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Wages in the construction industry have risen at a faster rate than any other sector over the past 12 months, according to fresh analysis of the latest data. In the last year, average pay in the building trade shot up by 5.1 per cent, the examination of labour market statistics compiled by the Offic

Bill Cuthbert, health and safety director at SP Energy Networks, is encouraging construction workers to stop and think before they start work close to overhead power lines. Across the SP Energy Networks area which covers central and southern Scotland, Cheshire, Merseyside and North Wales, we manage

Latest National Museum of Scotland masterplan phase complete The third phase of Hoskins Architects’ masterplan works at The National Museum of Scotland is well underway with the base-build section of the project now complete.

Pupils at Forfar Academy watched as their head teacher was rescued by firefighters from the top of a crane on Friday. Melvyn Lynch had to be saved from a height of around 25 metres - but the lunchtime drama was actually a Scottish Fire and Rescue Service training exercise.

Tom Leggeat Springfield Properties has announced the appointment of two new executive members to its board of directors.

Kier Construction has been appointed as the construction partner to progress the next stage of a comprehensive backlog maintenance programme at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. The work will focus on the redevelopment of the accommodation above the main entrance to the Infirmary to convert the existing war

First minister Nicola Sturgeon with Paul Little, principal and chief executive of City of Glasgow College as they meet cadets A new £66 million “world-class campus with the ‘wow’ factor” opened on the banks of the River Clyde yesterday.

Ayrshire College’s new campus project in Kilmarnock has been awarded a BREEAM “outstanding” rating at its design stage. The accreditation is the highest standard awarded and has been secured by only three buildings in the Scottish further and higher education sector.

Councillors have today sounded what could be the death knell for development plans for an area of Common Good land in Forres. Members of Moray Council’s policy and resources committee agreed unanimously to recommend to the full council that plans for the site at Bogton Road should be abandoned.

Fergus Ewing Ministers are seeking a role in EU level talks on steel dumping.

A builder who fraudulently obtained £1,162 after he pretended to obtain planning permission for a client’s house extension has been given a community payback order. Janice Quinn, from Dunfermline, was falsely informed by Derek McCafferty that planning permission had been granted for plans to buil

David Philp delivering his keynote speech Over 130 senior executives attended the BIM Convention at the Glasgow City Hotel last week to listen to a wide variety of presentations on what BIM means for the construction industry.

Councillor David McBride, West Dunbartonshire Council convener of housing and communities, and Margaret Burgess MSP, housing and welfare minister, joined council representatives, contractors CCG and other politicians for the official opening of 37 new build council homes at Hillstreet Square, Dumbar

A city in Morocco is to become home to one of the world's largest solar power plants aiming to deliver half the country's energy by 2020. Based near the Sahara desert, Ouarzazate will see a complex of four linked solar mega-plants that, alongside hydro and wind, will help provide nearly half of Moro

The City of Edinburgh Council has unveiled plans to build 14,000 homes in the next ten years costing the local authority nearly £300 million. The proposals, which are designed to tackle the city’s growing population, are to be present to the council’s finance and resources committee on October