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Allan Callaghan The UK’s construction output fell in November to its biggest annual drop since May 2013, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said today.

The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) has announced plans to shed 46 jobs in a restructuring of its middle management. In a statement today CITB said it is reforming significantly as not enough employers currently benefit from funding and support and many find the organisation too slow and

John Alexander A new report has identified one hundred sites across Dundee that could play host to thousands of new homes.

Fullarton Community Hub A £1.1 million lottery award will help towards the construction of a new community hub in Irvine.

Regeneration funds earmarked for deprived urban areas are being siphoned into city-centre commercial developments and exacerbating inequality, a new report has found. Independent regeneration network SURF, which represents 250 organisations across Scotland, found that half of £50 million earmarked

2015 EAA Building of the Year Winner – Advocate’s Close by Morgan McDonnell Architecture (Images courtesy of Kevin McCollum) Submissions are now being taken for the prestigious Edinburgh Architectural Association Awards.

An architectural render of Alumno’s Powis Place development Engineering students who represent the future of the construction industry have been given a personal insight into one of the most important projects taking place in Aberdeen – the creation of much needed new accommodation for academics

Scottish Water begins £10m waste water treatment scheme in Orkney Scottish Water is underway with a waste water treatment works (WWTW) upgrade project in Orkney.

Tradesmen and women are bucking the ‘cowboy builder’ stereotype but are increasingly under-rated by their customers and suffer from unfavourable typecasting, according to new research. Despite acknowledging positive personal experiences, AXA Insurance found that 60 per cent of people surveyed sa

Technology in the 21st Century is providing us with the means to communicate our thoughts and ideas across the planet in a way that would have been unthinkable, even 10 years ago. However good the technology is, it cannot pick up the subtleties of a language, the culture that underpins it, or even t

A construction worker has died following an accident on the Third Don Crossing site in Aberdeen yesterday afternoon. Emergency services were called to the site around 4.45pm but the man, who has been named as Ian Walker, 58, from Dundee, died of his injuries.

A potential buyer has emerged for the two Scottish plants of beleaguered metal company Tata Steel. According to reports, international firm Liberty House has declared an interest in buying the sites in Dalzell and Clydebridge after Tata announced its decision to shed 270 jobs the factories last year

Doug McLeod Housebuilder Barratt Developments has announced plans to open 14 new sites creating 1420 new homes across Scotland.

The Accounts Commission has urged Scotland’s local authorities to further improve the way they manage major projects like schools, roads, housing and flood prevention. Over the last three years councils spent £7 billion on capital investment - more than half of Scottish public sector capital expe

Skilled construction labour shortages are pushing wages in the sector far above the national average, according the latest survey by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). The RICS UK Construction Market Survey shows that 61 per cent of construction professionals throughout the UK have