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Balfour Beatty has arrived on site to begin work on a new passenger concourse at Dundee Railway Station. The £28 million six-storey development will include ticketing facilities, as well as a café/restaurant and retail space, while a new 120 bedroom Sleeperz hotel will be accommodated on three flo

Malcolm Fraser Architect Malcolm Fraser reflects on the experience of having to close his practice despite producing buildings feted by colleagues and politicians.

(from left) Allan Callaghan of Cruden, John Swinney and Rufus Logan of BRE An innovative new app has been launched which promises to help social landlords and housebuilders in providing more energy efficient homes, reducing fuel poverty and carbon emissions and improving the health of tenants.

A new implementation plan has been launched that sets out the strategy for public sector projects within Scotland to adopt BIM Level 2 by April 2017. Presented by the Scottish BIM delivery group, which was set up by the Scottish Futures Trust and the Scottish Government, the plan’s brief is to sup

The £1 billion transformation of Dundee Waterfront, the third largest regeneration project in the UK, has been shortlisted for a prestigious award at MIPIM UK. The Dundee project, spanning 240 hectares of land stretching 8km along the River Tay, is the figurehead for the ongoing regeneration of Dun

(from left) Colin Forfar, Schneider Electric; Archie Jay; Hamish Miller, CABLEtalk (pic by Mike Wilkinson) It was another year of sparkling success for the big winner at the prestigious awards ceremony hosted by SELECT, the campaigning trade body for the electrotechnical industry in Scotland.

Lottery rejects £1.25m funding bid to build Gaelic heritage centre A bid to secure £1.25m from the lottery to build a Gaelic heritage centre on South Uist has been rejected.

A Boeing 737 aeroplane fuselage is to be transformed into a dining area at an entertainment centre in Glasgow. The go-karting and leisure centre named The Experience, based in Hillington, is located at a former Rolls Royce Aero factory and the social enterprise is looking to reconnect with that hist

Ted Ayres Bellway has revealed plan to build up to 10 per cent more homes this year after it sold a record 7,752 properties in the 12 months to end-July, helping to raise pre tax profits by 44 per cent.

A design contract notice worth up to £50 million for the A96 Dualling programme has been published today. Covering around 29 miles of the western section of the A96 east of Auldearn to east of Fochabers, the contract follows the award earlier this year of a major design contract worth £30m for the

A new investment vehicle that will provide up to 1,000 affordable homes for rent across Scotland was launched today. The Local Affordable Rented Housing Trust (LAR) is a Scottish charity set up to provide long term mid-market rented housing across Scotland.

View from the corner of West George Street and Holland Street Architects have submitted plans to transform an abandoned office tower in Glasgow city centre into modern accommodation for hundreds of students.

hub South West Scotland has confirmed that it has reached contract close on the £32.5 million Marr College project in collaboration with South Ayrshire Council. The project will see Kier Construction deliver an innovative comprehensive refurbishment, modernisation and expansion programme to the Tro

Alan Ferguson A powerful alliance of over 50 civic organisations is calling on the Scottish Government to end the blight of Scotland’s draughty, unhealthy homes by 2025.

The professional body for all of Scotland’s architects is asking the public to nominate their favourite Scottish buildings from the last 100 years. The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) is launching the initiative to mark the centenary of its founding, next year.