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The Caithness Broch Project is planning to recreate Iron Age roundhouses in Lego to loan to museums, encouraging people to find out how they were built and used thousands of years ago. Kenneth McElroy, chairman of the Caithness Broch Project, believes that constructing a replica building from Lego w

Building services contractor T Clarke has returned to a net cash position after a solid first half performance. Revenues from continuing operations rose to £121,6m from £107.3m last time. Underlying operating profits rose to £2.2m from £2.1m and reported operating profits of £2.1m were up from

A modified draft of the Angus Local Development Plan (ALDP) has been agreed which identifies land for the development of around 330 new homes per annum across the area to 2026. Given the green light by Angus Council this week, the plan also gives continued support for existing sites and brownfield o

Galloway's work at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome in Glasgow Dundee engineering firm Galloway Group was given “significant financial support” by the Scottish Government before it entered administration, it has been revealed.

The A90/A937 south junction Plans to build a multi-million pound business park in Angus have been given the green light by the Scottish Government.

Heart of Midlothian Football Club has formally submitted a planning application for a new Main Stand at its Tynecastle stadium. The next stage of the Tynecastle redevelopment will see the stadium transformed into a 20,000-plus capacity stadium in time for the 2017-18 season.

A manager at a Dundee building merchants who embezzled more than £73,000 from his bosses is facing jail. Jonathan Green was a sales manager at Grahams Building Merchants in Dundee when he carried out the year-long fraud.

A map showing the 11 dualling schemes and where the ground investigations are taking place Fugro Geoservices Ltd has secured the third ground investigation contract of the summer on the Scottish Government’s A9 Dualling programme.

From left: Deveron Construction team members Stewart Riddoch (project surveyor), Colin Wright (operations manager), Scott Clark (site manager) and Bruce Robertson (general manager) Deveron Construction has announced the completion of a nursing home project in Keith.

Over £700,000 funding to improve housing for crofters Crofters in some of Scotland’s rural and remote communities will benefit from better housing through funding from the Scottish Government.

Norway is exploring an unconventional and first-of-its-kind form of transportation infrastructure solution to travelling across its many fjords. A drive on the main coastal artery, E39, from Stavanger to Sogneford is less than 250 miles, but takes more than seven hours, traversing as it does countle

Scotland’s public spending watchdog has called for urgent action to improve the condition of the country’s road network to improve the economic prosperity and safety of road users. A new report published today by Audit Scotland said that while sharing roads maintenance services on a regional bas

Plans for the redeveloped Darwin Building, Robertson has started work on a £12 million contract to transform the University of Edinburgh’s Darwin building.

Glasgow Housing Association (GHA) has been given the green light to build 152 homes in the Ibrox area of the city. The development will see 116 socially rented homes and 36 homes for mid-market rent constructed on a currently derelict site bounded by Broomloan Road, Skene Road and Paisley Road West.

Revised plans for the expansion of Carnoustie’s multi-million pound golf centre have been given the green light. The ground floor of the extension will have a new entrance and accommodate a golf simulator, member’s golf bag storage area, temporary bag drop area, caddies area and the caddymaster�