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New Central Access Core at the Burrell Collection. Image courtesy of John McAslan + Partners Glasgow City Council’s contracts and property committee has confirmed Kier Construction Scotland as the preferred bidder to deliver the Main Building Contract to take forward the Burrell Collection’s amb

BAM Construction has been awarded a £10m contract to fit-out the new terminal extension at Edinburgh Airport. Once complete the new three storey terminal building will provide expanded domestic and international arrival facilities including baggage reclaim, border control, additional food/beverage

The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) is calling on all former Carillion apprentices to get in contact so it can help them continue their training – and for employers to step forward to take them on. The UK’s second-biggest builder, which employs 20,000 people in the UK and thousands i

The Federation of Master Builders (FMB) has called on banks to show leniency to the thousands of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Carillion’s supply chain. Finance and banking trade body UK Finance said this week that major banks are working closely with the UK government to limit the

Plans have been submitted for a new ‘retirement village’ containing 252 homes and an 80-bed care home in Newton Mearns. Situated off Netherplace Road, Newton Mearns Retirement Village has been conceived by Jewitt & Wilkie Architects on behalf of Newton Mearns Projects to cater exclusively fo

Plans to build 186 affordable homes on the former site of a bus depot in Govanhill have been formally submitted to Glasgow City Council. Designed by Mast Architects on behalf of Link Group and Park Lane Larkfield SPV, the project will see 152 flats and 34 houses developed on the former Larkfield bus

Architect Kengo Kuma during a visit to the V&A Museum last year Dundee’s £80.1 million V&A Museum of Design will open its doors to the public for the first time on September 15, it was revealed today.

A housing charity which was set up two years ago to provide much needed mid market rental properties across Scotland has completed its biggest ever deal for a development in Edinburgh. LAR Housing Trust has purchased Westwood House on the city’s Gorgie Road for an undisclosed sum.

A former industrial site in Dundee’s Coldside area is set for a new lease of life after plan for new industrial units were given the green light. Dundee City Council planners have given permission to Dundee Industrial Association (DIA) to build 34 general industrial units at 46–48 Loons Road.

Representatives from ENGIE and the Wheatley Group with volunteers at Fun Stars, children and staff at Ibrox Primary School and the manager of The Coming Home Veterans Group More than £18,000 has been invested into nine community enterprises as part of two major regeneration projects in Glasgow.

Mark Rafferty, managing director at Bernard Hunter Mobile Cranes Ltd (third from left) collects the Transport News award for Scotland’s Top Training Operator 2018 from Vito Ronzano, managing director of category sponsor Wilcox. Also present are event compares and TV personalities, Des Clarke and M

Housebuilder Redrow has teamed up with Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) and Coleg Cambria, one of the UK’s largest colleges, to establish the UK’s first dedicated Housebuilding Degree. LJMU have also validated the qualification.

Keith Brown on a visit to the AWPR site last year Cabinet secretary for the economy, jobs and fair work, Keith Brown, has moved to reassure MSPs that disruption and job losses caused by Carillion’s collapse would be minimised in Scotland, though the minister stopped short of giving an opening date

Skanska has revealed it is to cut around 3,000 jobs across its global operations as part of restructuring plans to improve profitability. The Swedish group said this morning that the comprehensive restructuring, which follows a strategic review initiated in autumn 2017, will involve quitting the US

Shares in the construction and services firm Interserve fell this morning amid reports that its financial health is under special scrutiny from the UK Cabinet Office. Stock was down as much as 15% in early trading on the London Stock Exchange after the Financial Times said a small team had been put