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First glimpse inside of Glasgow’s Park Quadrant Residences The interiors of a landmark new development in Glasgow will be revealed this week with the opening of a marketing suite and show apartment at Park Quadrant Residences in the city’s West End.

A company which uses computer algorithms to create customised prefabricated dwellings for homes has completed its first project. Deezen reports that design-build firm Cover has created a 320-square-foot (30-square-metre) studio in Los Angeles which serves as an office and music studio for an Oscar-n

Economy, jobs and fair work secretary, Keith Brown, has assured former Carillion employees working on the Aberdeen Bypass project that they are being supported by the Scottish Government.

Gordon Cunningham Clark Contracts has secured over £45 million of new work in the six months up to 31st January 2018, from both new and existing customers.

Expanding building materials group Breedon has confirmed it is in talks to buy a major part of Northern Ireland’s Lagan Group. The Lagan Group is a diversified construction business covering quarrying, cement, asphalt and contracting.

View of the Falkirk Gateway looking north over the site Contractors have been lined up to deliver £67 million of infrastructure investment works throughout Falkirk over the next six years, the local authority has said.

Kengo Kuma outside the V&A Dundee. Image Credit: Alan Richardson The man behind the design of the new V&A museum in Dundee has voiced his support for the surrounding development planned at the city’s Waterfront.

The developer behind the new £500 million Edinburgh Marina project is to breathe new life into a derelict 19th century gunpowder store. The 176-year-old warehouse at Granton Harbour has been on Scotland’s “buildings at risk” register for years.

Building work on a £7.7 million community sports village in Banchory is now underway. Provost of Aberdeenshire Councillor Bill Howatson stuck the ceremonial spade into the ground signifying the start of the construction of Banchory Sports Village at a special event on Friday morning.

Drivers working for a Maidenhead-based cement production company are gearing up to take strike action in a dispute over pay. Around 240 workers at Castle Cement, which is part of the Hanson HeidelbergCement Group, have voted in favour of staging industrial action later this month due to a "very unsa

One of Scotland’s smallest whisky distilleries has unveiled plans for a new still house on the isle of Islay following a multi-million-pound investment from The Glenmorangie Company. Subject to planning approval, the Ardbeg Distillery aims to start work this year, for completion in 2019.

Work begins at new £3.8m Clydebank Community Sports Hub Work on a new £3.8 million community sports facility for Clydebank has officially started – with the state-of-the-art hub due to be up and running later this year.

The Architect's Home in the Ravine, 1991 A painting by Scotland's “most valuable living artist” which refers to a building in Toronto will come to auction next month with an estimate of £14-18 million.

A proposed £60m teaching and learning hub Four contractors have been chosen by the University of Strathclyde for its Framework for Major Building Construction to support the delivery of its ongoing Capital Investment Plan for construction work exceeding £4 million.

Rt Hon. Henry McLeish The chair of the Scottish Alliance for People and Places, and former First Minister of Scotland, the Rt Hon. Henry McLeish, has called on the Scottish Government to be much more explicit about the requirement for local communities to be engaged at the earliest stages of the pla