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Renfrewshire construction company CGC has made a huge cash donation that will help to light up the lives of impoverished African villagers. CGC, which is based in Linwood, handed over a cheque for £3,000 that will be used by intrepid charity volunteer Elaine Scott to help women in Malawi set u

Work is underway on a new access road, car park and landscaping as part of Midlothian Council’s ambitious Destination Hillend project.

As part of its commitment to local authorities across Scotland to do what it can to tackle the litter emergency that faces every community every day, volunteers from Taylor Wimpey rolled up their sleeves to support Fife Council to litter-pick recently in two areas – Pilgrims Way in Cairneyhill

Cala Homes (West) has made a cash donation to a major Scottish-born charity to help with its efforts to end homelessness across the city. Following Cala’s first donation of £2,000 at the start of the pandemic, the West of Scotland region is gifting a further £3,000 to Social Bite,

The final phase of a development project in Goathill reached a significant milestone recently with the completion of the care home and housing with extra care facilities, both constructed by McLaughlin & Harvey.

A primary one class from Shortlees Primary School in Kilmarnock has won a health and safety design competition organised by Connect Modular, part of the Wee House Group, who are working with Cunninghame Housing Association to deliver 101 modular affordable homes to the Shortlees area. The winning de

Initial plans have been drawn up for five blocks of affordable flats on the site of a former Perth hospital.

Planning permission in principle is being sought for a new development in Levenmouth which includes around 1,850 homes, a new school and the scope for retail and leisure facilities.

The first images showing how the new Paisley Grammar School Community Campus will look have now been revealed.

Castle Building Services has appointed Neil Hutchinson as operations manager, Mark Jenkins as mechanical project engineer and Richard Learmouth as senior quantity surveyor. Both Mark Jenkins and Richard Learmouth will be based at the company’s headquarters in South Tyneside with Neil Hutchinso

A weekly series of webinars is being launched by a new website, seeking to crowdsource content to make our places in Scotland better. placedesignscotland.com has just launched - with a huge amount of pre-launch archive - and comprises news, comment and features on place-related issues in the country

Construction works are officially underway at a new care home in Livingston.

The house where Adolf Hitler was born is to be repurposed as a human rights training centre for Austrian police officers. The redevelopment of the 17th century house in Braunau am Inn at a cost of €20 million will begin later this year after an expert committee rejected alternative proposals to

German science and technology giant Merck has announced plans to invest €35 million (£30m) in the expansion of its biosafety testing capabilities including a new 1,200-square-meter facility in Glasgow.

Work on a new £24 million Passivhaus primary school for Irvine has officially commenced. North Ayrshire provost Anthea Dickson carried out the official ground-breaking duties to signal the start of construction of the new facility at Montgomerie Park.