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Milestone reached on £30m Aberdeen Art Gallery refurb McLaughlin & Harvey has reached the highest point on the £30 million refurbishment of Aberdeen Art Gallery.

Acclaimed author JK Rowling has been given permission to build a £2 million equestrian centre at her family home in Edinburgh. The author of the "Harry Potter" book series and her husband Neil Murray were given planning permission by the City of Edinburgh Council last month to erect stables and two

Aberdeenshire Council has approved plans for a new gas to energy project in Banchory. Councillors on the policy and resources committee approved a contract to explore and develop a microgeneration project at the Crow’s Nest landfill site. The project will turn gas produced by the site into energy

Glasgow City Council has finalised its plans for a new build community campus building within the Sighthill Transformational Regeneration Area (TRA). Sitting adjacent to the new public square within the heart of the 50ha TRA masterplan, the facility will incorporate specialist and mainstream primary

Wick Community Campus (pic from Ryder Architecture) The handover of the new £48.5 million Wick school campus in the Highlands has been delayed until December, with pupils not expected to move in until next year.

Paul Wheelhouse Four communities are to receive a share of £10 million from the Scottish Government to deliver a variety of business infrastructure projects.

Humza Yousaf The Scottish Government has announced it will contribute towards the construction costs for a proposed new railway station in Glasgow.

BrewDog submitted plans to expand its brewery on the site in February 2015 Brewery company BrewDog is to expand its craft beer brewing operation in Aberdeenshire after councillors approved the relocation of a council facility.

Work to refurbish a £2.8 million community hub in Cowdenbeath is now underway. The Stenhouse Street project involves the refurbishment and extension of a former office building to provide a state of the art community hub facility.

Home builder Stewart Milne Homes was recognised at The Herald Property Awards for Scotland 2016 after collecting the coveted Development of the Year award for Devon Lane in West Lothian. Set in the village of Winchburgh within the grounds of a 150-year-old farm steading, the development features 35

The Arches at New Waverley named Commercial Project of the Year New Waverley is delighted to announce that The Arches has been awarded the coveted Commercial Project of the Year title in the Herald Property Awards for Scotland.

Construction workers at a building site in northern Brazil were rattled by the discovery of a giant 10.5 metre-long snake weighing 400kg. The enormous anaconda slithered out following an explosion at a cave in Altamira, Para.

Oxgangs Primary School was the first school in Edinburgh to close The closure of 17 Edinburgh schools earlier this year due to safety concerns has prompted The City of Edinburgh Council to order a survey of its council buildings.

Image: Hunter Laing & Co The green light has been given for the first malt whisky distillery to be built on Islay in over a decade.

Kirkcaldy-based shopfitting and interiors group Havelock Europa's group revenue for the six months ended 30 June decreased by 12 per cent to £25.4m (2015: £28.9m), according to the firm’s latest interim results.