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Galliford Try has joined other major construction groups in cancelling its interim dividend as it prepares to see out the fallout caused by COVID-19.

The City of Edinburgh Council has written to contractors delivering all non-essential, council-led construction across the capital to follow national guidance issued by the Scottish Government.

Works have been completed on a full-scale renovation and fit-out project transforming the former Ducati building on Glasgow’s Great Western Road into a new hairdressing salon.

Oberlanders Architects has promoted Holly Small to the role of practice manager and Mark Rego to the role of BIM manager/laboratory planning specialist. The practice said the promotions reflect its “ongoing commitment to provide opportunity for individual growth and expansi

Scotland’s first purpose-built justice centre in Inverness opens today.

The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) is conducting a survey to identify firms across the sector capable of providing vital service and maintenance for the NHS at short notice.

Gilson Gray has accelerated its recent expansion into Dundee by merging with local property firm, Wallace and Co Property Management. The addition of Wallace and Co Property Management will see the transfer of local property experts Elaine Wallace, Pauline Traill and Derek Tyson to the Gilson Gray P

Looking to a post-pandemic work environment, Bruce Kennedy talks about designing workplaces that inspire creativity, celebrate our collective humanity and allow us to thrive. As a designer of workplaces, I’m fascinated by the adaptability of millions of people around the world as they embrace

Shepherd Chartered Surveyors has called for rating appeals to be lodged and ideally to be backdated to March 4 as a result of a material change of circumstances arising from the coronavirus pandemic. The firm is currently working flat out lodging new appeals against rating assessments on the basis t

Unlisted tenement buildings deemed too expensive to maintain could soon be demolished to make way for temporary soft landscaping under plans submitted by the University of Dundee. The four-storey block at 16-18 Airlie Place, which sits within the city campus conservation area, was previously used as

Plans have been submitted to build a five-storey residential development on the site of a commercial unit just off Morningside Road in Edinburgh.

Bancon Homes has lodged plans to deliver more than 200 new homes at Maidencraig South in the west of Aberdeen.

The Scottish Government has issued updated guidance on gas, fire and electrical safety checks which states that private landlords and letting agents should postpone routine certification requirements during the current coronavirus pandemic.

Housebuilder Mactaggart & Mickel has handed £500 to ‘The Sikh Food Bank’, a new Sikhs in Scotland project created to help people left most vulnerable by the coronavirus pandemic. The Glasgow-based firm rallied behind project as media reports suggested supermarket panic-buyers h

A group of armed vigilantes in the US are said to have cut down a tree to use as a roadblock to try to quarantine three construction workers from another state.