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ScotRail has released progress images to mark the resumption of work on the £14.5 milllion redevelopment of Motherwell station following the winter break. Until the summer, construction will focus on platforms 2 and 3 where new staff and passenger waiting facilities are being built. Some

Councillors have given the green light for Calvay Housing Association to build 37 new flats on brownfield land at Barlanark.

Stuart MacPherson, senior business services manager at Aberdeen-based chartered accountancy firm Meston Reid & Co, gives advice on VAT changes in the construction industry. A change to VAT collection arrangements is finally heading the way of the UK construction industry.

Turner Property Services Ltd has secured a new contract for the provision of reactive repairs with Maryhill Housing for an initial period of three years. Turner Services have been providing Maryhill Housing with an interim reactive repairs service since July 2020, having taken over from MPS. The new

Regeneration specialist Urban Union has confirmed the latest release of their newest Glasgow development, Pollokshaws Living, has sold out within two days of its launch.

Biologically inspired materials, able to grow and adapt to their environment, could extend the lifespan of electronic devices, medical implants and infrastructure, and unlock an array of environmental benefits, according to a report by the Royal Society.

Property partnership Alex Brewster and Sons has been fined £4,000 after an employee fell through a roof light. Edinburgh Sheriff Court heard how on 19 April 2016, two employees were removing roofing panels from a derelict shed in Midlothian. One of the workers stepped on to a roof light, which

A new £16.5 million Passivhaus-standard primary school is to be built on the grounds of North Muirton Primary School in Perth, under newly filed plans submitted to the local authority. Designed by Architype, the two-storey North Perth Primary School at Uist Place will replace ageing schoo

A new report aimed at helping public bodies make decisions on where public funding in construction gives the highest economic returns to help support a green recovery has been published today by the Construction Industry Coronavirus Forum (CICV Forum).

The Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) has said it broadly welcomes the direction of travel the Scottish Government has taken with its new National Planning Framework (NPF4) but it must be "deliverable, connected and influential".

Work has started on the first new homes to be built at the development in East Lothian with more good news to come later this year, according to developer Hargreaves Land. Blindwells, which is located less than 10 miles east of Edinburgh, has outline planning permission for 1,600 homes. Hargrea

hub South West Scotland and Cruden Building are starting work today on a new affordable housing development in Larkhall on behalf of South Lanarkshire Council to support the local housing strategy.

A marine energy company has unveiled a ground-breaking project to produce Scotch whisky distilled by tidal power in the Sound of Islay.

Work will soon begin to lay foundations for overhead powerlines along the East Kilbride-Glasgow Central railway as part of a multi-million-pound investment in the route.

Growing awareness of environmental issues will encourage builders and developers to make new homes ever greener in the coming years and decades. Queensberry Properties’ sales and marketing director, Hazel Davies, identifies four main areas by which tomorrow’s homes will reduce their envi