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Morgan Sindall Construction has started work on a brace of new integrated primary and early years schools for the City of Edinburgh Council with a combined value of £26 million. The local authority tendered the projects through the highest value lot (Lot 8) of its £223m Contractor Works

A school in the heart Greenock town centre has reopened following a £6 million transformation.

An extensive redevelopment project has begun at a prominent Mull hotel.

Scottish Government chief planner John McNairney has been elected to Fellowship of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI). Chartered Fellow is the highest professional membership grade offered by the RTPI and is only awarded to Chartered members who have made a major personal contributio

Persimmon is to start work on 86 new homes on the grounds of the former Cleland Hospital in Wishaw in the coming weeks after it completed the purchase of the site from NHS Lanarkshire.

Clowes Developments (Scotland) has submitted plans to build 73 new homes next to the former BMK carpet factory in Kilmarnock. The homes at the site on Barbadoes Road will comprise of three and four-bedroom properties.

Construction of Irvine harbourside’s multi-million-pound council housing development is set to get underway today.

Glasgow City Council has rejected plans submitted by Wheatley Group to demolish 12 lock-up garages and build seven mews-style homes in the city's West End. The planning application concerned the rear of 7 Lowther Terrace at Redlands Lane, just off Great Western Road.

The Construction Industry Coronavirus Forum (CICV Forum) has released the latest in its series of COVID-19 animations – this time offering essential advice on how workers should travel to and from work safely.

Glasgow’s 122 Waterloo Street, home to international banking giant Morgan Stanley, has been named Scotland’s top corporate workplace in the British Council for Offices’ (BCO) 2020 awards. The highly sustainable, grade A office building, developed by HFD Property Group, opened in 20

Whilst demand for realistically priced new build homes that will be ‘move-in ready’ by the end of 2020 are sharing in the remarkable post-lockdown recovery being felt in Scotland’s housing market, those with longer completion times may require financial incentives to secure sales t

A construction worker who welcomed a new baby during the coronavirus pandemic said he had to show his bank card to disbelieving doctors who thought the surname he had given his son was a joke. New dad Jimmy Korona said delivery drivers, bar staff and even doctors have failed to take h

A key milestone in Aberdeen’s Baird Family Hospital and ANCHOR Centre project has been achieved with the signing of the £161 million construction contract by NHS Grampian and GRAHAM, with the contractor preparing to go on-site next month.  The project is the largest to be procu

Collective Architecture has unveiled designs for a proposed new build community centre in Glasgow as a planning application is submitted by Possilpark People’s Trust.

US private equity group Lone Star has launched a £630 million takeover bid for McCarthy & Stone with the retirement homes specialist's board recommending that shareholders accept the offer.