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Kier Construction Scotland has been named as one of four principal supply chain partners on the new £160 million Aberdeenshire Council Social Housing Improvement Framework, which will see Kier deliver up to £40m worth of construction, renovation and maintenance improvements to thousands of counci

The first step in a £40 million partnership programme to create 150 new extra care housing properties in the Borders has been taken.

Plans have been lodged by Scottish Borders Council to demolish a primary to make way for a new facility merging three schools in Jedburgh. Working alongside Borders Council, Hub South East, BAM and TGP, the team are set to deliver a 434 -space primary, 550 pupil secondary and a nursery to repla

EQ Accountants in partnership with Zero Waste Scotland are hosting a business briefing to set out how firms can benefit from understanding the business case for resource efficiency.

John and Katie Langley receiving the award for Best SIPs home at the Build It 2017 Awards JML Contracts Ltd, the family-run Perthshire business, is the first Scottish company to receive a national industry award in its category for a custom build house project it undertook in Angus.

Keith Brown Next steps for city region deals outlined

Work at a Dublin construction site was temporarily brought to a halt this week after a hitchhiking scorpion scuttled out of a batch of building supplies. The alarm was raised when the unexpected visitor crawled out of a delivery of kitchen sinks – believed to have arrived at the Baggot Street site

Miller Plant Limited has been fined £15,000 over a health and safety breach which resulted in three contract workers being exposed to asbestos fibres. The Inverurie-based plant contracting and hire service provider was handed the fine at Aberdeen Sheriff Court after admitting engaging an unlicensed

Bob Holt Lakehouse has won a £44 million contract to carry out housing energy efficiency upgrades for Aberdeenshire Council.

Graham Paterson, executive director of City Building Construction firm City Building has won a £3.7 million contract with social landlord ng homes as part of a clutch of new business wins valued at over £5m.

Balfour Beatty has reached an agreement to sell its US professional services business Heery International to a subsidiary of CBRE Group. The transaction, which is subject to certain contractual consents, is expected to complete before year end for a total cash consideration of $57 million (c.£42m),

The Robert the Bruce monument at Bannockburn Councillors have unanimously refused planning permission in principle for a “major development” at a part of the Bannockburn battle site but have backed plans to bring one of Killearn’s oldest and most prominent buildings back into use as affordable

A plasterer from Edinburgh who faced up to a year in jail in the United Arab Emirates for allegedly possessing counterfeit money is due to fly home after having his passport returned. William Barclay was stopped at Dubai International Airport in September after an incident in 2016 when he presenting

Ken McEwan Ken McEwan says we all face having to pick-up the tab for what he refers to as the Scottish Government’s "botched" Land and Buildings Transaction Tax as he appeals for an urgent reform to the property tax.