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Morrison Construction project nominated for prestigious planning award The £48.5m Wick Community Campus built by Morrison Construction has been announced as a finalist at the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) Awards for Planning Excellence 2018.

Calls to emergency services in San Francisco have been made on at least three occasions because employees at Apple keep walking into glass windows and doors at the company’s $5 billion 'spaceship' campus. Apple Park, Apple's new four-storey corporate campus designed by Norman Foster, has 3,000 pan

Glasgow city centre is to have a £40 million co-living building that will provide a gateway to the Merchant City and a focal point for regeneration of the East End, under plans submitted by developers. Merchant Point, at the corner of the High Street and George Street, will include shops, offices a

A new eight-year capital investment programme which sets out total investment of almost £237 million until 2025/26 was agreed by South Ayrshire Council yesterday. Key features of the programme include more than £43 million strategic investment in ICT and £3m more in 2018/19 for road reconstructio

Taylor Wimpey has seen its profits take a £105 million hit due to the cost of addressing the leasehold scandal.

Renovation and reconfiguration works at the Comunn Eachdraidh Nis museum on the Isle of Lewis are due to start in mid-March. Funding has been sourced from a wide range of organisations to enable the £1 million project to proceed. Following a public procurement process towards the end of 2017, the s

A student trying out Morrison Construction’s virtual reality induction at a recent career event Morrison Construction has been recognised for its development of virtual reality site inductions after being named a finalist for the Health and Safety Initiative of the Year at the Water Industry Award

With new rules recently introduced on radon exposure, global testing, inspection and certification firm Bureau Veritas is advising the UK construction industry to review monitoring of the carcinogenic radioactive gas following a new lower limit of radon permissible in the workplace. From February 20

Carnegie Library and Galleries, Dunfermline Window, door and curtain walling manufacturer and installer CMS Window Systems has played a key role in the creation of the new Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries (DCL&G), which was crowned Scotland’s best building in the 2017 RIAS Awards.

Savills announces Scottish promotions Real estate advisor Savills has announced promotions across its Scottish business, which take effect from yesterday.

Julie Lochrie Headland Archaeology finds specialist and Cabinet Secretary Keith Brown Artefacts and structures found during archaeological excavations on the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route/Balmedie to Tipperty (AWPR/B-T) project are shedding light on land use and settlement in the north east over

A planning application has been submitted to East Lothian Council to convert the Quay Complex in Musselburgh into a 40-bedroom luxury care home. Owned by entrepreneur Charan Gill, the Quay is located five miles from the centre of Edinburgh on the A1 at the picturesque harbour of Fisherrow, overlooki

Costain’s ongoing transformation into a “smart infrastructure solutions company” is continuing to pay dividends after the firm reported another strong performance with an 18% increase in underlying operating profit to £49 million. Revenue, including share of joint ventures and associates, inc

Young people across South Ayrshire are set to benefit as work starts on the new Queen Margaret Academy in Ayr. The new state-of-the-art school which will be completed in October 2019 will not only help transform learning but is set to become a hub for the local community.

A Climate Change Plan which sets out in detail how Ministers intend to meet the target of reducing emissions by 66% by 2032, has been published by the Scottish Government. Scotland is already on track to meet the 2020 target to reduce emissions by 42% and the new Climate Change Plan sets out the Sco