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Plans have been submitted for a 40 bed accommodation block in Dornoch for the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI). Designed by ThreeSixty Architecture, the development will form part of a larger roll out of accommodation in the region for the university

The Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh Infrastructure projects totalling almost £6 billion will be under construction throughout Scotland during 2016 with more Scottish employers than ever before accessing public contracts as a result, a new report has revealed.

£3.2m Fairfield Housing Co-operative development nears completion in Perth Much needed affordable homes are nearing completion in the penultimate phase of the Muirton Park regeneration in Perth.

Urban planning has changed dramatically over the years. Architects at Cantrell & Crowley take a look at some simple visualisations of complex planning ideas that have changed how we live.

A planning application for 98 homes at Park Quadrant in the West End of Glasgow has been submitted to the city's council. Initial plans for the A-listed Victorian development were reduced from 111 properties after residents’ views were taken into consideration. The revised proposals also include r

Queen Margaret Drive Plans are being advanced for an £80 million Innovation Park next to the Musselburgh campus of Queen Margaret University (QMU).

Plans for a £6.7m office block at Shawfield Housing minister Margaret Burgess MSP has announced the award of an additional £3 million for Clyde Gateway to support further development of vacant and derelict sites in Dalmarnock, Rutherglen and Shawfield.

Kingdom Housing Association's employability project, Fife Works, is building on the success of its recent Construction Academy, and is launching a further Academy this week to help move more unemployed young people into the construction industry. Part of the Academy is a 2 week work experience place

Construction and engineering specialist CBES has been announced as the winner of the prestigious Building Services Specialist of the Year category at the 2016 CN Specialist Awards. The awards are the only national awards that recognise and celebrate the very best specialist contractors in the UK. Th

Construction apprenticeships across Great Britain are up 12 per cent in the past year, reaching levels not seen since before the 2008 financial crisis. New statistics released by the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB), for National Apprenticeship Week (14-18 March), reveal that 22,496 young

Rod McLennan and Jill Adie Robert Gordon University (RGU) is linking up with one of the biggest planning, procurement and delivery organisations in the North of Scotland to give its students access to industry experts.

Richard Lyle MSP and Gordon Reid MSP visits Kier Construction

The Chartered Institute of Building has developed a competition that challenges Minecraft players to come up with imaginative solutions to future housing needs. With more than 70 million copies sold, Minecraft has taken the online gaming world by storm and the CIOB aims to recognise its potential to

Forth Road Bridge A Scottish Parliament inquiry has concluded that the structural defects that led to the closure of the Forth Road Bridge last December could not have been foreseen.

Vaughan Hart Output from the Scottish construction industry reached a record high last year on £14.5 billion, according to new statistics.