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Plans for a major new Inverness development consisting of 60 new homes and a family restaurant have been granted approval by councillors. Aberdeen-based developer Kirkwood Homes and Tweed Estates applied to build the homes on land close to the city’s Asda supermarket at Slackbuie. A quarter of the

Housing associations collaborate to deliver new affordable homes for Methil Two Fife housing associations are working in partnership to deliver badly needed new affordable homes for the older and disabled people in Methil.

A 21-year-old Australian tradesman has been bitten by a venomous spider on the penis for a second time, the BBC has reported. The man was using a portable toilet on a Sydney building site on Tuesday, when he suffered a repeat of the incident five months ago when he was treated for a redback bite.

Builders’ merchant group Wolseley is to close 80 UK branches with the loss of 800 jobs as part of a £100 million restructuring, the firm announced today. Wolseley UK said the wide-ranging transformation plan, which only affects the firm’s plumbing & heating operations, is designed to delive

Artist’s impression of homes set for The Boulevard in Glasgow Housebuilder Persimmon is to invest £75 million in building 500 homes next to the Silverburn Shopping Centre in the south side of Glasgow.

Crieff Primary School Communities across Perthshire, Tayside, Forth Valley and Fife are benefitting from over £500 million of new infrastructure projects delivered by hub East Central Scotland, new figures have shown.

Amec Foster Wheeler has won a £7 million contract to provide a new effluent treatment plant for the Dounreay nuclear site. The facility is being built for Dounreay Site Restoration Limited (DSRL), the company responsible for decommissioning the nuclear site in Caithness.

Engineering contractors have welcomed the announcement that project bank accounts (PBAs) are to be used on building projects over £4 million which are procured by Scottish Government bodies. PBAs are ring-fenced accounts from which payments can be made directly and simultaneously by a client to con

Work on the new £70 million East Lothian Community Hospital will start in October after financial contracts were signed with the Scottish Government. The facility, which is being developed jointly by NHS Lothian and East Lothian Health and Social Care Partnership, will provide a fit-for-purpose fac

Young Professionals in Construction (YPiC) is set to hold its latest networking event in Edinburgh tomorrow to celebrate the forum’s first birthday. The forthcoming event will be hosted at Quartermile One from 6:30pm till 8:30pm.

Milestone reached on £30m Aberdeen Art Gallery refurb McLaughlin & Harvey has reached the highest point on the £30 million refurbishment of Aberdeen Art Gallery.

Acclaimed author JK Rowling has been given permission to build a £2 million equestrian centre at her family home in Edinburgh. The author of the "Harry Potter" book series and her husband Neil Murray were given planning permission by the City of Edinburgh Council last month to erect stables and two

Aberdeenshire Council has approved plans for a new gas to energy project in Banchory. Councillors on the policy and resources committee approved a contract to explore and develop a microgeneration project at the Crow’s Nest landfill site. The project will turn gas produced by the site into energy

Glasgow City Council has finalised its plans for a new build community campus building within the Sighthill Transformational Regeneration Area (TRA). Sitting adjacent to the new public square within the heart of the 50ha TRA masterplan, the facility will incorporate specialist and mainstream primary

Wick Community Campus (pic from Ryder Architecture) The handover of the new £48.5 million Wick school campus in the Highlands has been delayed until December, with pupils not expected to move in until next year.