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A local property developer has announced the official launch of a new 97 home development in Dundee. D J Laing Homes has returned to the area, recently crowned Scotland’s best place to live, to start work on its latest development and follow the success of the 200 homes it built previously in

A decision on plans by the Trump Organisation to build hundreds of new homes in Aberdeenshire has once again been delayed by the local authority. Aberdeenshire Council said a planning application for 550 homes at the Menie Estate, near Balmedie, will now be considered later this year following the r

Clark Contracts has released a video of its team installing two gantry's on top of the towers at 55 Douglas Street to facilitate a spider crane which will assist with the delivery of steel work required for the extension to the building.

Glencoe’s new-look visitor centre this week welcomed its first guests after a major refurbishment to better tell the story of this world-renowned mountain landscape and National Nature Reserve, which is visited by hundreds of thousands of people every year.  Work took place over the winte

The National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) and the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) have jointly acquired the most ambitious and splendid surviving portrait of a member of the Adam family, the great eighteenth-century Scottish architectural dynasty. The portrait of James Adam (1732-94) by the Ital

MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant: Angus Council, Raphael Dunbar, Angus House, Orchardbank, Forfar

The masterplan for a new £30 million tourism investment at the foot of Loch Lomond has been submitted to Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park. The development, named Lomond Banks, will transform an area of Balloch currently marked for tourism development in the local plan.

Almost half of the Scottish Government’s major infrastructure projects have been subject to delays, with prisons suffering the biggest hold-ups. Schools and health centres are also among the 25 out of 55 projects which have been pushed back or were delivered behind schedule.

Development company S Harrison has submitted a planning application to build a new student accommodation scheme on a vacant site to the West of Edinburgh city centre. The ICA-designed development on Gorgie Road will have 269 bedrooms in two buildings with a wide range of amenities and facilities. Th

Scotland’s international centre of manufacturing expertise is a step closer to being realised following the appointment of the design team. The National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS), hosted by the University of Strathclyde, aims to make Scotland a global leader in advanced manufactu

Aberdeenshire construction group CHAP (Holdings) Limited has hailed a 27% increase in turnover as an important step towards fulfilling its long-term strategy. The Westhill-based firm recorded turnover of £51.5 million in its accounts ending 30th September 2018, up from £40.5m the previou

Given a number of Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) accusations against key suppliers to the construction sector, Jamie Dunne from law firm Brodies has looked into the issue in more detail. The Competition and Markets Authority has recently accused six key suppliers to the construction sector

Stornoway Port Authority has awarded a major contract to design one of the biggest projects ever undertaken in the Hebrides. Marine consulting civil engineers Wallace Stone has been chosen to take forward plans for Phase 1 of a deep-water port, which is part of the Port Authority’s 20-year mas

Cabinet Secretary for culture, tourism and external affairs Fiona Hyslop has announced the appointment of four new members of the board of Architecture and Design Scotland (A&DS). Angela Bonney, Daisy Narayanan, Bruce Ross and Alistair Scott will join the board following a recruitment proce

The production team of the Architecture Fringe will take over The Lighthouse in central Glasgow for the whole of June as part of its 2019 programme. Exploring the In Real Life provocation, this year's core programme will see the building packed with new commissioned work, key events a