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Sarah Speirs The UK has seen its sixth consecutive quarterly decline in office space availability though office and industrial sector rents are expected to rise at the fastest rate since 1998 over next quarter, the latest RICS commercial property survey has revealed.

Lovell safety performance recognised by RoSPA President’s Award Calum McKay and Frances Richardson

Barr Construction has issued a call to the local construction industry to get involved in the first phase of the renovation of Glasgow’s historic Kelvin Hall. Main contractor Barr will undertake a full transformation of the much-loved city landmark to create a unique community cultural hub.

A £30 million Old Town development in Edinburgh has been named the best building in Scotland for 2014.

Network Rail has awarded alliancing contracts to Costain and Morgan Sindall to deliver the core physical works on the Edinburgh-Glasgow Improvement Programme (EGIP). The £250 million deal will see Network Rail and its contractors electrify the main line between Scotland’s two biggest cities, comp

Creative Scotland has awarded more than £3.5 million of Large Capital Funding to help three organisations realise ambitious plans to transform cultural facilities.

Construction output rose at its slowest rate in five months in October as residential work growth eased off, according to the latest Markit/CIPS UK Construction PMI index. Office and retail building has taken over as the main driver of construction growth from housing.

Commercial property sales in Scotland almost doubled in 2014’s third quarter, rising from £592m in Q2 to £962m in Q3. This figure represents the best quarterly return on commercial property sales in Scotland since 2008 and the onset of the recession.

Trapped Borders Railway worker cut free A construction worker on the Borders Railway was airlifted to hospital after he was trapped by his overturned truck.

Fife Council has approved plans for a new £500 million neighbourhood at Kingslaw in Kirkcaldy. Over a thousand new homes, a primary school, shops and a community centre will be provided by the new development.

Eight men appeared in court yesterday charged in connection with alleged bribes to City of Edinburgh Council officials for building repair contracts. The defendants are believed to include former staff from the council and Action Building Contracts Limited, the contractors involved in council repair

A supermarket which challenged a decision of Perth and Kinross Council to alter an agreement with a rival company and allow it to open a new superstore nearby before completing necessary road improvement works has had its petition for judicial review dismissed. Tesco argued that the decision by the

The Employment Appeal Tribunal has ruled that workers should have overtime included in holiday pay.

Work has commenced on the eye-catching new entrance canopies for St Enoch Subway Station in Glasgow which are set to transform St Enoch Square. SPT’s main contractor, Graham Construction, has started installation of the steel frame for the new station canopy at the station’s north entrance at Ar

Persimmon remains confident of delivering further growth in Group operating profits after encouraging levels of customer confidence in the UK housing market, it said today. Releases its third quarter Interim Management Statement, which covers the period from 1 July 2014 to 3 November 2014, the Group