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A design contract notice worth up to £50 million for the A96 Dualling programme has been published today. Covering around 29 miles of the western section of the A96 east of Auldearn to east of Fochabers, the contract follows the award earlier this year of a major design contract worth £30m for the

Ted Ayres Bellway has revealed plan to build up to 10 per cent more homes this year after it sold a record 7,752 properties in the 12 months to end-July, helping to raise pre tax profits by 44 per cent.

Proposals have been unveiled to clean up a dirty unused canal in Berlin’s historical centre to create a place the public can literally dive into. Called the Flussbad (“river pool”), the goal of the project is the permanent transformation of a 1.5km stretch of river that has gone unused for mor

MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant: Mr Wyllie Woodburn

(from left) Colin Forfar, Schneider Electric; Archie Jay; Hamish Miller, CABLEtalk (pic by Mike Wilkinson) It was another year of sparkling success for the big winner at the prestigious awards ceremony hosted by SELECT, the campaigning trade body for the electrotechnical industry in Scotland.

Lottery rejects £1.25m funding bid to build Gaelic heritage centre A bid to secure £1.25m from the lottery to build a Gaelic heritage centre on South Uist has been rejected.

A Boeing 737 aeroplane fuselage is to be transformed into a dining area at an entertainment centre in Glasgow. The go-karting and leisure centre named The Experience, based in Hillington, is located at a former Rolls Royce Aero factory and the social enterprise is looking to reconnect with that hist

The £1 billion transformation of Dundee Waterfront, the third largest regeneration project in the UK, has been shortlisted for a prestigious award at MIPIM UK. The Dundee project, spanning 240 hectares of land stretching 8km along the River Tay, is the figurehead for the ongoing regeneration of Dun

A new implementation plan has been launched that sets out the strategy for public sector projects within Scotland to adopt BIM Level 2 by April 2017. Presented by the Scottish BIM delivery group, which was set up by the Scottish Futures Trust and the Scottish Government, the plan’s brief is to sup

(from left) Allan Callaghan of Cruden, John Swinney and Rufus Logan of BRE An innovative new app has been launched which promises to help social landlords and housebuilders in providing more energy efficient homes, reducing fuel poverty and carbon emissions and improving the health of tenants.

Malcolm Fraser Architect Malcolm Fraser reflects on the experience of having to close his practice despite producing buildings feted by colleagues and politicians.

Balfour Beatty has arrived on site to begin work on a new passenger concourse at Dundee Railway Station. The £28 million six-storey development will include ticketing facilities, as well as a café/restaurant and retail space, while a new 120 bedroom Sleeperz hotel will be accommodated on three flo

MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant: Snoozebox Holdings PLC

(from left) Barry Bryce, operations manager at McLaughlin & Harvey, Cllr Bob Constable, cabinet member for education and Stevie Rennie, project manager at McLaughlin & Harvey on site at Bilston Primary McLaughlin & Harvey has been appointed main contractor of two major education construc

A progress report on repairs to Dumfries and Galloway Council’s flagship leisure centre has been put on hold to allow mediation talks between the local authority and its contractors. Remedial works at DG One in Dumfries were due to begin in the autumn but workers have yet to appear on the site.