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Vaughan Hart Today’s latest official labour market figures are further proof that rates of employment within the Scottish construction industry are proving slow to recover, according to the Scottish Building Federation.

MacLeod House US businessman Donald Trump has tabled fresh plans for a multi-million pound expansion of his Aberdeenshire golf resort – with a second course firmly back on the table.

The derelict Venue nightclub at Stack Leisure Park Sportswear tycoon Mike Ashley is set to launch Scotland’s first Sports Direct retail outlet and gym in Dundee.

First look inside Johnstone Town Hall as building set to open

Name and location of development: Central Bellsmyre - three sites at Aitkenbar Drive/Auchenreoch Avenue, Penniecroft Avenue and Whiteford Crescent.

A £5 million project to construct a distillery and visitor centre at Lindores Abbey in Fife could get started early next year after plans moved a step forward. The abbey in Newburgh is the site of the first recorded whisky production in Scotland in 1494, and it is envisaged that whisky distillation

A derelict school building in Aberdeen is set for a £20 million transformation into student accommodation for 400 people under plans by a UK property developer. Unite Students has bought the grounds of the listed Causewayend School after receiving planning permission last December. It is to create

Up to 364 new homes are set to be built on the former site of Strathclyde University's 31-acre Jordanhill campus in the west end of Glasgow.

A firm of building surveyors, project managers and cost consultants is looking to ramp up its Scottish operations following contract wins with the likes of John Menzies and Scottish Water. Watts Group has eight offices across the UK but is targeting Scotland for expansion as part of its business gro

St Patrick’s Primary School Inverclyde Council’s programme of schools investment is moving forward with the St Patrick’s Primary School project in for planning permission.

Wates Smartspace managing director Helen Bunch Wates rebrands fit-out division

The Butchart Centre Students at the University of Aberdeen are set to benefit from an £8 million redevelopment of its student union building in the heart of the Old Aberdeen campus.

Jim McGovern MP Dundee's V&A museum project could offer hope to around 250 construction staff from Muirfield Contracts which went into administration last week, according to an MP.

The University of Edinburgh is seeking a contractor to build its new £28m Data Technology Institute. Designed by Bennetts Associates, the Data Technology Institute is to be the third and final phase of the University’s Potterrow development. The first two phases were constructed and completed in

The planned merger between building materials giants Holcim and Lafarge to create the world’s biggest cement company has stalled after Holcim rejected the current terms. Switzerland-based Holcim, which includes UK arm Aggregate Industries, revealed today it wants to renegotiate the terms of the me