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Glasgow-based building services contractor Arc-Tech (Scotland) Ltd has welcomed a record eight trade apprentices to its business this summer. Arc-Tech first launched its annual apprentice intake in 2017 and has since undertaken a year-on-year commitment to providing young people – as well as a

Argyll and Bute Council is looking for a buyer for the former Bridge of Orchy Primary School and Schoolhouse.

HHA, the Inverness-based not-for-profit property development company, has submitted a planning application to Highland Council to create 15 new homes in Drumnadrochit.

Miller Homes in the East of Scotland has launched a brand new showhome at its Bertha Park development in Perth featuring a host of the town’s favourite small businesses.  The showhome which is now open features products from Perth businesses including Quince & Cook, Heather

Super-stretchy wormlike robots capable of ‘feeling’ their surroundings could find applications in the construction industry, scientists say. A team of engineers from the University of Glasgow have developed robots with forms of motion inspired by the movements of inchworms and earthworms

A block of offices in the centre of Edinburgh could be demolished to make way for 42 new homes, under new plans submitted to the local authority. The Henderson Place Lane site extends over approximately 0.2 hectares and comprises an existing currently unoccupied two-storey office building constructe

Councillors have given the green light for a new £64.3 million health and care centre for the North East of Glasgow.

The refurbishment of the A-listed Burrell Collection building in Glasgow is now nearing completion with the project set to reopen in March 2022, the charity Glasgow Life has announced. The installation of works from the 9,000 strong Burrell Collection is now underway.

The site of a former police station in Glenrothes has been earmarked for a new development comprising 20 homes and a mixed-use commercial building comprising of a nursery, offices and a cafe.

An Angus architecture practice has promoted a long-serving member of its team to director level as it continues to plan for future growth and diversification. Crawford Architecture, based in Montrose, has promoted David Paton to the post of associate director having been with the family firm for mor

Brunton Design has been granted planning approval for a leisure park in the Hilltown area of Dundee.

Drinks giant Diageo has launched its landmark Johnnie Walker Princes Street visitor experience store. Four and a half years in the making, Johnnie Walker Princes Street is the centrepiece of the firm's £185 million investment in Scotch whisky tourism in Scotland.

Construction work on a new multi-level golf entertainment complex in Rutherglen has recommenced following a Covid-enforced interruption.

Fife Council has granted a not-for-profit company planning permission to turn a former hotel in Leslie into homeless accommodation. New Hope Community House Ltd had applied to transform the 15-bedroom Greenside Hotel into a new type of residential care facility that will provide treatment and c

Civils contractors have joined six other industry trade bodies to call for the UK Government’s super deduction allowance (SDA) to be extended to include leasing and short-term hire. The Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA) have issued a joint letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequ