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A Perth-based stonemasonry company has been fined after an apprentice was electrocuted by an overhead power line. T&M Stonemasonry, of Highfield Road, Scone, Perth, pleaded guilty to breaching Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974. It was fined £16,000.

Impression of the Donside Hydro scheme The construction phase has begun on Scotland’s first community urban hydro scheme, in the Tillydrone area of Aberdeen.

Plans have been approved for a unique family home on a coastal site just outside Charlestown near Dunfermline. Fife Architects said its brief was to design a family home with an industrial meets rural design concept to match the home's Firth of Forth location. Formerly part of the Elgin Estate the s

The proposed layout of the development Plans emerge for over 280 new Arbroath homes

A construction worker who was cheated out of wages while working for a US contractor has finally been reimbursed for his labour after a taxi driver recognised him ten years later. CBS reports that Jose Lopez had no idea his wages had been short while he worked on a building for the city of New York

John Cole CBE The City of Edinburgh Council has confirmed that respected construction and procurement industry expert John Cole CBE will lead the independent inquiry into Edinburgh’s school closures.

Image courtesy of Rob McDougall The best housebuilders in Scotland have been named at the national awards celebration for housing held in Edinburgh last night.

Dick Cannon (left) and Tom Elder of Elder & Cannon Architects. © Malcolm Cochrane Photography Tom Elder and Dick Cannon, who together founded Elder and Cannon Architects, have been presented with lifetime achievement awards by the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS).

Four eminent Scots have been presented with Honorary Fellowships of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) in recognition of their outstanding contribution to Scottish arts, literature, music, science, the public life of Scotland or to international architects.

More than 400 new homes will be built in the Raploch district of Stirling in a bid to accelerate ongoing work to tackle disadvantage and deprivation in the area, the local authority has revealed. Stirling Council has approved the Raploch Regeneration Initiative, a partnership with housebuilder Rober

A potential Tay Cities Deal is a “bigger opportunity” for Dundee than the arrival of the V&A and the wider waterfront redevelopment, it has been claimed. Welcoming progress on the Tay Cities plan, which will see Dundee, Perth and Kinross, Angus and Fife councils working together, Mike Gallow

Greg Thompson Two employees at Stewart Milne Homes have been recognised at the Trades Awards 2016 for their exceptional work across the housebuilder’s developments.

Councillors have agreed to appoint a design team for the £17 million Helensburgh Waterfront development in Argyll and Bute. The selected team will be tasked to refine plans for the project near West Clyde Street.

(from left) Samuel Craig, Charlotte Ross, St Aloysius College Headmaster Mr John Brown and CBC managing director James McAlpine Pupils lend a helping hand to finish structure at Glasgow college

Chinese construction company HuaShang Tengda has 3D printed a 400-square-meter, two-story house in a mere month and a half. The Beijing-based firm is a major competitor of fellow Chinese construction company WinSun, which we’ve featured previously with its 3D printed six-story apartment building a