South Lanarkshire

A glazing and flooring firm in South Lanarkshire has closed with the loss of 40 jobs. STV reports that Westcrowns Contracting Services entered administration on October 20 amid "severe cash flow difficulties" and the business ceased to trade with immediate effect.

New plans have been revealed to transform the Hamilton campus of the University of the West of Scotland (UWS) into an ‘urban village’ complete with 365 homes and a five-storey hotel.

A topping out ceremony has taken place for the first building at Glasgow’s new urban business location, Magenta @ Clyde Gateway. The £9 million Red Tree Magenta building is currently under construction by contractors Robertson, and is due for completion in summer 2018. Investment funding is being

Court of Session A landowner who raised a legal action against the Scottish Ministers over what he claimed was a “natural right of drainage” has been granted a declaration that the M74 motorway interferes with that right.

Hundreds of delegates were among the first to see Construction Scotland Innovation Centre’s pioneering new £2 million Innovation Factory as it launched today with a major industry event. Located at Hamilton International Technology Park in South Lanarkshire and supported by Scottish Funding Counc

South Lanarkshire Council has received further reassurance about the four schools in the region where aluminium composite cladding was used in their construction. It was revealed last month that as many as 44 schools across Scotland contain the type of aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding rep

A 45-year-old man has died while working at a building site in High Blantyre, South Lanarkshire. Police and ambulance services were called to the Avant Homes site on Hamilton Road yesterday morning following a report that a man had been seriously injured.

German company TÜV SÜD AG has unveiled plans to establish a new £16 million Centre of Excellence (CoE) for subsea development in East Kilbride. The investment at its TÜV SÜD Limited (NEL) site in the Scottish Enterprise Technology Park will help cement Scotland's position as a global leader in

The Peel Park site has lain vacant for a number of years An 80-bedroom hotel and restaurant proposal in East Kilbride has been given the go-ahead.

Northern Ireland construction firm FP McCann is in advanced negotiations with Laing O’Rourke to buy its precast concrete manufacturing plant in Uddingston. It is understood that around 50 staff and assets at the site will be transferred across to FP McCann, and no jobs will be lost.

The new Raith Underpass at Junction 5 of the M74 has been officially opened following a complex and challenging three-year construction programme. Set to dramatically improve the heavily congested junction near Hamilton in South Lanarkshire, the new A725 underpass, which runs below the M74 motorway,

David Knight, managing director of Avant Homes Scotland, at the Calderbrook development in Glasgow Scottish housebuilder Avant Homes has revealed plans for 385 new homes across three new developments in the Central Belt, with a combined value of £94 million.

The Low Carbon Teaching Building at South Lanarkshire College Austin-Smith:Lord has been shortlisted for an international BREEAM Award for its ground-breaking sustainable design of South Lanarkshire College’s Low Carbon Teaching Building.

The Construction Scotland Innovation Centre (CSIC) is gearing up for a productive 2017 as it prepares to open the doors to its new innovation and collaboration facility to construction companies across Scotland. The Scottish construction sector employs 170,000 people - 10 per cent of all Scottish jo

Taylor Wimpey West Scotland has secured detailed planning consent from South Lanarkshire Council for 486 new homes in East Kilbride. The 61 acre site on land off Shields Road at Benthall Farm is allocated for housing in the South Lanarkshire Local Development Plan, and will allow Taylor Wimpey West