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The JR Group has appointed two new members of the team in managerial roles across the business. Eric Farren and Stephen Bishop will both support The JR Group in further building upon the successful pipeline of projects.

Planning approval has been achieved for 17 homes for affordable rent on a brownfield site in Falkirk.

Planning permission has been granted to deliver supported living bungalows on the site of a former Aberdeen school.

A former care home in Glasgow is to be transformed into 18 new apartments. Plans to convert the former Queen Mary Eventide Home in the Queens Park area were granted planning permission by councillors.

Redpath Construction has secured its first project with North Ayrshire Council for the refurbishment of Cheviot Court sheltered housing unit in Irvine. The project was awarded via mini competition against the Framework Agreement for the Refurbishment of Sheltered Housing Units in North Ayrshire.

Hundreds of iconic red phone boxes are currently for sale across Scotland for just £1 as the famous design approaches its 100th year.

MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant: Apex Hotels Ltd 

Planning permission has been granted for 128 houses and flats on a 2.5-hectare former ammunition factory in Carntyne.

A consultation has been launched into a "once in a lifetime" opportunity to regenerate Glasgow's Charing Cross district.

Built Environment – Smarter Transformation (BE-ST), Scottish Forestry and Zero Waste Scotland have published a first-of-its-kind report exploring timber cascading in Scotland.

Completion of the first opening road bridge at the River Clyde is a stage closer following the construction of an environmentally-friendly water channel. More than 60 people worked on the new open-air culvert which replaces an old outfall moved to make way for the new bridge.

Trade body the Painting and Decorating Association (PDA) has helped set the standard for apprentices embarking on their Level 2 Apprenticeships in the next academic year.

Richard Linacre has joined multi-disciplinary design, engineering and project delivery company BakerHicks as director for life sciences & industry in the UK. Focussing on delivering local support to the company’s existing and prospective clients across the UK life sciences and industrial s

Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) has received £11 million in an out-of-court settlement relating to the original design and construction of the Cairngorm funicular railway in the 1990s and early 2000s and guarantees in place with the previous operator.

A £3 million development of 18 new flats for affordable social rent has been completed on the site of the former Fairfield Community Centre in Perth. The two-bedroom flats will provide additional, much-needed social housing for tenants in the city.