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Kevin Stewart MSP Council pension funds should invest more capital in local projects such as affordable housing despite the “risks” involved, according to a committee of MSPs.

Douglas Mcleod A study into the socio-economic footprint of Barratt Developments has found that the housebuilder’s Scottish operations have contributed more than £250 million to the economy during the past year.

Tony Fry Robertson Civil Engineering has this week completed a £3.5 million project to enable construction of Scotland’s only Life Science Enterprise Area.

Twenty new flats for elderly and disabled residents in Clydebank have been given the go ahead. The proposal to build two blocks of four-storey flats, which will be linked by a central glazed lobby, was granted planning permission on Wednesday.

Work has begun on the £4.29 million refurbishment of Kilmacolm Primary and Nursery School in Inverclyde. Designed by Elder and Cannon Architects and carried out by main contractor CBC Ltd, the project is the latest in Inverclyde Council’s unprecedented £270m Schools Estate programme delivering n

All images courtesy of Eddie Phillips Lighthouse Photography Scotland based fit-out contractor Morris & Spottiswood has completed a project to help transform Edinburgh’s famous Scottish Poetry Library.

Crossbasket Castle in Blantyre Historic Glasgow castle undergoes £9m hotel and venue transformation

Power supplier SSE has won Ofgem backing to design less intrusive electricity pylons for mountainous areas following complaints that new grid lines through the Highlands are unsightly and harmful for the environment. The BBC reports that another Scots company has won £13 million funding in the same

Alastair Wylie CCG (Scotland) Ltd has reported strong yearly growth figures in what it described as a “challenging period” for the sector.

ISG has been awarded the initial phase of a multi-million pound development to expand facilities and create additional maturation capacity at the Bruichladdich Distillery on the Isle of Islay, in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides. The new Coultorsay maturation warehouse complex will be built at the award-

Liberton High School West Lothian contractor Ashwood Scotland is enjoying an upsurge in fortunes after securing new building contracts valued in excess of £4.5 million.

Looking west along Froghall Terrace Plans have been revealed for hundreds of new homes, some of which will be affordable, on the site of a former BT telephone exchange in Aberdeen.

Jeff Fairburn Persimmon has unveiled plans to build over 80,000 new homes across the UK in the next five years.

Andrew Burns Partners behind the Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Deal hope to have a deal agreed by early next year after both the UK and Scottish governments showed their commitment to the £1 billion project.

Plans to transform the old Royal High School into a £75 million hotel have “overwhelming” support from the public, according to the largest polling exercise of its kind ever carried out in Scotland. A total of 5,000 people across 12 city wards were quizzed on the plans, the fourth such consulta