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Work starts on £2.6m Glenboig link road Construction work has begun on the new £2.6 million Glenboig link road, North Lanarkshire Council’s first infrastructure project as part of the Glasgow City Region City Deal.

Planning permission has been granted to install a sculpture depicting Jesus as a homeless person in Nelson Mandela Place, Glasgow. Glasgow Churches Together, the group behind bringing the sculpture of Matthew 25, known as the Homeless Jesus, is now raising £15,000 to fund the project.

Chris Stewart Group has appointed ISG to deliver its flagship office and leisure project as part of the wider redevelopment of The Registers in Edinburgh. The mixed-use Mint Building scheme in St Andrew Square sees ISG create circa 61,000 sq ft of Grade A office accommodation and 11,000 sq ft of lei

Ian Hughes The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) in Scotland has confirmed it will cut the levy it collects from employers from 0.5% to 0.35% of the total payments made to employees (PAYE) in 2018-20.

Rebecca Thompson Rebecca Thompson FCIOB, a specialist in heritage conservation and lecturer in building studies, has become the 114th President of the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB), only the second female ever to hold that position.

Nicholas Groves-Raines FRIAS with wife, Kristin Hannesdottir (c) Malcolm Cochrane Edinburgh architect Nicholas Groves-Raines has been presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) for his outstanding contribution to architecture in Scotland

Graeme Laing North Lanarkshire Council has granted full planning permission to Ashfield Land and Taylor Wimpey for the development of 160 new homes at Glasgow Road, Bargeddie.

Design, construction and property professionals can now access the UK’s first timber frame Building Information Modelling (BIM) library, after a successful 12-month project by Stewart Milne Timber Systems. The library has been developed by the company with the support of the CITB through its innov

The most inspiring young surveyors, who make Scotland a better place to live, work and visit, are currently being given the opportunity to have their talent recognised nationally and be rewarded with a car to help them in their career. Surveyors are essential in key areas such as housing, commercial

As a result of a wide and detailed consultation with employers and educators in Scotland, CITB has ensured a set of nine, new, craft Scottish Vocational Qualifications (SVQ) will be ready for the new intake of Apprentices in August and that the SVQs now formally incorporate the highly valued Skills

Deputy First Minister opens new £40m North Ayrshire campus Garnock Community Campus has been officially opened by John Swinney, the Deputy First Minister and cabinet secretary for education and skills.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has unveiled his detailed vision to colonise Mars, including how much it is going to cost and what he wants to build first. The Huffington Post reports that the billionaire already set a date for landing a spacecraft on the red planet - 2018 - and to set the ball rolling on his

The regeneration of the banks of the river Clyde, including plans for a new bridge linking Partick and Govan, has moved forward after Glasgow City Council gave its approval to finalising legal agreements with Peel Holdings Limited. The proposals are part of the Glasgow City Region City Deal and incl

A £40 million mixed use development looks set to be developed at one of the Dundee Waterfront’s most prominent sites after city planning officials recommended it for approval. Robertson Group, together with architects Cooper Cromar, submitted plans in February to deliver 88 apartments across two

The Seaton tower blocks in Aberdeen The Scottish Government has urged all Registered Social Landlords (RSLs) in the country to provide tower block stock information to assist a ministerial review of Scottish regulations in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire in West London.