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Robin Webster OBE FRIAS Robin Webster has been elected the next President of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS).

East Renfrewshire Council has submitted £23 million plans to build five new nurseries in the region. The facilities, three of which will operate as family centres providing childcare for 50 weeks of the year, are planned to be open by August 2020.

(from left) Karen Shaw (business development manager at CCG), John Kerr (West Dunbartonshire Council’s housing development and homeless manager), Cllr Diane Docherty, convener of housing and communities, Calum Murray (director at CCG), and Cllr Caroline McAllister, vice convener of housing and com

Roof window manufacturer Velux has unveiled plans for a £7 million expansion to its iconic UK and Ireland head office building at Woodside Way in Glenrothes. A new customer service centre, training facilities, office space, meeting suite and a staff restaurant will be housed within a 3,500 metre ne

Royal Bank of Scotland has today officially released for sale its former office and data centre site at Dundas Street in the heart of Edinburgh’s New Town. Branded ‘New Town North’, the 5.89 acre plot is the largest site to be sold in the city for more than a decade and is expected

A deteriorating road-over-rail bridge which threatens the East Coast Main Line in Aberdeenshire will be demolished in the interest of safety. Abbeyton Bridge, on the B966 just north of Fordoun, was shut in July after inspections found serious failings in the 170-year-old structure, which continue to

Highland Council has submitted a planning application for a low head hydroelectric development at the Torvean Weir on the River Ness. Using an Archimedes screw, the hydroelectric scheme will have a generating capacity of up to 100kW and an average annual renewable energy output of approximately 600,

The £110 million new University of the West of Scotland (UWS) campus at Hamilton International Technology Park has opened its doors to the new student intake. Developed by HFD Property Group (HFD) and designed by Mosaic Architecture + Design, the new 235,000 sq.ft. Lanarkshire campus offers a

John Swinney joins pupils Nina Biagi, Jack Biagi and Rehan Sohail in one of the school's new Nooks New primary school officially opened in Portobello

An innovative installation of mosses, which can help combat air pollution, has been installed in Musselburgh. Known as the ‘CityTree’, the structure uses a combination of mosses which are cultivated to thrive in urban areas and which is claimed has the capability to remove air pollutants from th

Flammable insulation which has been linked to the spread of fires at Grenfell Tower and the Glasgow School of Art is installed in the roof of the V&A Dundee, according to reports. The flagship £80 million museum, which opened last month, is fitted with two different types of lining, which both

Plans to deliver Scotland’s first purpose-built film and TV studio on the outskirts of Edinburgh appear to have suffered a major blow following a ruling by the Scottish Land Court. Farmer Jim Telfer had faced eviction from his smallholdings at Damhead where Scottish Ministers formally granted plan

Collective Architecture has been selected from six shortlisted practices by Camphill School Aberdeen (CSA) to design a £10 million transformation of two of its three campuses.

Restoration work has started at the site of a new £2.5 million visitor destination on the banks of Loch Ness. Housed within the former Dochgarroch village hall, the new unique destination is due to open its doors in May 2019 and is poised to become a beacon of Highland hospitality.

Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastructure has successfully handed over a new state-of-the-art £13 million school to Aberdeen City Council in time for the start of the 2018 academic year. Stoneywood School, located in the Bucksburn area in the north of Aberdeen, was built on the site of the f