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Homeless World Cup to transform George Square Glasgow’s George Square is to be transformed into a stunning arena with three football pitches and seating for 3,500 spectators when it plays host to the Homeless World Cup later this year.

Police in northern China say an argument between construction workers escalated into a demolition derby-style clash of heavy machinery that left at least two bulldozers flipped over in a street. In online video taken Saturday, several bulldozers are seen ramming each other while passenger cars scurr

An example of a Hampton by Hilton hotel The sharp decline of the hospitality sector in the north east has not deterred the Aberdeen-based construction arm of Robertson Group from keeping hotel projects in the city at the heart of its plans, the firm said yesterday.

Jonathan Goring Jonathan Goring has been appointed as managing director of Lovell just three months after joining Laing O’Rourke.

Plans have been lodged for a new £35 million housing development at the former site of an Aberdeen school. Aberdeen City Council has submitted a detailed planning application to build 369 residential flats at the old location of Summerhill Academy which has lain vacant for four years.

Partick Housing Association has submitted plans to transform a former Glasgow school into 60 new flats. Designed by Collective Architecture, the £8 million redevelopment of the former St Peter’s School on Chancellor Street will provide a mix of 1-3 bed homes for social and mid-market rent as well

Aberdeen city centre The regeneration expert appointed to help drive forward the Aberdeen City Centre Masterplan (CCMP) has said the city can compete with world's best cities for global investment.

The principal of City of Glasgow College has spoken of his delight after the Riverside Campus scooped the top prize for Design through Innovation at this year’s RICS Awards in Scotland. The Awards showcase the most inspirational initiatives and developments in land, property, construction and envi

CMS Window Systems managing director, Andy Kerr Window, door and curtain walling designer, manufacturer and installer CMS Window Systems has been identified as one of the country’s most profitable businesses by being named in 2016’s highly respected Profit Track 100 report by The Sunday Times in

Borders Railway receives prestigious Infrastructure award Borders Railway has received the Infrastructure accolade at the RICS Awards Scotland 2016.

The Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, is to write an ode to old-fashioned gas and electric meters as they face extinction, the BBC has reported. Glasgow-born Duffy, who was appointed Poet Laureate in 2009, said she wanted to preserve the place of traditional "whirring" meters in household history.

Construction specialists Peace Recruitment scooped two awards at the recent S1 Jobs Recruitment Awards. The Edinburgh-based firm which specialises in recruitment for the built environment (construction, building, architecture) was not only named The Best Small Recruitment Consultancy but one of its

One of Scotland's largest timber merchants has announced multi-million pound plans to expand into three new areas of Scotland. MGM Timber, part of the Fife-based James Donaldson Group, said the expansion, which will add sites in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and either East Kilbride or Cambuslang, was on the

Scotland’s campaigning trade body for the electro-technical industry is giving its support to a parliamentary petition which seeks to “make working with electricity a criminal offence unless suitably qualified”. The petition, which was launched by Kevin Hamilton, is not directly related to SEL

The Federation of Master Builders (FMB) has pointed towards uncertainty amongst businesses and consumers ahead of the EU referendum as a reason behind the latest fall in output within the construction industry. Latest construction sector figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed