Edinburgh

Persimmon Homes East Scotland has started work on a 20 acre housing development in South Gyle, Edinburgh and is poised to begin a £17.6 million housing development in Larbert. In Edinburgh, Persimmon has started building 204 properties at its £24 million development named Station Mews at the histo

The renovation of University of Edinburgh’s historic McEwan Hall has been won by Interserve with a bid of £19.1 million. The university says that its vision is to restore the Grade ‘A’ listed building to its former glory while taking the opportunity to open the ceremonial hall for the wider u

Royal Bank of Scotland has provided student accommodation developer Ziggurat with a finance facility of almost £30 million to help fund the construction of a major project in the city and support the firm’s wider growth. Ziggurat, which was founded in the capital by Jim Pike and colleague Matthew

New road and rail links to Edinburgh Airport and an extended Borders Railway are among major projects being drawn up by a partnership of local authorities, under ambitious £1 billion city deal plans announced today. The Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region – comprising Edinburgh, Borders

The original design for Usher Hall Original architectural drawings of the Usher Hall in Edinburgh, which have not been seen in public since 1910, will be displayed for the first time in the concert hall between 12 May and 1 September 2015.

Two young patients marked the start of construction at the new Royal Hospital for Sick Children and Department of Clinical Neurosciences in Edinburgh earlier this week. The £150 million building, which is anticipated to open in autumn 2017, will see services from the Royal Hospital for Sick Childre

The University of Edinburgh is to create a new biology complex with world-leading laboratory space for 350 researchers and to establish a new Centre for Tissue Repair, thanks to a £25.7 million investment by the UK government. The two projects are the only Scottish bids to secure funding in a fierc

Graham Rennie The developer behind the £500 million landmark mixed-use Quartermile development has promoted Graham Rennie to the role of project management director.

The University of Edinburgh is seeking a contractor to build its new £28m Data Technology Institute. Designed by Bennetts Associates, the Data Technology Institute is to be the third and final phase of the University’s Potterrow development. The first two phases were constructed and completed in

Blair Melville Homes for Scotland has welcomed the news that the first two of eight major planning appeals called in for determination by the Scottish Government have been approved.

McAleer & Rushe has bagged a hat-trick of hotel wins with a £19m contract to build 146-bedroom Adagio Aparthotel for Artisan Real Estate Investors on its New Waverley regeneration scheme in central Edinburgh.

South Aftrican-based Artisan Real Estate Investors have released new images detailing how a new £6.5m public square in the heart of Edinburgh’s new Caltongate development will look. Work on the capital's £150m New Waverley development enters a new phase this week and Artisan Real Estate believe

The first phase of a £1.25m scheme to link the Innocent Path cycleway to the Union Canal towpath via the Meadows in Edinburgh is scheduled to get under way from today. Lasting approximately 12 weeks, the project will include fully segregated sections of cycleway, as well as new cyclist and pedestri

A local authority that gave away an historic public building in error is to ask for it back.

The developer behind £55 million plans to transform one of Edinburgh’s most distinctive landmarks into a hotel has said the site could become “the beating heart of this part of town”.