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The pedestrianisation of Union Street Central, the creation of a new city market, and the revitalisation of the beach area, with plans for a pier, new green hub, and a state-of-the-art sports area which could include a new stadium for Aberdeen FC have been approved by Aberdeen City Council. The "onc

Our #COP26SCN feature continues today with episode 2 of the Scottish Housing News Podcast in which former Dundee housing convener and housing justice campaigner Jimmy Black and Scottish Housing News editor Kieran Findlay speak with Link Group’s finance director Nick Pollard about Environmental

Jimmy Black writes about the latest episode of the Scottish Housing News Podcast, with Link Group’s finance director Nick Pollard. I used to sit on the committee of a local authority pension fund, and I made unpopular suggestions. I’d say “Let’s stop investing in tobacco,&rdq

Developer Swan Group has concluded the purchase of land at Corton, South Ayrshire which will deliver in excess of 750 new homes, its biggest development yet.

Two North East building companies are to combine this week when Alpha Projects (Scotland) Ltd are joined by MCK Construction. The merger is the latest in a series of successes for Alpha Projects, which recently announced a multi-million-pound turnover after just three and half years of trading.

Michael Ross has been appointed to be the new chief executive of hub South West. Michael replaces Michael McBrearty who announced earlier this year that he intended to stand down from the role.

Concept designs for the state-of-the-art new University Hospital Monklands have been unveiled by Keppie Design on behalf of NHS Lanarkshire.

Fife-based housebuilder Muir Homes has made another new appointment to strengthen its team, making this the third appointment in the past month. JP Kerr, who joins as commercial manager, brings over 15 years commercial experience in the house building industry. He joins Muir Homes from a simila

A 1.3% increase in UK construction output has been welcomed after a slight dip in previous months, but the overall picture remains bleak for the industry as it faces soaring prices with materials and skills shortages continuing to bite.

BEAR Scotland has added to its senior team with two key appointments to its bridges team. David Bishop and James Petrie will help the trunk road maintenance company deliver the Scottish Trunk Road Network Management Contract for the South East Unit on behalf of Transport Scotland.

UK law firm TLT has appointed Alyson Cowan as an associate in its Glasgow office, building on the firm’s national strength in projects, infrastructure and construction.  Alyson, who joins from Morton Fraser, specialises in non-contentious transactional construction law and brings a wealth

Jamie Hepburn MSP, the Scottish Government's minister for higher education and further education, youth employment and training, has hosted the first practical workshop of a pioneering green skills programme at Construction Scotland Innovation Centre (CSIC). Low Carbon Learning is Scotland’s f

A riverfront project to build 49 new flats in Edinburgh on the banks of the Water of Leith has been completed as a result of full civil and structural services from the engineering consultancy Will Rudd Davidson.

Today's instalment in our COP26SCN feature highlights the pioneering retrofit of a pre-1919 tenement to Passivhaus enerPHit standards being undertaken on behalf of Southside Housing Association in Glasgow. Glasgow has around 73,000 iconic pre-1919 sandstone tenements. Their age, built form, con

The owners of a hotel in Renfrewshire have failed to overturn a decision of Renfrewshire Council to remove land adjacent to the hotel from a list of sites allocated for residential development.