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£10m revamp begins at Charles Rennie Mackintosh's famous Tea Rooms Work has begun on the £10m restoration project to restore one of Glasgow’s Willow Tea Rooms, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

Image courtesy of @tirnaog09 Celtic fans are planning to wear hard hats usually seen on construction sites at Ibrox on Hogmanay - to poke fun at the stadium’s roofing problems, according to The Scotsman.

Adrian Belton Adrian Belton has resigned as chief executive of the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) and will leave at the end of 2016.

Work is to start on a new school two-stream primary school campus and nursery early next month after the project was given the all clear by Aberdeen City Council. The Stoneywood Primary School will be constructed on the grounds of the former Bankhead Academy which was demolished following a fire in

Scott Webb from UKSE (left) and Stockwell Ltd’s Chris Stockwell A Cumbernauld-based staircase manufacturing company is stepping up its operation after receiving a five-figure investment from UK Steel Enterprise (UKSE).

Councillors will be recommended to select Galashiels as the home for the Great Tapestry of Scotland, over a year after the village of Tweedbank was selected to house the facility. In October last year, Scottish Borders Council (SBC) unanimously approved £6 million plans to build a permanent home fo

Murphy House in Edinburgh (RIBA/Keith Hunter) A “rare example” of construction of a contemporary house within the World Heritage Site of the New Town of Edinburgh has been named among a number of properties to be shortlisted for the 2016 RIBA House of the Year award.

Roddy Cormack Roddy Cormack asks whether performance bonds could mean that it is possible to have a risk free construction project.

Cruden Homes was named Home Builder of the Year in 2016 Industry body Homes for Scotland (HFS) is inviting entries from across a variety of categories for its 2017 awards scheme.

Transport minister opens new £41m Edinburgh Gateway station Transport Minister Humza Yousaf officially opened the new £41m Edinburgh Gateway train-tram interchange on Friday.

A supermarket ATM machine in Fife was the target of a bizarre ram raid attempt early this morning by a thief driving a construction site dumper truck. The determined driver repeatedly crashed the stolen vehicle into a Kirkcaldy supermarket before taking off on foot empty handed, according to an eyew

The Glasgow Recycling and Renewable Energy Centre at Polmadie Construction and engineering workers at Interserve were turned away from a Glasgow recycling plant yesterday after the contractor was axed from its work on the site.

Glasgow City Council has today agreed to share ownership of its construction business City Building Glasgow with Wheatley Group in a 50/50 joint venture worth £3.7 billion. The partnership between Scotland's largest council and the country's biggest social landlord will secure thousands of local jo

Output from the Scottish construction sector seems to have remained buoyant during the three months immediately following the UK referendum vote to leave the European Union, new official figures suggest. New figures published today by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) found that output in the

Ground Developments Ltd (GDL) has secured three new contracts to deliver soil modification and earthworks packages that will facilitate new-build housing for three major housebuilders to construct their new homes across Scotland. The firm has pioneered the use of soil modification techniques for use