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Lottery rejects £1.25m funding bid to build Gaelic heritage centre A bid to secure £1.25m from the lottery to build a Gaelic heritage centre on South Uist has been rejected.

A Boeing 737 aeroplane fuselage is to be transformed into a dining area at an entertainment centre in Glasgow. The go-karting and leisure centre named The Experience, based in Hillington, is located at a former Rolls Royce Aero factory and the social enterprise is looking to reconnect with that hist

Ted Ayres Bellway has revealed plan to build up to 10 per cent more homes this year after it sold a record 7,752 properties in the 12 months to end-July, helping to raise pre tax profits by 44 per cent.

A design contract notice worth up to £50 million for the A96 Dualling programme has been published today. Covering around 29 miles of the western section of the A96 east of Auldearn to east of Fochabers, the contract follows the award earlier this year of a major design contract worth £30m for the

A new investment vehicle that will provide up to 1,000 affordable homes for rent across Scotland was launched today. The Local Affordable Rented Housing Trust (LAR) is a Scottish charity set up to provide long term mid-market rented housing across Scotland.

View from the corner of West George Street and Holland Street Architects have submitted plans to transform an abandoned office tower in Glasgow city centre into modern accommodation for hundreds of students.

hub South West Scotland has confirmed that it has reached contract close on the £32.5 million Marr College project in collaboration with South Ayrshire Council. The project will see Kier Construction deliver an innovative comprehensive refurbishment, modernisation and expansion programme to the Tro

Alan Ferguson A powerful alliance of over 50 civic organisations is calling on the Scottish Government to end the blight of Scotland’s draughty, unhealthy homes by 2025.

The professional body for all of Scotland’s architects is asking the public to nominate their favourite Scottish buildings from the last 100 years. The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) is launching the initiative to mark the centenary of its founding, next year.

Alex Goodfellow Alex Goodfellow, group managing director of Stewart Milne Timber Systems, has been appointed as director of the Confederation of Timber Industries (CTI).

(from left) Gary McGregor, group managing director, CCG; Lynne Donnelly, chief executive, WSHA; Jackie McIntosh, group manager, Glasgow City Council, housing investment & regeneration and Councillor Greg Hepburn New £2.4m social housing development for East Glasgow

Richard Howson Carillion has signed contracts, secured preferred bidder positions and been awarded frameworks, worth some £1.7 billion, since 30 June 2015.

The last standing reminder of Edinburgh’s rubber mill is to be transformed into a printmaking facility after a grant of £4.5 million was secured from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). Renowned for being the birthplace of the Wellington boot, the modern motor car tyre, and the first ever traffic co

A proposal for the UK’s first patented prefabricated timber frame party wall system is one of the first six innovation projects to be approved by Construction Scotland Innovation Centre’s (CSIC) Technical Advisory Group of industry and academic experts. The new party wall system is the brainchil

Glasgow's skyline changed forever yesterday with the demolition of the last of the Red Road flats, although not everything went to plan. Two of the six iconic Red Road towers remained partially standing due to an unforeseen difficulty.