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New Brunstane Final masterplan proposals for New Brunstane to be shared with community at second event

The Heydar Aliyev Centre in Baku, Azerbaijan by Zaha Hadid Architects The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the 30 buildings in contention for its first global architecture award, The RIBA International Prize.

Over 250 workers who say they were blacklisted by construction companies are set to share more than £10 million in compensation following a long-running legal battle. Unite, the country's biggest union, said is understood to have secured a further £4m for 97 of the 256 claimants, whose original co

Two separate developments which would provide a combined total up to 4500 homes near Perth are set to be considered by council planners on Wednesday. Currently at the ‘in principle’ stage, both the Almond Valley and Bertha Park schemes are marked for approval, with finer points on the developmen

A twelfth consecutive rise in construction activity has done little to lift the prevailing mood of uncertainty within the UK sector ahead of the EU referendum, according to an industry survey. The latest Construction Trade Survey from the Construction Product Association (CPA) showed that constructi

Norfolk Court The high rise flats at Norfolk Court in Laurieston were demolished yesterday to make way for a development of 201 homes by New Gorbals Housing Association.

Work on the new £10 million Langlee Primary in the Scottish Borders began today with the help of two pupils. Alfie Millar and Faye Kennedy cut the first sods for the new school, which will be built by McLaughlin and Harvey and is expected to open in summer 2017.

Laura Peacock, key relationship manager, Investors in Young People (seated left) presents the Investors in Young People Gold accreditation to David Cooper, director, Clark Contracts, watched by a selection of Clark Contracts’ young employees who have been trained through the company’s Academy Co

Students acting as a board of directors for a virtual construction company in a simulated environment have been fighting it out over six weeks of intensive competition to reach the final of this year’s Global Student Challenge, run by the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB). Over 50 teams from

Construction industry’s chance to pledge its support for The Lighthouse Club Construction industry charity, The Lighthouse Club, is calling on firms and employees across the sector to vote for it to benefit from a £20,000 donation pot pledged by Hudson Contract to mark its 20th anniversary.

Two daring Dundonians took having fun in the sun to new heights yesterday by using scaffolding outside a block of flats as a makeshift balcony. The duo decided to make use of the structure at the front of a top-floor Morgan Street flat, three storeys up, by apparently climbing out of the window to b

Interserve has announced that it will have to make £70 million of provisions on a delayed waste to energy contract in Glasgow. In a trading update to shareholders this morning, the contractor said that a further deterioration in the project has “significantly adversely impacted” its expectation

Sarah Speirs The biggest challenge for Scotland’s next government will be tackling the chronic shortage of houses across all tenures, according to RICS Scotland.

The Scottish Government has approved plans for a residential development with an Edinburgh conservation area following an appeal. Zone Architects was granted planning permission for the construction of five terraced houses in the Trinity conservation area in the north of the city.

Claymore Homes has unveiled plans to build hundreds of homes across three sites in Aberdeenshire. The Peterhead firm has tabled a proposal for a second phase of 31 properties at its Merryhillock housing scheme, to the west of Fraserburgh.