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Housing association Your Housing Group is teaming up with a Chinese-state owned company to build 25,000 pre-fabricated homes over the next five years. The £2.5 billion joint venture, which also includes renewable energy specialist Welink, will see China National Building Material Company (CNBM) bui

Cameron Scott and Andy Lewis Robertson Timber Engineering has recruited two new technical sales managers to grow its business with key clients across the UK.

CCG and MAST Architects have submitted planning proposals for a new 154 home development at Riverford Road, a former industrial site that is bound by the White Cart River in the south side of Glasgow. The development will comprise a mix of 55 townhouses and 99 flats, offering panoramic views across

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3CsCkQzekw&feature=youtu.be New aerial video footage and photographs showing the significant construction progress achieved on central Scotland’s motorway network has released by Transport Scotland following the Scottish Government's budget announcement which w

A new report published by the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) has highlighted the critical role that construction plays in reversing the declining levels of economic and social mobility in the UK. The report, Social Mobility and Construction: Building Routes to Opportunity contains a speciall

Business development manager Euan McDermott (left) with Simon Phillips, regional managing director for Scotland Livingston-based Esh Border Construction has joined an elite group of businesses achieving a silver status accredited by Investors in Young People (IIYP), Scotland’s benchmark for good p

Public submits views on £20m Union Terrace Gardens redevelopment Over 1,400 responses have been recorded on proposals to redevelop Union Terrace Gardens (UTG) in Aberdeen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_3qArx1zaM A gang of railway workers has recorded a truly awful version of Away in a Manger in a bid for musical fame.

Derek Mackay The Scottish Government delivered a budget yesterday which it said will add significant further investment into the core drivers of economic growth such as transport, energy, housing and digital infrastructure.

Murphy House in Edinburgh (RIBA/Keith Hunter) A unique house designed and built by leading architect Richard Murphy has been named the best new house designed by an architect in the UK.

George Fraser, Chief Exec of Tulloch Homes outside a development in Inverness Inverness-headquartered housebuilder Tulloch Homes has benefited from a stable housing market to record continued growth over the past year, its newly-published annual results reveal.

Six contractors have secured a place on Aberdeenshire Council’s £125 million main contractor framework. Robertson Group, along with Kier Construction, McLaughlin & Harvey Construction, Morgan Sindall, Morrison Construction and Northstone (NI) have all been named on the three-year framework.

Scotland’s first national framework to offer demolition services to all local authorities has been launched. Worth £16 million a year, the new Scotland Excel framework will help councils deliver planned demolitions as part of regeneration and improvement work and also respond quickly to dangerous

Small housing developers in Scotland perceive a very high degree of uncertainty in whether permission for small developments will be granted, new research has found. A study by the Federation of Master Builders (FMB) found that its members regularly use phrases like “lottery” and “hit or miss�

View of the development looking south A two-year development programme set to revitalise the St James Church site in Portobello is set to start early next year after phase one of the Edinburgh project was given the go-ahead.