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An annual event that recognises outstanding people and businesses within the North East construction industry has launched this year’s search by revealing a new main sponsor for the first time in eight years. Scotia Homes has taken over the prestigious partnership from Stewart Milne Group and

Cala Group has boosted its sustainability targets with the 100% acquisition of timber frame construction specialist Taylor Lane Timber Frame Ltd. The investment will also support delivery of the group’s ambitious growth plans in the South of England.

Major improvement work is taking place at Kirkhill Primary in Broxburn and Livingston Village Primary. A joint £1.7 million renovation and extension programme will see major works carried out at both schools.

Independent decorator's merchant Brewers has acquired Stirling-based The Paint Shed, which has 20 stores across Scotland, for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition has provided growth capital investor BGF, which has backed The Paint Shed since 2020, with a successful exit.

Construction has begun at Sutherland Spaceport, the UK mainland's first vertical launch spaceport. Located on the North coast of Scotland, the spaceport will be the 'home' spaceport of Forres-based rocket and launch services company, Orbex, which will use the site to launch up to 12 orbital rockets

L&G is to cease production at its timber-frame modular housing factory and will make the "majority" of its 475 staff redundant following £174 million of losses over seven years. The insurance and pensions firm began building prefab houses at its Sherburn-in-Elmet factory, near Se

Updated plans for hundreds of new homes on the site of the former Snodgrass Flour Mill on Glasgow’s Riverside are being brought forward for public consultation.

Sales rates for homes built by Barratt Developments have been maintained throughout a difficult economic period leading the housebuilder to project that its full year adjusted profit before tax will be in line with current market expectations. In a trading update for the period from 1 Janu

Glasgow City Council has approved the programme for regeneration frameworks for four city centre districts. The plans for Cowcaddens, the Learning Quarter, the Merchant City and Townhead will be delivered over the next decade through District Regeneration Frameworks (DRFs) for each of the areas

Proposals by Muir Homes to develop 35 new houses on a vacant brownfield site in Dalgety Bay are set to be considered next week.

The German city of Freiburg has built the first cycle path with a photovoltaic roof in Europe. Constructed in cooperation with badenova and the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE), the 300-metre cycle path at the Freiburg Exhibition Centre is covered by 900 solar modul

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A solar scheme of "seismic proportions" is now live at Scottish Water’s most energy-intensive site.

Construction SMEs risk losing out in a competitive market if they don’t embrace the use of social value in procurement, according to a new report by the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB).

Infrastructure consulting firm AECOM has officially opened its new Bothwell Street office in Glasgow. The new office brings together AECOM’s Glasgow team on one site and is one of the first major office redevelopments AECOM has undertaken for its staff to reflect the new employee preference fo