds of respondents to its survey on the subject believing people are guilty of the ‘NIMBY’ effect.

St Joseph's College, Dumfries hub South West, the construction and infrastructure-focused partnership which works with local authorities and private sector enterprises in Lanarkshire, Ayrshire and Dumfries and Galloway, has completed work on a £24 million project in Dumfries & Galloway.

Edinburgh World Heritage has announced the launch of an innovative new project to improve the energy efficiency of the Canongate Housing development, alongside undertaking vital conservation work on the architecturally important listed buildings.

The Roxburghe hotel and golf course, near Kelso in the Scottish Borders has been sold to Düsseldorf-based project developer and hotel operator 12.18. Investment Management GmbH, having been marketed for offers in excess of £3.25 million.