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Christina McKelvie Christina McKelvie MSP has urged the chairs of the Westminster Scottish affairs select committee and Holyrood’s infrastructure committee to consider holding a joint inquiry into blacklisting.

A planned £15 million upgrade of Glasgow's George Square has been put on hold, according to reports. In 2012, Glasgow City Council leader Gordon Matheson launched a design competition to give the historic heart of the city a new look.

BAM has been appointed by hub West Scotland to deliver a new £22 million leisure centre on the banks of the Clyde for West Dunbartonshire Council. Work has already started on the state of the art four-storey building, located in what was once the heart of Clydebank’s shipbuilding industry on the

Macdonald Rusacks has been given the go-ahead for a £7 million extension to the Rusacks Hotel overlooking the 18th green at The Old Course in St Andrews. The 44-suite extension will include a rooftop restaurant, bar and terrace, as well as glass-fronted suites allowing visitors to witness up-close

A new report is to explore how Scotland’s proud engineering tradition can be harnessed to tackle fuel poverty, improve public health, create jobs and slash carbon emissions. Commissioned by the Low Carbon Infrastructure Task Force, which includes key figures from engineering, finance, construction

In less than three weeks, industry leaders and property professionals from across Scotland will gather at Property 2015 in Edinburgh. The challenges for the property sector continue to increase for the public and private sector alike. New development and regeneration of our existing built environmen

CMS Window Systems’ Innovation Hub located on the company’s HQ and main manufacturing site at Castlecary CMS Window Systems named finalist in green VIBES awards

Councillors have decided not to relax planning conditions to try to resolve a dispute that is holding up a major 3,000-home development in Aberdeen. The £700 million scheme at Countesswells, west of Hazlehead Park, was approved last October but work is being delayed because of a ‘Section 75’ di

The Institute of Neurological Sciences in Glasgow is to undergo a £40 million modernisation to return the building into a leading edge facility for 21st century medicine and research. The hospital building, which opened in 1971, will be transformed to include a £5m University of Glasgow and NHS Gr

Councillors are to consider proposals to create a £17 million state of the art education campus in Alexandria incorporating two schools, an early learning centre and a specialist language unit. The proposals would develop a new Riverside Early Learning and Childcare Centre and new Renton Primary Sc

Mark Robertson A research report which will inform the basis for the next wave of planning reform, has been published by the Scottish Government.

Professor David Adams By Professor David Adams at the University of Glasgow

Councillor Ian Miller, chair Perth Theatre project board, Magnus Linklater, chair Horsecross Arts and Kevin Dickson managing director of Robertson Construction Tayside. (Photo credit: Fraser Band) Work to restore and redevelop one of Scotland’s best loved and most historic venues moved forward thi

Inverurie has been named as Scotland’s solar capital as new figures reveal the nation’s love affair with home-grown energy for the first time. Figures from industry body Scottish Renewables and Scotland’s Rural College show that around 42,000 solar schemes (equivalent to around 660,000 250W so

Big Ben challenge raises thousands A team of brave trekkers scaled the heights of Britain’s highest mountain to raise money for a very special children’s charity.