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Planning permission has been granted to build a further 194 affordable and low cost homes at Craigmillar Town Centre, a major regeneration project in South East Edinburgh. The approval for the new homes follows on from other new housing developments in the area being built by construction firm CCG (

Ambitious investment plans totalling £50.9 million will deliver significant housing improvements to council homes across North Lanarkshire, benefitting tenants and helping make significant strides towards reducing the local authority’s carbon footprint. Replacing all kitchens and bathrooms by 202

(from left) Bruce High, chief executive of St Andrew’s Hospice; Mr Boyd Tunnock MBE CBE; Lady Susan Haughey; Elaine Smith MSP; Mr Gilbert Cox CVO MBE; Alex Neil MSP (Photo credit: Robert Perry) CCG officially handed over the keys to the newly refurbished St Andrew’s Hospice to the charity’s ch

McTaggart Construction has handed over a cheque for £3,500 to extend the WiFi at Wyndford Hub in Maryhill and purchase more tablet computers. A Click & Connect free computer learning centre at the Hub – funded by Wheatley Group and Glasgow Kelvin College – helps 30-40 people per day access

(from left) Joy Roy, St Ambrose depute headteacher; Ryan Lindsay; Liam Gardner; Reece Rooney and Robert Stewart, Robertson site manager Pupils from Coatbridge have visited the site of their old school to take part in a construction challenge led by infrastructure firm Robertson Group.

(from left) Front: Robert Higgins, DGHP chairman and Marion Gracie, operations director with SERS. Back: April Devlin, quantity surveyor with DGHP; Hugh Carr, DGHP’s director of finance; Jane Urquhart, DGHP’s senior investment manager; Andrew Thompson, interim director of investment and regenera

US entrepreneur Elon Musk is to turn his hand to selling giant interlocking bricks made from rock - Lego style. Produced by his recently formed tunnelling business, the Boring Company, Musk will sell “kits” of bricks, starting with one that makes it easy to build things from “ancient Egypt,”

MPs investigating the collapse of Carillion have accused the company’s Board of being “focused on their own pay packets” at the expense of its perilous financial situation as it emerged that the firm had set out “highly restricted circumstances” in which bonuses could be clawed back from d

Special Branch officers from the Metropolitan Police passed information to a controversial network that blacklisted construction workers, Scotland Yard has confirmed. The admission follows a campaign by blacklisted workers to prove they were spied on by the police.

Jamie Boot Henry Boot Construction has reported a 40% rise in profits in its results for the year ended 31 December 2017.

Taylor Wimpey East Scotland has secured a Resolution to Grant detailed planning permission from the City of Edinburgh Council for 341 new homes at South Scotstoun, South Queensferry. Situated on land off Kirkliston Road to the south of South Queensferry, the 35.35 acre site is identified for housing

Clark Contracts is on site completing the construction of a new Lidl supermarket on Easter Road in Leith, the contractor’s seventh project for the retailer. The new steel-framed store will be the first Lidl ‘Metropolitan’ supermarket in Scotland with the store being raised to provide parking s

M&E contractor and installer Arc-Tech (Scotland) Ltd is progressing well on the installation of the mechanical & electrical services on three education projects. Undertaken on behalf of hub West Scotland and Inverclyde Council, each project will receive an extensive suite of mechanical &

Miller Homes has achieved five stars for customer satisfaction in the Home Builders Federation (HBF) National New Home Customer Satisfaction Survey. This is the sixth time in seven years that the homebuilder has achieved five stars in the independent survey, which was launched by the HBF to provide

Recommendations to help close the skills gap in the UK construction industry were highlighted at a recent event held in Glasgow. Over 30 employer organisations from across the construction industry attended a Construct your Future event organised by BCTG Construct – a consortium of educators led b