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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.

The winner of the Scottish Construction Now subscription competition has been revealed.

Argyll and Bute Council has recommended that the Scottish Government takes forward the first of 11 options to address landslide issues at the A83 Rest and Be Thankful following a consultation by Transport Scotland.

Glasgow City Council was yesterday given an update on the progress of the Sighthill Transformational Regeneration Area (TRA) which noted the achievement of key milestones and looked forward to future projects within the TRA.

A new state of the art Water Treatment Works (WTW) that was delivered by sea to a Harris beach has entered service. The news marks the completion of a £4.5 million investment by Scottish Water to provide a single, improved water supply for the island’s westernmost communities of Gobhaig,

Scientists at the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) have successfully pinpointed fragments of coronavirus’ ribonucleic acid (RNA) in local waste water samples across the country.

Glasgow City Council has accepted a further £2.705 million from the Scottish Government's Regeneration Capital Grant Fund (RCGF) for five community-focused regeneration projects in the city. The RCGF is a Scottish Government budget, developed in partnership with COSLA and local autho

Plans are being drawn up for the creation of 180 new homes and luxury log cabins at Prestonhill quarry in Inverkeithing. The plans are being led by developers DDR (UK) Ltd. There are few details about the plans, other than it is likely to comprise of 135 newbuild homes and 45 housing association pro

Trade association SELECT has cautiously welcomed a proposed one-year delay to new rules on domestic smoke alarms – but says Holyrood needs to roll out a major awareness campaign on the rules in the meantime. The campaigning body for the electrotechnical sector says it understands why

Chartered surveyors DM Hall said the post-lockdown property boom has been “like a dam burst ” as pent-up demand has seen a surge of interest from prospective buyers. Alan Gordon, senior partner, said the property market has proved to be extremely resilient and has “behaved very wel