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An £8 million Gaelic primary school is set to be built in Portree on Skye after councillors gave planning permission for the development. The cost includes the demolition of the Margaret Carnegie Hostel and Boys Hostel which will make way for the new building.

Castle Mill Works in Edinburgh A Glasgow cemetery which forms an important part of Scotland’s Jewish heritage, the City Observatory Complex in Edinburgh and an extremely rare locomotive turntable in Aberdeen are amongst the latest recipients of Historic Scotland’s Building Repairs Grants Scheme.

The Mossend site Plans for a new rail freight terminal in North Lanarkshire have been approved in principle by Scottish ministers.

Morrison Construction is celebrating contract wins in Kilmarnock and Prestwick with a combined worth in excess of £5 million. Spirit Aerosystems (Europe) Ltd has chosen the contractor to construct its new specialist paint facility at Prestwick, in a contract worth £4.1m in total. The project invol

Hillcrest delivers 18 new affordable homes in Edinburgh An eye-catching and much-needed development of 18 new flats for social rent was handed over to delighted tenants in Edinburgh last week.

Student accommodation specialist Empiric has acquired part of a site in Stirling on which it plans to build a 200-bed development comprising a mix of studios and apartments. The full site, off Forthside Way, has planning consent for 214 residential apartments and it is likely that the balance of the

Plans for a trio of bespoke detached villas overlooking Ravelston Quarry in Edinburgh have been unveiled by Michael Laird Architects. Nestled in to the centre of the disused old quarry near Ravelston House, the practice collaborated with Rankin Fraser to create three separately designed, high spec,

Winning design for viewpoint on the banks of Loch Lubnaig designed by Ruaraidh Campbell Moir An architectural design competition will be launched next week inviting young architects to design one of three new installations to be built as part of the widely acclaimed Scottish Scenic Routes initiative

A thief has admitted stealing rolls of lead from a Dundee roofing supplier by putting them the account of former building firm Muirfield Contracts. The Courier has reported that Steven Flynn admitted stealing the lead rolls over several trips to Asphaltic Roofing Supplies on Dryburgh Industrial Esta

The Chartered Institute of Building has unveiled a 69 strong shortlist for its Construction Manager of the Year Awards. The finalists represent the successful construction management of a combined £2.3 billion worth of UK building assets.

Andy Kerr, MD of CMS Window Systems receives his EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2015 Award from BBC TV journalist and presenter Jackie Bird CMS Window Systems founder shortlisted for top UK entrepreneurship award

Arbroath based architectural practice The Voigt Partnership has won a national design competition to create a garden room within the grounds of Ninewells Hospital, Dundee. The competition asked entrants to create a bespoke Garden Room at the community garden at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee – a pla

People across Argyll and Bute who have completed developments in the past three years can enter the council’s third sustainable design awards. Recognising, promoting and celebrating examples of exceptional design quality, the awards give developers the opportunity to have their work endorsed by pl

Faslane living accommodation Problem Ministry of Defence contracts at the Faslane Naval Base have resulted in a pre-tax loss of £27.2 million during the first half of this year for Morgan Sindall.

A loss of momentum in housebuilding and civil engineering has slowed the pace of growth in Britain's construction industry, according to a survey published today. The monthly Markit/CIPS UK construction purchasing managers' index (PMI) fell to 57.1 after hitting a four-month high of 58.1 in June.