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The Edinburgh Architectural Association (EAA) has awarded Richard Murphy Architects’ “beautifully crafted” Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries the title of Building of the Year at its annual awards last night. Announced and presented at a drinks reception in the Edinburgh Centre for C

A 45-year-old man has died while working at a building site in High Blantyre, South Lanarkshire. Police and ambulance services were called to the Avant Homes site on Hamilton Road yesterday morning following a report that a man had been seriously injured.

Mears has signed a new deal with the Highland Council which will see millions of pounds saved over the lifetime of the Private Public Partnership (PPP) Highland Schools Project. The company entered into a 30-year contract with Alpha Schools (Highlands) and the council to carry out Total Facilities M

The UK government has sold the Edinburgh-based Green Investment Bank to global investment banking and financial services organisation the Macquarie Group for £2.3 billion, creating one of Europe’s largest teams of green energy investment specialists. Launched in 2012 to channel investment into lo

Paul Sheffield Paul Sheffield, former chief executive of Kier and managing director of Laing O’Rourke, is set to join the supervisory board of Royal BAM Group.

Persimmon Homes has lodged plans for a further 55 homes at the Western Gateway development on the outskirts of Dundee. The application could see a mix of properties added to the 595 houses Springfield Properties has already been granted permission to build in the area.

Submarine cable to be placed in Scalpay Bridge Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) has amended its plans regarding the planned replacement of the existing submarine cable that connects Harris to Scalpay and is now proposing to place the replacement cable within the Scalpay Bridge.

The Queen’s official sculptor in Scotland wants to complete one of the nation’s most famously incomplete works of architecture, according to The Herald. The National Monument on Calton Hill, in Edinburgh, has remained incomplete since work stopped on it in 1829.

A £280 million development near Edinburgh Airport consisting of 1,400 new homes, a primary school, shops and offices, has been recommended for refusal by council officials. Work on the Maybury development, which would also include hundreds of affordable homes, had been hoped to start as early as ne

Proposals for phase 2 of The Village The developers of the multi award winning Athletes’ Village have submitted a detailed planning application to build a further 125 new homes on the Dalmarnock site.

Offsite construction could revolutionise the construction industry and provide a solution to the UK housing shortage, but only if the sector develops the right skills, a new Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) report has shown. With the use of prefabrication widely expected to rise across th

Councillors have approved proposals to develop a major gap site in Perth city centre into a new leisure, retail and housing development. Designed by Holmes Miller, the £30 million Mill Quarter development will comprise of restaurants and bars, speciality shops, a cinema, gyms, housing, and a multi

Building and civil engineering contractors J Smart & Co has warned that its year-end profits will be down on 2016’s figures despite an increase in half-year profit and revenue. The Edinburgh-based group said its workload has decreased and margins remains “disappointing” heading into the se

Plans to create Dundee’s first drive-through coffee shop as well as an adjacent restaurant have been given the green light. Developers Kilmac will create the two outlets, which will be run as separate businesses, on Fulton Road on the city’s Gourdie Industrial Estate.

Developers behind a data centre proposal near Lockerbie have been granted a further three-year extension to its planning permission subject to conditions. The Peelhouses Farm project initially emerged almost 10 years ago promising an £800 million investment and the creation of thousands of jobs.