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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BvCxmT7aAM A hitherto anonymous region near China’s smog-choked capital has been overrun by house buyers after Beijing unveiled “historic” plans to build a new city there in a bid to slash pollution and congestion, The Guardian has reported.

Stuart MacGregor Aberdeen-based housebuilder Stewart Milne Group has posted a £26 million pre-tax loss in its last financial year after being hit by the impact of falling oil prices on the north east of Scotland's housing sector.

Court of Session The family of a man who drowned after his vehicle collided with a “defective parapet” on a bridge and fell into the sea have successfully sued the local authority.

David McClean The architecture course at Aberdeen’s Robert Gordon University (RGU) has received professional accreditation by the Malaysian Board of Architects (LAM), the first institution in the UK to do so.

(Image: Google) Developers are set to submit plans to demolish Netherlea Hospital in Newport, Fife, to make way for a collection of luxury homes costing up to £650,000 each.

Land Reform secretary Rosanna Cunningham MSP meets with farmers Hew and Jane Hunter, who are tenant farmers on the Crown Estate. Powers over the revenue and management of Crown Estate resources in Scotland have been transferred to the Scottish Government, with the aim of giving communities a stronge

The Beatrice windfarm off the Scottish coast Wind turbines in Scotland set a new March record for the total amount of power sent to the National Grid since records began.

Kevin Scarlett Eighteen housing associations in Scotland – including the Haymarket Group of associations – have agreed to take part in a sector scorecard pilot to benchmark a range of business health and efficiency measures.

Maree Todd MSP with Gordon Reid, Business Development Manager at Kier Construction Scotland Maree Todd MSP visits Kier Construction Scotland’s Inverness base

The smallest castle in Britain has been put on the market for the same price as a London flat. The Grade II listed Molly’s Lodge in the Cotswolds, designed in 1834 by Edward Blore, the same architect who worked on Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey and Lambeth Palace, is on the market for £550,

Scottish Ministers have today given formal approval to an application by Network Rail to undertake major redevelopment works at Glasgow Queen Street Station. The Transport and Works Scotland (TAWS) Order triggers the latest phase of this ambitious improvement programme which, on completion, will giv

The construction of a new town in East Lothian is to begin next year after councillors approved the first phase of the development. Planning approval in principle was granted for 1,600 new homes at Blindwells, on part of a 392 acre site near Tranent.

East Lothian Community Hospital The value of community-based facilities under construction across the Scotland-wide hub programme has reached £1.16 billion and is supporting over 9,000 jobs, figures published today by the Scottish Futures Trust (SFT) have revealed.

A major national contract to help Scottish councils source specialist engineering and technical consultancy services has recently gone live. Scotland Excel’s second generation Engineering and Technical Consultancy Framework is expected to be worth £17 million a year and will be in place for four

Paul McDevitt TUV SUD Ltd has announced the appointment of Paul McDevitt, formerly managing director of specialist construction industry consultants Business Fix Limited, to the newly created senior role of business and staff development director.