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A joint venture between Costain and Vinci is to begin on a £100 million waste water tunnel project in Glasgow. Work on the Shieldhall Tunnel scheme has taken a step closer after cabinet secretary Roseanna Cunningham officially launched the 1,000-tonne tunnel boring machine (TBM) at a ceremony last

The contract for building the new Torvean Golf Course in Inverness has been awarded to a joint venture partnership between Coffey Construction Ltd and EGS Golf Ltd. The tender value is £5.57 million for the golf course construction and Torvean housing site preparation works.

(from left) The Hardies team by the Trump Helicopter - Martin McCabe, Danny McArthur, Derek Ferrier (managing partner) and Craig Smart Hardies reflects on work at Trump Turnberry

A construction worker went on a spending spree after his boss mistakenly overpaid him by £40,000 all because the ditsy manager got a decimal point in the wrong place, according to local press. Steven Burke, of Scarborough, had been expecting to be paid £446.60 but couldn’t believe his luck when

India Quay will create a new, mixed use, canalside quarter on the former brewery site The developer of a major regeneration project in the heart of Edinburgh has revealed its new India Quay development could boost the local economy by more than £30 million over the next three years.

Detailed plans have been submitted to transform Aberdeen’s Atholl House site into student accommodation and a 192-bed hotel. Atholl Square Developments wants to demolish the building on Guild Street and build a site containing 413 units of student accommodation and a hotel, alongside a retail

Richard Howson Extensive work to manage the potential impact of the UK leaving the European Union appears to have paid off for Carillion, which is remaining upbeat about its prospects for the year.

A thirteenth consecutive quarter increase in the sale of construction products has did little to quash growing pessimism about prospects for the coming year ahead. The latest State of Trade Survey from the Construction Products Association reported continued growth in sales of construction products

An artist's impression of the Gatty Marine Lab at St Andrews East Sands A new marine laboratory for the University of St Andrews has been approved by Fife Council.

Tom Barclay Wheatley Group has appointed Tom Barclay as its new group director of property and development.

A key milestone for the Cupar Burgh Chambers project has now been reached, with the submission of the planning and listed building consent applications to Fife Council’s planning department. Fife Historic Buildings Trust has been working Fife Council to transform the previously empty building and

Staff and partner organisations who have contributed to the Affordable Housing Programme’s success marked out the 2,700 target figure at Fife House Fife on track to meet ambitious affordable housing commitment

The Balmoral Hotel Organisers from Cake Fest Scotland are seeking amateur bakers to help create a giant edible map of Scotland.

A former school building next to Edinburgh’s Royal Mile is to be converted into a boutique hotel and restaurant as part of the £150 million New Waverley development currently transforming the city’s Old Town. The C-listed red sandstone Canongate Venture building, one of Edinburgh’s last remai

Scottish Borders Council has given the green light to plans for a £10 million project to build a whisky distillery and visitor centre on a former industrial site in Hawick. Submitted by Gray Macpherson Architects in March, the Three Stills Company venture on Commercial Road could create 20 jobs.