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A bid to make nearly 800 affordable homes available to rent over the next five years is being launched by Falkirk Council this month. Around £35 million of funding is being sought from Scottish Government in a consortium bid led by the local authority on behalf of itself and other social landlords

Architecture practice HLM has completed the refurbishment of the University of Glasgow’s pilot teaching rooms in time for the 2016/17 academic year. The refurbishment follows the establishment last year of the University’s Inspiring Spaces Group to investigate how existing teaching spaces in var

The property and construction industries have been perceived to be among the least diverse in Scotland, a new poll on sexist attitudes and workplace diversity has found. The YouGov survey, commissioned by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), revealed that 29 per cent of girls said th

Site acquired for Glasgow Jaguar and Volvo dealership Property and planning consultancy Rapleys has acquired a site for a new flagship Jaguar and Volvo dealership in Glasgow.

The logo to be used when Glasgow hosts a selection of games for the Euro 2020 football tournament was launched today featuring the city’s famous ‘Squinty Bridge’. Landmark bridges across Europe are being used as a theme for each of the tournament’s host cities with the Clyde Arc forming the

Infrastructure group Robertson has completed work on a major element of the £30 million ‘Heart of the Campus’ project at Glasgow Caledonian University. Robertson Central carried out £20m of construction works which has created a new main entrance which will serve as a gateway to the University

James Dick An architect whose practice specialises in designing university buildings has voiced fears the higher education sector may have to curb their ambitions because of a funding crunch arising from the UK’s decision leave the European Union.

Dundee City Council’s construction services and its staff could be transferred to Tayside Contracts for future delivery of work, under plans to go before councillors next week. Tayside Contracts is the commercial trading arm of the councils of Angus, Dundee City and Perth & Kinross and employs

A construction firm boss is among three Kent men to have been jailed for a total of 19 years after stealing £6.9 million in UK taxes. For two and a half years, co-conspirators Aquil Ahmed, 60, an accountant; Victor Shearer, 43, a construction services company director; and Christopher Azzopardi, 37

Gavin Paton Burness Paull partner, Gavin Paton, on why the imminent introduction of Project Bank Accounts could provide more certainty and stability.

A £320 million fund has been launched to help boost the development of the self-sustaining heat network sector throughout the UK. The funding is being provided by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), a new department created by Prime Minister Theresa May earlier this

Increasingly strict building ventilation standards are making the task of achieving a good balance between healthy indoor air quality (IAQ) and lower HVAC power and energy consumption more challenging for building engineers all over the world. The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) is

Transport infrastructure and a new hospital have been named by members of Highland Council’s Lochaber Committee among a set of strategic priorities to improve the health and wellbeing of local people. The priorities are listed under a number of headings that also include marine infrastructure and

Multi-million pound landscaping investment at new Aberdeen community Millions of pounds are being invested in making the new community at Countesswells one of the most green and attractive places to live in Aberdeen.

Plans have been approved for a pirate ship in the grounds of the house which helped to inspire JM Barrie to write Peter Pan. Designed by LDN Architects, the play equipment is part of a wider scheme to convert Moat Brae in Dumfries into a national centre for children's literature.