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Construction starts on retirement living development in Bishopbriggs

Royal Hospital for Sick Children Edinburgh and Department of Clinical Neurosciences view from above Construction of a major new healthcare facility in Edinburgh is set to start after the financial contracts were agreed.

The completed development Kingdom Housing Association has announced the completion of the final phase of the £17 million Tanshall and Caskieberran redevelopment project in Glenrothes.

Output in the construction industry has been estimated to have increased by 7.4 per cent last year when compared to 2013, according to the latest figures. Data for the fourth quarter of last year from the Office for National Statistics revealed that all work types recorded increases except infrastru

Plans to create 323 new homes on the site of the former Royal Cornhill Hospital have been supported by Aberdeen City Council. The council’s planning development management committee expressed a willingness to approve the scheme from Stewart Milne Homes, Barratt East Scotland and NHS Grampian, subj

An Arbroath quarry operator has been fined for serious safety failings after a dumper truck driver died when his vehicle reversed over a stop block to the quarry floor below. Joseph Troup, 76, from Forfar, had worked for D Geddes (Contractors) Ltd at its Hatton Mill Quarry in Kinnell, Froickheim for

Paul Doyle Geotechnical specialists Bachy Soletanche has invested for growth in Scotland with the appointment of Paul Doyle as new contracts manager.

Glasgow's Red Road flats to be immortalised in the new archive Digital archive for UK’s past and present tower blocks

Meadowbank Stadium Local authorities across Scotland have been setting out their spending priorities in the midst of tough financial challenges.

A £6.5 million project to create a major new heritage and nature park will bring together 20sq km of lochs, parks, nature reserves and woodlands between Glasgow and Coatbridge, Glasgow City Council's sustainability and the environment policy development committee has heard.

Plans have been lodged by Rossnow Leisure to replace a building destroyed in a blaze on the beach esplanade in Aberdeen. Jimmy Chung's restaurant was badly damaged in February of last year.

The development in Isla Road, Perth McCarthy & Stone’s Perth and Kinross retirement developments near completion

Mike Putnam Skanska UK’s construction business has continued it good performances with major building and infrastructure contract wins.

Stuart MacGregor Scottish house builder and timber systems manufacturer Stewart Milne Group has announced the appointment of a new group finance director.

John Swinney A number of projects to construct new health centres and schools with money from the private sector are to be put on hold amid contractual problems.