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Upmarket housebuilder CALA Group increased its housing completions by 46% in the year to June as it reported a fifth consecutive year of growth and record profits. Despite its average selling price of homes falling by 8% and operating margins decreasing from 14% last year to 12%, CALA’s revenue fo

Work on a £66 million overhaul to transform the Burrell Collection museum in Glasgow will get underway within months after the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) confirmed the £15m it had earmarked for the project back in April 2015. The A-listed building in Pollok Country Park, which closed to the publi

Developers are being invited to register their interest in developing a hotel at Inverness Campus. Campus owner, Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE), is promoting a site of around three acres for the development of a business-class hotel with around 120 bedrooms, meeting rooms, bistro, bar and lo

Callum Grant Energy efficient timber frame kit homes, windows and doors manufacturer Norscot has appointed Callum Grant to the dual role of managing and commercial director.

GVA’s Peter Fraser on why proposals to extend the tram service to Leith could see the area’s conversion into one of the premier places in Edinburgh to live, work and visit. Other than the famous footballing rivalry between Hearts and Hibernian, you may struggle to find a more divisive subject in

(from left) Convener of the infrastructure committee, Councillor Michael McPake; Steve Dillon, regional co-ordinating officer at Unite; Michael Farnell and Graham McNab from Unite and leader of the council, Councillor Jim Logue Construction firms planning to work on North Lanarkshire Council build p

A ground-breaking initiative designed to make buildings safer for both construction workers and users in the future has been launched by the Association for Project Safety (APS) and the Chartered Association of Building Engineers (CABE)

Specialist supplier of cabling infrastructure and networked wireless systems and services Xtreme Business Solutions Limited has been placed into administration. Administrators FRP Advisory LLP said the Aberdeen-based business has ceased trading with immediate effect, resulting in all 50 staff being

Statoil's Hywind Scotland, the world’s first floating wind farm A raft of offshore energy world firsts dominate the shortlist for the prestigious 2017 Scottish Green Energy Awards which was announced today.

HES director of conservation Professor David Mitchell, Deputy First Minister John Swinney and HES chief executive Alex Paterson examine the interactive map display at the Engine Shed Deputy First Minister and cabinet secretary for education and skills, John Swinney, welcomed the announcement of ten

Ladyloan Primary School Two Angus schools given the green light

Danish architecture firm EFFEKT has designed a new attraction which will allow people to walk above the tress and experience the stunning nature of the forest from another perspective. The Treetop Experience is a 600 meter seamless continuous ramp connected to a 45 meter tall spiralling observation

Vaughan Hart Members of the Scottish Building Federation (SBF) and the Scottish Decorators’ Federation (SDF) have both voted overwhelmingly to reject the Construction Industry Training Board’s (CITB) proposals to continue to raise the construction industry training levy.

Losses at troubled UK building and services firm Carillion have now spiralled to £1.15 billion as more problem jobs were revealed by the firm this morning. In delayed half-year results, Carillion revealed it has made provision of £200 million for losses on its support services contracts and has ta

Plans to create student flats as part of a £20 million redevelopment of a historic Dundee building have been scrapped in favour of more hotel rooms. Fresh proposals submitted to the local authority to transform the former Robertson’s furniture store in Barrack Street include plans for two hotels