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The Metropolitan Police are considering the construction of a full-scale replica of a section of Grenfell Tower as part of a multi-million-pound effort to support future criminal prosecutions related to the 2017 fire that killed 72 people.

The sixth annual John Hartson Charity Golf Day, held at Bathgate Golf Club on Friday 2 May, raised an impressive £13,500 for The John Hartson Foundation, taking the total donation to over £120,000 to date.

A unique 200-year-old mud-and-stone house in Ireland is set to be dismantled to make way for road improvements. Located in Tullaroe, near Querrin, the structure is one of the last surviving examples of traditional mud housing in Ireland. Clare County Council has cited “road safety” conce

Balfour Beatty has reported a solid performance in the first quarter of 2025, ahead of its Annual General Meeting today.

Statera Energy has secured a resolution to grant planning permission from Aberdeenshire Council for the UK’s largest green hydrogen project.

Glen Earrach Energy (GEE) has submitted its application for a 2GW pumped storage hydro (PSH) project near Loch Ness, under Section 36 of the Electricity Act 1989.

Kilmac has promoted Ross Gallacher and Owen Hunter to senior quantity surveyor roles.

An office fit-out project by Morris & Spottiswood that incorporates modular construction and circular economy approaches has delivered embodied carbon savings equivalent to driving 45,255km, enough to circumnavigate the globe, in a large diesel car.

The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) has released its annual figures for 2024–25, revealing it delivered close to £130 million in grant funding to support construction employers and workforce development across the UK.

A business owner who conned dozens of customers out of more than £100,000 by breaking promises to build garden sheds and summerhouses has been jailed for three years and four months.  Alistair Baxter, 36, took thousands of pounds for the work from almost 70 people, some of them pensioners

House prices in Scotland rose over the past three months at the slowest rate seen since early 2024, according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Residential Market Survey, and respondents expect this weaker price growth trend to continue in the short-term amid an increase

National maintenance and decarbonisation contractor Novus Property Solutions has strengthened its operations team, recently appointing social housing repairs and maintenance expert Jason Smithies as head of operations for Scotland and the North East. Mr Smithies brings more than two decades of exper

Muir Homes is to regenerate a vacant brownfield site in the coastal town of Dalgety Bay in Fife with the start of construction of 37 homes. 

Construction has officially begun on the first phase of the Bellsmyre Regeneration project in West Dunbartonshire, marking a significant milestone in revitalising the area.

CECA Scotland has launched a new strategy to help tackle the civil engineering shortage in Scotland.  With over £70 billion of infrastructure investment in the pipeline through to 2035, Scotland’s civil engineering sector is at the heart of the nation’s future. Yet despite the