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Housebuilder Mactaggart & Mickel has hailed its long-serving Ayrshire-based site manager Stuart Gillespie as a “model of consistency” after he scooped a prestigious industry award.  Stuart, the senior site manager at Mactaggart & Mickel’s Greenan Views development in D

Taylor Wimpey and GS Brown are to restart construction at Oudenarde outside Bridge of Earn with an agreement in place to deliver more than 150 new homes. A Scottish Government intervention two and a half years ago which halted construction at Oudenarde was resolved earlier in the year and now Perth

Campaigning trade association SELECT has told a parliamentary consultation that regulating the electrical industry in Scotland would help reduce death and injury, bring significant economic benefits and encourage more women and minorities to take up the tools. The body has used the consultation to p

A Dunbar brewery company has been fined £10,000 after admitting discharging caustic effluent into a sewer which caused damage to a waste water treatment works.

Plans have been approved for a four-unit retail development in Dundee.

Forty years after its release, the famous PAC-MAN video game is being brought back to centre stage by Caterpillar on an epic scale.

Plans to deliver what would be Glasgow city centre's tallest building on the site of Portcullis House at Charing Cross have been unveiled by the Watkin Jones Group.

Councillors have approved plans for a car showroom in Glasgow’s South Side to make way for a 72-bed care home.

Keppie Design has submitted plans on behalf of Aberdeen City Council for a new mortuary which aims to provide dignity for the deceased, provide additional capacity to support civil contingencies and support forensic science.

New bridges, roads, cycling and pedestrian routes are all under construction at the Advanced Manufacturing Innovation District Scotland (AMIDS) in Renfrewshire and expected to be open in May 2021 as Wills Bros Civil Engineering delivers the infrastructure underpinning the development. The Glasgow Ai

Stewart Dalgarno discusses the achievements so far at the mid-way point of the Advanced Industrialised Methods for the Construction of Homes (AIMCH) project. In 2019 the annual housebuilding target was missed by 138,978. The UK Government wants 300,000 new homes built a year — a number not hit

Work has now started on a new £12 million active travel bridge over the Forth & Clyde Canal in northwest Glasgow.

Legislation which requires all homes in Scotland to have interlinked smoke and carbon monoxide alarms will be delayed by 12 months following criticism of the timing of implementation due to the impact of coronavirus.

Elderpark Housing and a long-established Govan-based business have come together to deliver a jobs boost for young workers. Turner Services this week unveiled its three newest apprentices - all of whom live within Glasgow’s south side.

One of London’s largest housing associations is to undertake a comprehensive safety review across a six-block residential development following expert advice that the construction of the buildings may be putting around 1,000 residents at risk.