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Five huge luxury mansions each worth £1 million each have been torn down after they were built in breach of planning regulations.

Property, construction, and infrastructure consultancy Perfect Circle has announced that director and sector specialist Richard Whitehead will return to the role of chair. Picking up the baton from fellow Perfect Circle senior management board representative Duncan Green, Richard will be taking on t

Kier has pulled out of talks to acquire Tilbury Douglas, the construction arm of the collapsed group Interserve, according to reports.

The family of a man who died after raising an action against his former employer for damages related to asbestos-related lung cancer has been permitted to enter the claim by a judge in the Outer House of the Court of Session.

Electrical Specialist Solutions (ESS), a business formed in 2020 but owned and operated by two seasoned Scots electrical engineers whose teams of sub-contractors operate globally, has opened its first office in Glasgow city centre. Both of its directors, Alan Glen and Alan Mulligan, had worked all o

The Wates Group has reported its highest ever operating profit of £40 million after a record year for orders. The business secured £2.3 billion of new work during 2021 and ended the year with a record forward order book of £7.1bn, up 7% from its previous record in 2020.

A principal contractor has been sentenced after he was found to have supervised unsafe excavation work in Greater Manchester and allowed some workers to carry out their jobs barefoot.

Civil engineering heavyweight Simon Wright OBE has taken a role with energy storage business Gravitricity as an independent advisor to the board as the company advances its commercialisation plans. Gravitricity specialises in gravity energy storage and last summer successfully commissioned and teste

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Collective Architecture director Jude Barber has been named by the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) in its 2022 intake of Fellows, joining other names from the arts, business, public service, and civil society as well as academia from Scotland and beyond. The 80 new appointments will be joining the

A traditional building skills demonstration has been delivered for young people at Jedburgh Grammar Campus, one of the final elements of the five-year Jedburgh Conservation Area Regeneration Scheme (CARS) programme.

Network Rail has submitted a planning application to Fife Council for the diversion route and river crossing required during the work on the Leven (Bawbee) bridge.

Scottish developer Kelvin Properties has made its first move into Edinburgh with plans for new homes. The urban regeneration specialist has completed the purchase of a site in Canonmills that was formerly home to a charity’s furniture warehouse, where it plans to build 48 new apartments includ

Contractor A.C. Whyte & Co. Ltd welcomed MSP Gordon MacDonald and Councillor Neil Gardiner, ward councillor for Pentland Hills to the City of Edinburgh Council site in Murrayburn, Edinburgh last week where it is undertaking a programme of regeneration works to 29 blocks of four-storey flats.

Taylor Wimpey East Scotland has acquired land to allow the delivery of 132 new homes at its Lauder Grove development on land off Hillwood Gardens towards the eastern boundary of Ratho Station.