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Image courtesy of Plant Prefab Tech giant Amazon has invested in a home design and prefabrication company with plans to integrate its suite of voice-controlled Alexa devices into affordable easy-to-build houses.

Former Muirfield Contracts chairman John Stodart has been disqualified as a director after he was found to have taken more than £880,000 from the company as it faced financial ruin. More than 280 workers lost their jobs when administrators begun an orderly wind-down of the Dundee building firm in 2

CALA Homes (West) has completed the purchase of the former Jordanhill Campus where the housebuilder is set to create more than 400 homes. Almost £100 million will be invested in the 31-acre site, which is to be known as Jordanhill Park, with the first homes delivered by early 2020.

Glasgow councillor Kenny McLean and Scottish Canals CEO Catherine Topley The widespread regeneration of North Glasgow is set to continue with a 600-strong housing development now underway on the former Diageo distillery site in Port Dundas.

Collective Architecture has submitted planning for the redevelopment of the former Lockerbie Academy site to provide 45 new affordable houses on behalf of Cunninghame Housing Association. Forming a key gateway to the town of Lockerbie, the proposals for the brownfield site consists of a mix of semi-

Ardgowan Distillery has revealed ambitious designs for a new £12 million distillery which is being built on the Ardgowan Estate near Inverkip. The plans showcase the flagship building which has just secured revised planning consent from Inverclyde Council.

Scotland’s NHS is facing a £899 million maintenance backlog bill despite a marginal improvement in property standards, an official report has confirmed. The ‘State of the Estate’ report revealed that the proportion of NHS buildings classified as being in a good condition has improved from 58%

Workers take advantage of a gap in the weather to continue work on the west gable of the Mackintosh Building Work to complete the stabilisation of the west gable of the Mackintosh Building has been delayed due to the recent bad weather.

Angus Council has issued a call for entries as it launched a region-wide search to find the Building of the Decade in its Angus Design Awards 2018. The council wants to hear from building owners and designers about new developments, restoration or conversion work that has been completed between 2008

Building more co-living developments and micro-homes in urban areas top the list of people’s preferred solutions to the housing crisis according to new research by the Federation of Master Builders (FMB), while building on the greenbelt is the least favoured solution. The FMB asked 2,000 home owne

Emtec completes work on Anchorline Aparthotel project Work has been completed on a full refurbishment of an existing city centre building originally constructed in 1907 in the heart of Glasgow city centre.

Rosyth Dockyard has been named one of the top 200 civil engineering projects which has helped shape the world and transformed people’s lives for the better. To mark the 200th anniversary of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), the Institution is celebrating 200 inspirational and world-changin

Councillors have appointed Graham Construction to build the new state-of-the-art Meadowbank Sports Centre in Edinburgh. A report to the City of Edinburgh Council’s finance and resources committee yesterday recommended the contractor as the preferred bidder to demolish the existing building and con

Plans have been formally submitted to “significantly expand” the visitor centre at Lowlands distillery Glenkinchie. Diageo’s plans centre around the renovation and conversion of Glenkinchie’s traditional red brick warehouse buildings into a multi-levelled visitor experience, which will inclu

Ken Munro Construction Scotland has announced the appointment of Ken Munro to its Industry Leadership Group (ILG).