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Grampian Housing Association has revealed it will press on with plans to build affordable homes in Elgin after an £8.5 million scheme to build a new road was scrapped by Moray Council. Plans for the Western Link Road scheme, which would have provided access to the Grampian development, was abandone

The Bucentaur from the air Fugro has completed offshore works undertaken in preparation for full construction of the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) at Aberdeen Bay.

Public consultation gets underway for Hearts grandstand Hearts Football Club have published the first artist’s impression of a planned main grandstand at Tynecastle stadium which would add 3,000 seats, upping maximum capacity to 20,000.

A rare opportunity has emerged to buy a special piece of real estate in Highgate, North London. According to the Metro, an entrepreneurial homeowner has decided to try to flog off his spare toilet for rental at £3,000 a month – that’s 6,000 visits per month if charged at 50p per pee.

Structural faults have been detected in two Edinburgh secondaries following the closure of 17 schools in the city. The City of Edinburgh Council ordered the closures on Friday after the private consortium behind the construction and maintenance of the schools, the Edinburgh Schools Partnership (ESP)

Alan Dunlop Leading architects have detailed their long-standing concerns over public-private partnerships (PPP) contracts following the closure of schools in Edinburgh over safety fears.

Fresh after the signing of contracts for new schools in Campbeltown and Oban, Argyll and Bute Council has completed the contract for a £9 million new primary school in Kirn. To be built by Morrison Construction, the new Kirn Primary School has been designed to cater for 320 primary pupils together

An application to develop the Engine Shed building and site on St Leonard’s Lane into a small single malt whisky distillery and visitor centre has been submitted to the City of Edinburgh Council. Whisky expert, and former Master Distiller for The Macallan, David Robertson is behind plans to open T

A map showing the highest concentrations of cold homes across Scotland Political parties have been urged to commit to ridding Scotland of the “scourge” of cold homes by 2025 after new data revealed that there are up to 1.5 million cold homes in the country.

Planning decision times for major and local housing developments over the last quarter of 2015 were faster on average compared to the equivalent quarter the previous year, according to new figures. Statistics on quarterly planning performance in Scotland, published by the Scottish Government, reveal

The winning group at work - (c) www.agarchitectural.com The winners of Scotland’s first construction “hackathon” will have their innovative idea for a digital built heritage tool supported by the Construction Scotland Innovation Centre (CSIC).

image ©Historic Environment Scotland Exhibition celebrates graduates’ creativity

Developers have announced plans to build a new tower in Dubai to surpass the 828m high Burj Khalifa, currently the world’s tallest building. Emaar Properties enlisted architect Santiago Calatrava to design the tower project, which will be anchored with a complex mesh of cables.

Aberdeen City Council has released planning permission in principle for the new community of Countesswells, meaning work can begin on the landmark project this month.

Govanhill Baths (image: Hall Black Douglas Architects) Hall Black Douglas Architects along with engineer Arup has been appointed to the refurbishment project to transform the Edwardian Govanhill bathhouse in Glasgow into a ‘community wellbeing centre’.