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Power supplier SSE has won Ofgem backing to design less intrusive electricity pylons for mountainous areas following complaints that new grid lines through the Highlands are unsightly and harmful for the environment. The BBC reports that another Scots company has won £13 million funding in the same

Alastair Wylie CCG (Scotland) Ltd has reported strong yearly growth figures in what it described as a “challenging period” for the sector.

ISG has been awarded the initial phase of a multi-million pound development to expand facilities and create additional maturation capacity at the Bruichladdich Distillery on the Isle of Islay, in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides. The new Coultorsay maturation warehouse complex will be built at the award-

Liberton High School West Lothian contractor Ashwood Scotland is enjoying an upsurge in fortunes after securing new building contracts valued in excess of £4.5 million.

Looking west along Froghall Terrace Plans have been revealed for hundreds of new homes, some of which will be affordable, on the site of a former BT telephone exchange in Aberdeen.

Jeff Fairburn Persimmon has unveiled plans to build over 80,000 new homes across the UK in the next five years.

Andrew Burns Partners behind the Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Deal hope to have a deal agreed by early next year after both the UK and Scottish governments showed their commitment to the £1 billion project.

Plans to transform the old Royal High School into a £75 million hotel have “overwhelming” support from the public, according to the largest polling exercise of its kind ever carried out in Scotland. A total of 5,000 people across 12 city wards were quizzed on the plans, the fourth such consulta

£2m refurbishment commences at Glasgow’s Tay House The Tay House office building on Bath Street in Glasgow is to receive an extensive refurbishment to 50,000 sq ft of its office space.

Dundee's Baldragon Academy can now proceed Around £330 million of investment in health and education facilities has been given the go-ahead following an Office for National Statistics (ONS) review of proposals developed by the Scottish Futures Trust (SFT).

Developers behind plans to create a £140 million film and television studio development in Midlothian have requested that the Scottish Government call-in their application for consideration claiming the council is taking too long to make a decision. Scottish International Studios, otherwise known a

Plans to upgrade Glasgow’s Kelvinbridge underground station have been lodged by Austin-Smith:Lord. The firm wants to give the station a makeover by installing a new cupola and apply new escalator cladding.

Moxon Architects has secured planning consent for a ‘climate proof’ forest home within the Cairngorms National Park. The timber-clad scheme will be nestled in a redundant quarry and will join a small cluster of houses and community buildings which are surrounded by the national park’s Crathie

Mark Haddow, director of LW Haddow (centre), is presented with the SNIPEF Business of the Year Award 2015 by SNIPEF President John Leonard (right), and BPEC chief executive, Paul Johnston (left) SNIPEF, the trade association for plumbing and heating firms in Scotland and Northern Ireland, has awarde

Kemnay Academy pupils Pupils from seven Aberdeen City and Shire schools got a glimpse of what a career in construction might hold for them thanks to an event at Robert Gordon University (RGU) this week.