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Aberdeen FC stadium work 'due to start in June' Aberdeen Football Club hopes to begin construction of its new stadium and training complex in June, after signing a legal agreement with the city council.

Architects at BIG have released plans for a new zigzag-shaped hotel in Switzerland from which guests will be invited to descend from the roof on skis towards the slopes of Vallée de Joux. Called Audemars Piguet Hotel des Horlogers, the complex will include hotel rooms, two restaurants, a bar, a spa

Network Rail has awarded Bam Nuttall a contract for upgrade works to the Highland mainline – to help reduce journey times for customers. The £10 million deal is part of an overall £57m Scottish Government-funded investment in the line linking Inverness and the Central Belt.

Plans to create an improved transport interchange at Motherwell railway station have been approved by the Glasgow City Region Cabinet. The £3.5 million Glasgow City Region City Deal funding sought will contribute to a wider project that will see North Lanarkshire Council working alongside ScotRail

The Scottish Land Commission has begun work on developing proposals for new Compulsory Sale Order (CSO) power to make use of derelict and urban vacant land. CSOs would be a new legal mechanism available to local authorities to require abandoned buildings or small plots of land, that have been dereli

Claire Tait Clare Tait, an environmental advisor at Kier, discusses her route into construction and the hugely varied role that she carries out as a woman in the sector.

The Pattack hydro project on the Ardverikie Estate near Loch Laggan Aberdeen Standard Investments infrastructure debt team has provided over £43 million of private debt to finance six operational hydro-electric schemes in Scotland.

Kathie Pollard Scottish Land Commission policy officer, Kathie Pollard, looks at Compulsory Sale Orders.

Mechanical and electrical services contractor Arc-Tech (Scotland) Ltd has embarked on a third project within the care sector with Kingsacre Luxury Suites in West Dunbartonshire. Operating alongside the main contractor, Arc-Tech will deliver a full suite of mechanical and electrical services for the

Inverurie development marks latest phase of new affordable homes Aberdeenshire Council’s latest new-build development has been completed with 16 affordable homes in Inverurie now ready for occupation.

A multi-million-pound building project currently under way in Dundee has had to reapply for planning permission because the developers wanted to raise the roof height by a mere 10 inches.

Sarah Beale The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) has announced plans to reduce its workforce by more than 50% over the next three years as part of new reforms to the organisation designed to “modernise its business and relentlessly focus on skills”.

A planning application for homes near Edinburgh Zoo could be called in by ministers after concerns were raised that noise from the building site could disturb the zoo's pandas. Developers Sundial Dundas Corstorphine have applied for permission for the 78-home redevelopment of the nearby Corstorphine

Building materials group Breedon has entered into a conditional agreement to acquire Belfast-based Lagan Group (Holdings) for £455 million. The largest of a series of takeovers for the rapidly expanding firm, the move is set to create a company employing nearly 3,000 workers.