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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqslA_CKub8 Big Ben’s famous bongs will temporarily cease for four years from next week so that major conservation work can be carried out.

The Scottish Procurement Alliance has revealed the nine main contractors to have secured places on its £800 million schools and community buildings framework. The four-year framework is split into regions as well as four value bands (up to £2m, £2m-£4m, £4m-£10m and £10m+) with four selected

The opening of the new Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh has been delayed for another two months, it has emerged. NHS Lothian said the £150 million facility at Little France on the outskirts of the city will now not be open until spring 2018 at the earliest.

Cladding similar to that found on Grenfell Tower in London is to be removed from Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) as a precautionary measure. It was revealed last month that Kingspan Kooltherm K15 insulation boards, the same material discovered in the Grenfell block, were fitte

Councillors have been asked to approve plans for a new business hub comprising co-working space, retail units and rented apartments in Dundee city centre. Known as Studio Dundee, the £20 million project proposes to create “state-of-the-art co-working space” for entrepreneurs a

A plumbing company has won permission to appeal a high-profile employment ruling to the Supreme Court. Pimlico Plumbers is appealing the decision of the Court of Appeal in London that it should have classed Gary Smith as a “worker” rather than self-employed.

Planning permission has been granted for a retail park on the site of a former distillery in Montrose. Developers Kilmac launched an application for a large 22,000 square foot retail unit and two 12,000 square foot units with 172 car parking spaces, and junction improvements at the Brechin Road site

The HALO regeneration project which aims to create a commercial, cultural, leisure and lifestyle quarter on the former Diageo bottling plant in Kilmarnock has received a funding boost from the UK government. As part of the UK government's industrial strategy, ministers are investing £3.5 million in

A grant of almost £4 million from the National Lottery is set to complete the restoration and preservation of the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Willow Tea Rooms Building in Glasgow. The award from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) will ensure the completion of The Willow Tea Rooms Trust’s mission to co

Councillor Jenny Laing with Bill Robertson, chairman and founder of the Robertson Group (left), and Nigel Munro, senior project manager, Henry Boot Developments Main beams for new AECC arena arrive on site

Workers on Aberdeen’s bypass are having to “go into the woods and dig a hole” due the state of the on-site toilets, it has been claimed. Construction workers near Ellon say it has been three weeks since cleaners tended to the toilets.

The selection panel considering architects shortlisted for the transformation of Perth City Hall are to recommend internationally-renowned firm Mecanoo to councillors next week. The international design competition for the City Hall attracted global interest and over 70 initial expressions of intere

The directors of the now defunct Glasgow-based George Hunter (Demolishers) Limited have been disqualified for allowing the company to continue to incur liabilities despite knowing a petition to wind the company up was before the court. George Beattie (senior) signed a seven year disqualification und

Ian Hughes The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) has launched a campaign to get young people to join the construction industry as new statistics revealed 20% of the sector’s workforce is set to retire in the next decade.

Output in the UK's construction sector fell 1.3% in the three months to June, after a 1.1% rise in the first quarter, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has revealed. The 3 month on 3 month decrease was driven by a 1.3% drop in new work and a 1.4% fall in repair and maintenance, the fourth con