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Milestone for new AECC as burn diversion works complete The diversion of the Green Burn that runs through the site of the new Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre has been completed.

A Keltbray machine driver turned hero this week when a raging commuter confronted a woman at London’s Liverpool Street Station. Steph Tat appealed to the firm on Twitter to help find “a wonderful stranger called Tommy” to thank him for “saving her from an aggressive, psychopathic commuter at

A Fife-based construction company has been fined after a worker had to be dug out of a trench that collapsed onto him six years ago. Dundee Sheriff Court heard the 43-year-old employee of Wallace Roofing and Building Limited suffered a broken shoulder and collarbone as well as punctures to both of h

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has today issued PwC with a £5 million fine, its largest fine to date, for misconduct relating to its audit of Connaught plc, a FTSE 250 social housing company which went into administration in 2010. The UK’s independent regulator for accountants and actuarie

Craig Robertson Robertson Group has secured work for energy giant SSE worth around £560,000 – marking the first time its Specialist Division will serve as a main contractor.

Regional managing director Simon Phillips (right) and business development manager Euan McDermott Esh Border Construction has announced a raft of new multi-million pound framework partnerships within Scotland's social housing sector.

Global professional services consultancy WSP has dropped Parsons Brinckerhoff from its name as it unveiled a new brand and logo that marking its “growth and transformation”. The new brand celebrates the culture built on the coming together of over 85 companies in the last five years, with WSP gr

Photomontage looking east along Froghall Terrace Plans to build more than 400 student homes and up to 80 flats on the site of a former BT yard in Aberdeen have been rejected by the Scottish Government.

Output in the UK construction sector has fallen for the third month in a row despite an increase in new housing. Figures released today by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show overall construction output was 0.7% lower in March, with the monthly fall worse than previous estimates.

191 West George Street Building contractor Morris & Spottiswood has commenced a major programme of works to transform a landmark office development in Glasgow city centre for NFU Mutual.

Rutherglen Links Business Park Harris Finance, whose commercial property division has recently completed the development of two speculative industrial units at Clyde Gateway’s Rutherglen Links Business Park, has announced the purchase of a further four plots at the development.

Lack of properties continues to stymie housing market in Scotland A lack of available stock continued to hamper the Scottish housing market in April, despite a rise in sales prices, the latest RICS UK Residential Market Survey has found.

'Mr Younger' on the Forth Road Bridge For most young couples, the inside of a steel girder with 80,000 vehicles a day thundering overhead would not seem like an ideal location to start a family.

Details of how more than £43 million is being invested in low-carbon infrastructure were announced today by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon. Shared across 13 projects throughout Scotland, this investment represents one of the largest direct energy investments in the last 10 years. The funding, award

David Thomas Housebuilder Barratt Developments said it expects full year profit to reach the top end of market expectations as it forecasts its highest rate of completions this year since the financial crisis.