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Margaret Burgess A 16 per cent increase in private-led new build homes has accounted for a large proportion of a continued rise in housing completions across the country.

James Forbes Successful cities are those cities with a feel about them - a ‘buzz in the air’. A city which embraces creativity, industry and innovation will be a successful city: capable of attracting the best businesses, the best people and competing on a European scale.

David Ross Plans for a £1 billion City Deal involving six local authorities moved a step closer today following a £275,000 investment by Fife Council.

UK construction companies recorded a slight rebound in output growth during May, but this only partially reversed the loss of momentum seen in April ahead of the general election, according to new statistics. The latest Markit/CIPS UK Construction PMI index made a small gain to 55.9 in May, up from

Hub South West and Graham Construction hand over the new Hunter Health Centre to NHS Lanarkshire. From left: Adam Finch, independent tester, AA Projects; Darren Muir, funder, technical advisor, MMAG; Joe Dowds, capital services manager, NHS Lanarkshire; Gordon Richardson, contracts manager, Graham F

The Stewart Milne Group will be highlighting significant opportunities for tradespeople and subcontractors to work with it on developments across Scotland at an industry event in Aberdeen next week. The housebuilder and timber systems manufacturer is holding a meet the buyer event in order to develo

Ryan Thomas Baillie, Connor Jackson, James Robert Henderson, and Andy McLaughlin are all working on the Riverside Campus development as part of the £228 million supercampus construction at City of Glasgow College The City of Glasgow College has underlined its commitment to providing employment oppo

V&A role for Dundee architects Dundee-based James F Stephen Architects has been appointed to work on the city’s flagship V&A design museum project.

Profits at Fife building firm Muir Group soared by almost £10 million last year after it successfully sold off three major development sites in Aberdeen. Results for the year ended January 2015 saw turnover accelerate to £114,676,000, a rise of over £40,000,000 on the previous year.

The University of Glasgow has submitted plans to transform an old Southern General site into a pioneering new medical research facility. Situated on Langlands Drive, the old neurosurgical block could house technology never used before in the UK, according to STV.

Stephen Billingham Balfour Beatty has appointed Stephen Billingham as a non-executive director with immediate effect.

Helge Hansen The Construction Scotland Innovation Centre has announced the appointment of Helge Hansen as its business development manager for the North of Scotland region.

Clydesdale Bank is being sued by a property developing couple who claim the Glasgow lender charged them more than £400,000 for an overdraft, which if true would make it the most expensive overdraft facility ever granted by a high street bank. Clydesdale granted Andy and Moira Pearson, who run award

A section of the new link road passes between Perth Crematorium and McDiarmid Park A small community council has warned that bulldozing land near a crematorium to make way for a new road could breach the human rights of relatives of the dead whose ashes have been scattered there.

Ryden to dispose of major Glasgow city centre site Ryden has won the mandate to dispose of a significant development site in the heart of Glasgow city centre.