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Over the course of 2024, Scottish Construction Now published more than 240 articles in our popular And Finally section – sharing offbeat and weird construction news stories from around the world. But which were the most popular? Read on to find our most-read And Finallys of 2024.

A proposed development promising 3,000 new homes on the site of Edinburgh Airport’s disused runway has received outline planning permission from the City of Edinburgh Council.

Engineering company BAM Nuttall has been fined after a labourer died during the construction of a wind farm on the Shetland Islands.

The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) has today unveiled new dates for its Consensus process with the procedure now starting on 17 March 2025 and continuing until 9 May. The five-week move allows for the publication of the ITB review – now anticipated in early 2025 – to enable

Domestic roofing business Taylor Roofs is set for continued growth after expanding into a new headquarters.

The latest HPI for Scotland show the average price of a property in Scotland in October 2024 was £197,000, an increase of 5.5% when compared to October 2023.

A £250 million plan to transform Glasgow's Charing Cross with homes, student flats and hotel space as well as the potential removal of a bridge over the M8 has been given the go-ahead in principle.

Cala Homes (East) is to deliver 15 new homes on behalf of West Lothian Council as part of its Preston Glade development in Linlithgow.

A National Flood Advisory Service will be established to improve Scotland’s flood resilience and embed best practice on a nationwide scale. The service is one of the actions in Scotland’s first National Flood Resilience Strategy, published yesterday. It will provide support and advice on

CCG has commenced its latest window replacement contract in the city of Glasgow with Partick Housing Association.

Housing developer Lovell, part of Morgan Sindall, recently received the prestigious global health and safety award from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) for the 20th consecutive year. 

Work has begun on a £12.6 million investment project to upgrade the Annexe of the University of Glasgow Library, being designed and built by Robertson Construction Central West.

Dougall Baillie Associates (DBA), one of the largest independent engineering consultancy firms in Scotland, is once again enhancing its industry-envied talent pool with a new intake of graduate apprentices (GAs). For the fifth year in a row, the 41-employee, East Kilbride-based firm has taken on you

Midlothian councillors have approved the draft Delivery Programme for the Midlothian Local Development Plan 2017 (MLDP) public consultation.

ILI Group has secured Section 36 planning consent for its 100MW Flemyland battery energy storage system (BESS) project in North Ayrshire by Scottish ministers. This milestone marks the third major planning approval for ILI in the final quarter of 2024, following consents for the 200MW Whitehill proj