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Historic Edinburgh observatory in £4m culture and science hub in restoration plan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_fUKDmI8bU They may have been constructed to be "indestructible" but increasing numbers of shopkeepers are refusing to accept new polymer bank notes because customers have taken on such claims as a challenge and are ruining them.

The Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh Repairs are needed to almost a third of all NHS Scotland buildings with 50 per cent of the maintenance backlog in some board areas classed as “high risk and significant”, Audit Scotland has warned.

NWH managing director Mark Williams Waste and construction services company NWH Group has secured a £7 million finance facility from Royal Bank of Scotland to help the company fund future acquisitions.

Martin McAlinden Ground engineering specialist Keller has strengthened its presence in Scotland with the appointment of project manager Martin McAlinden to its Dunfermline office.

Construction union UCATT has raised concerns over a decision by two major Scottish infrastructure projects not to reappoint union convenors. The two consortia building the new Queensferry Crossing and the Aberdeen West Peripheral Route (AWPR) schemes have rejected the idea of replacing union conveno

The new Edinburgh St James development offers a fine example of the public and private sectors working together, says economy convener Cllr Gavin Barrie. After 40 years of trading, the doors have now closed for the last time on the St James Centre and work has now begun on the much anticipated £1bn

In September, the Scottish Government published several documents relating to the use of Project Bank Accounts (PBAs). These documents include:

Dundee Repertory Theatre Architect Andrew Nicoll, who co-founded Broughty Ferry practice Nicoll Russell Studios, has died at the age of 76.

(from left) CITB CEO Adrian Belton, Sophie Turner and presenter Phil Vickery Orkney stonemason apprentice wins national construction award

Grant Henderson Tankers (GHT) is a waste removal company, with quite simply one of the best email addresses in history. The Glaswegian firm is responsible for pumping the human waste out of mobile toilets, and according to its website it also does drain unblocking and 'septic tank services'.

Artist’s impression of Dundee’s new V&A museum Dundee City Council has outlined plans to invest almost £400 million on infrastructure projects across the city over the next five years.

The school planned for Bertha Park Perth & Kinross Council is to spend £145 million in the region's school estate over the next seven years.

University of the West of Scotland’s (UWS) plans to create a new state-of-the-art campus in Lanarkshire have taken a step forward with the formal contract signing now completed. The University has agreed a partnership with South Lanarkshire Council to deliver the 38-acre ultra-modern campus at Ham

Kingshill Commercial Park in Aberdeen The commercial property markets in Scotland and London are lagging behind the rest of the UK which is showing some signs of a return to a more positive mood post the EU vote, a survey has found.