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Two award-winning architects have opened a new practice in Scotland specialising in conservation, adaptive re-use of historic buildings and new architecture within sensitive settings, for a diverse range of uses.

Plans for 57 new homes in Edzell have been approved by Angus Council despite concerns about potential traffic issues in the area. Developer Guild Homes is expected to start work on the homes within a month after Angus Council’s development standards committee granted permission for the sc

New council housing in St Ninians, delivered by local builder Ogilvie Homes, has been handed over to tenants. The 10 homes at the King's Meadow development at Monteith Avenue were built as part of Stirling Council’s Strategic Housing Investment Plan (SHIP), which aims to provide new high-quali

Tarmac is partnering with Solutions for the Planet (S4TP) for a seventh successive year to help promote sustainability, science, technology, engineering, and maths (STEM) careers in schools.

A series of proposed alterations to Radisson Blu hotel in Glasgow will cause “irrevocably damages", according to the original architect.

The construction of the University of Glasgow’s new James McCune Smith Learning Hub has generated more than £135 million in social value, according to a new report by lead contractor Multiplex. Giving undergraduate and postgraduate students access to state-of-the-art learning spaces

Orkney Islands Council (OIC) has awarded Casey Construction the £3.6 million contract to extend and refurbish St Andrews Primary School. Councillors previously agreed to include the project within the current capital programme.

Construction work is under way on the multi-million pound Allander Leisure and Day Care Centre. East Dunbartonshire Council is redeveloping the current Bearsden site as part of a £42.5 million investment - including a new, state-of-the-art sports and leisure complex, as well as a support centr

International, independent real estate consultancy Hollis has expanded its environmental consultancy team with the appointment of Pamela Hall as an associate in Edinburgh.   Hall is responsible for advising clients on the environmental as well as health and safety risks and opportunities a

Scotland's built environment professional bodies have issued a joint statement calling on new ways of working that embed resilience into how our places function and develop over time.

Integrated environmental, engineering and technical services business RSK Group Ltd has added three more UK businesses to the group. CR Civil Engineering Ltd, the Enviresearch group and E.D.P. Health, Safety and Environment Consultants Ltd (EDP) become RSK’s 12th, 13th, and 14th acqu

The innovation consortium set up to transform the housebuilding sector has today published its second-year progress report showing encouraging results and key learnings for the sector.

Persimmon and Perth & Kinross Council have been given two weeks to respond to an official complaint to a Scottish Government Reporter regarding sewage concerns one of the housebuilder's planned developments in Kinross. Earlier this year, reporter David Buylla said he is minded to

Large housing developments should contain ‘mobility hubs’ for transport as a condition of planning consent to improve the environment and reduce congestion, ministers have been told.

Plans have been submitted by JM Architects for a block of 16 flats on brownfield land at Dalmeny near South Queensferry.