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Artist's representation of the National HVDC Centre Construction has started on a new technology centre in Cumbernauld that will test and de-risk the use of high voltage direct current (HVDC) on the electricity network in Great Britain.

Work will begin on a £10.7 million car park at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary in the next few weeks, NHS Grampian has confirmed. The 1,000-space parking facility, made possible by a £10m donation from the Wood Foundation, will take around 11 months to build.

Activity in the UK construction sector has continued its sustained reduction though the pace of decline was only marginal and much softer than the seven-year record seen during July, a new report has found. At 49.2 in August, the seasonally adjusted Markit/CIPS UK Construction Purchasing Managers’

A tradesman has been fined for using East Lothian Council's Trusted Trader logo when he was not a member of the scheme. Edward Grey, of East Coast Cladding, was fined £200 at Edinburgh Sheriff Court earlier this month after pleading guilty to claiming to be a signatory to a code of practice when he

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Humza Yousaf meets construction staff on site A spectacular aerial video has been released of the new M8 ‘missing link’ currently being constructed as part of the £500 million M8 M73 M74 Motorway Improvements Project.

A new eBuildingStandards system that streamlines applications through one web portal has gone live. eBuildingStandards follows the launch of the improved ePlanning service in January, and signals the latest development in streamlining public services in the digital age. This new service makes it qui

Work begins on next phase of Aberdeen council housing programme Aberdeen City Council has broken ground on a £13.5 million housing development at Manor Walk.

Entrepreneurs based at the Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation (ECCI) will appear on hit BBC series Dragons’ Den this Sunday to pitch their low carbon invention to the millionaire investors. Artur Napiórkowski and Denny Schenk won a place in ECCI’s Low Carbon Ideas Lab earlier

Work on a £16.8 million extension to the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh began in earnest this week after the City of Edinburgh Council formally approved the planning applications. The National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) said the new extension will radically improve access to its world-clas

Property investor Formal Investments has lodged its plans for a £75 million commercial redevelopment in the centre of Glasgow. The proposals will see the provision of a 12-storey new build element, incorporating 130,000 sq ft of Grade A office space on Bath Street, as well as the remodelling and re

Sandy Adam Springfield Properties is set to significantly contribute to the Scottish housing market after receiving approval for over 1,700 new homes at 13 sites so far in 2016.

Pre-tax profits at Scottish timber group James Donaldson & Sons have increased by almost a third in its last financial year to £5.9 million as the firm enjoyed high activity levels across the group. The Fife-based group said it benefited from strong demand for new homes and a buoyant repair, ma

The contract to fit out the new Glasgow office of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) has been awarded to Paisley-based Clark Contracts. Global professional accounting body ACCA is to occupy the first, second and third floors at 110 Queen Street, relocating circa 650 people fro

Schematic showing completed truss end link replacement Amey has commenced the final phase of work to replace the Forth Road Bridge’s truss end links which forced the bridge to close in December last year.