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Lovell wins top industry award for health and safety Housing developer and regeneration specialist Lovell has scooped a top industry award for its outstanding health and safety approach.

John Logie Baird, the man who was the first in the world to televise objects in motion, has been inducted into the Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame. Launched in 2011 by The Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland (IESIS), the Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame is supported by engineeri

View from West Register Street The City of Edinburgh Council has given the green light to a £60 million regeneration project to the south east of St Andrew Square.

Councillors have approved plans for a £100 million expansion of two iconic whisky producers in Moray. Macallan was given the green light for a new cooperage and warehouse development on Speyside.

Steve Radley Construction firms remain highly optimistic about their business outlook, despite a slight dip in growth momentum last month, the results of a survey of purchasing managers have revealed.

The development of a new £39 million Community Campus in Forfar reached an important milestone on Wednesday after contractor Robertson Tayside ‘topped out’ the building. Celebrating the completion of the highest point of the structure, construction will now focus on making the building wind and

A demolition firm has been fined £5,000 after a worker fell from a scaffolding platform in Glasgow and suffered severe injuries. DSR Demolition Limited pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 6(3) of the Work at Height Regulations 2005 and Section 33(1)(c) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.

The Young Professionals in Construction (YPiC) networking group is to build on its hugely successful inaugural event with a second meeting, this time in Glasgow. The second YPiC Wednesday will be hosted in The Corinthian Club, on the 9th December from 6:30 pm till 8:30pm.

Planning officials have advised councillors to approve plans for 164 new homes in Perth. The Bellway Homes development will be situated on land to the west of Cherrybank Gardens and next to the Broxden services.

John Alexander Dundee City Council has announced plans to invest almost £4 million into improvements to multi-storey properties across the city.

Lesley Laird A Fife Council-led survey has revealed wide-spread support for an overhaul of the Scottish planning system to aid development planning and future housing delivery among local people, communities and businesses.

Students move into Partick development Partick’s latest student housing development has opened its doors to tenants following completion of work on the Falconer Chester Hall designed build.

Architect Ian Simpson has apologised for what residents have described as a howl, a hum and a scream emanating from a skyscraper in Manchester. The 47-storey Beetham Tower emits a weird and incredibly loud noise every time the wind picks up.

Scotland’s architecture will take centre stage during 2016, as Scots and visitors to Scotland join the most ambitious ever nationwide celebration of the built environment of a single country. Curated by the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS), the Festival of Architecture 2016 wil

The Scottish Government has surpassed its target of delivering 30,000 affordable homes in this parliamentary term thanks to a 10 per cent increase in the number of social sector homes completed in the past year, new figures have revealed. Official statistics released yesterday show that 3,879 new ho