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Social space and games area within the Foundry Courtyard complex The £32 million Foundry Courtyard student accommodation complex in Glasgow is now complete and ready to receive the first students.

Historical maritime buildings in the harbour of Wick in Caithness will be brought back into operation when renovated to act as the hub for one of the largest new offshore wind farms in the UK. Work is well underway to build the £2.6 billion, 84 turbine offshore wind farm in the outer Moray Firth. D

A new Ayr Academy secondary school is set to open later this month after being delivered by Kier Construction and hub South West Scotland on behalf of South Ayrshire Council. Ayr Academy, whose origins can be traced back to 1233 but did not come to be known by its present name until 1796, has moved

Jamie Nelson, Jenn Hood and Claire McArthur DYW Glasgow is promoting the variety of routes on offer to young people if they do not receive the results they were hoping for on Scottish Exam Results Day 2017.

John Low, MD of Stewart Milne Homes North, and Carole Baxter from Beechgrove Garden Communities up and down the UK could benefit from greener, more attractive communal spaces as part of a Stewart Milne Group campaign to give back to the regions in which it works.

Queen to officially open Queensferry Crossing The Queensferry Crossing will be officially opened by Her Majesty The Queen on 4 September 2017.

Organisers of the Carbuncle Awards, handed out each year in recognition of Scotland’s “most dismal town”, have said the initiative is to make way for a new prize which looks to take a more “positive” view of the nation’s built environment. The Carbuncles, which launched at the turn of th

John Muir Fife-based contractor, housebuilder and property developer Muir Group is looking ahead to “promising” prospects for the current year following an increase in revenue over the last 12 months.

Heart of Midlothian Football Club has announced that it will not be able to play any home games until November due to construction delays on the club’s new £12 million stand. Despite a “mammoth effort” to complete the Tynecastle project, club owner Ann Budge has confirmed that the targeted Se

(from left) Peter Barker, Gareth Callen, Andy Costa, Richard Dorkin and Ronnie Graham Ryder Architecture has appointed five new partners to continue to build on the firm’s growing expertise across an increasingly diverse sector and geographic base.

Plans have been lodged to transform a derelict Perth school into a £3.5 million arts hub providing work spaces and studios for local artists. Perth and Kinross Council wants to fashion a ‘creative exchange’ within the city’s former St John’s Primary on Stormont Street aimed at nurturing up-

Gillian Craig Gillian Craig looks at the risk attaching to ownership in an imperfect registration system.

A typical CALA West street scene CALA Homes (West) has submitted a planning application for a proposed development in Claddens, Lenzie.

Plans have been submitted for a £6 million housing development on a former hospital site in Arbroath. Chamberlain Bell Developments Ltd has applied to create 49 homes on the 2.2 hectare site of Little Cairnie Hospital in Arbroath, which closed in 2015.

Nicola Barclay New energy performance data gathered from buildings in England and Wales has busted the myth perpetuated by critics of modern new homes that they are “rabbit hutches”, according to trade body Homes for Scotland.