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Speirs Gumley's new office Property management firm Speirs Gumley is to expand its operations with the opening of an office in Edinburgh at the end of the month.

Construction director for Scotland, John Moore (left), and regional managing director for Scotland, Simon Phillips Esh Border Construction is looking to build on its first anniversary success with a spring networking event in Edinburgh.

The C-listed Victorian railway arches will become a new retail and leisure quarter under the New Waverley plans After a successful initial round of funding, community groups in Edinburgh are again being asked to bid for grants to enhance the New Waverley development site area in the Old Town while i

Duncan Ogilvie, chief executive, Ogilvie Group (left) and Peter Vardy, chief executive of the automotive retailing group New Peter Vardy building in Aberdeen reaches new heights

Red-faced officers at Angus Council are to lift a pavement inscription celebrating Peter Pan creator JM Barrie after misquoting the Kirriemuir playwright. The words “Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting” were carved into slabs laid around the world-f

EDI Group's 98 room boutique hotel in Edinburgh’s Old Town ISG has secured two prestigious contracts in Edinburgh, with a combined value of £20 million, which will further enhance the city’s reputation for hospitality excellence.

David Thomas Housebuilder Barratt Developments has attributed “strong market conditions” for putting it on track to deliver the expected improvement in performance for its full financial year.

An expanding building services company has announced it has exceeded £10 million in turnover for the first time, as it makes three significant appointments to the business. Gateshead based Robertson Engineering Services, part of infrastructure group Robertson, has grown rapidly since 2014, increasi

Burntwood School in London, which won RIBA’s Stirling prize for the UK’s best building, "should not be the execption" A new report into the state of school buildings throughout the UK has found that too many are dangerous and dilapidated, causing children to underperform and teachers to quit.

The contract to build Wilton Lodge Park’s new café and footbridge in Hawick has been awarded to ESH Border Construction. The firm, which operates throughout the Borders from its base in Galashiels, has previously been involved in Teviot Footbridge in Hawick and Laidlaw Court housing development i

The Phase 1 redevelopment of Royal Edinburgh Campus has been shortlisted in the 2016 Partnership Awards - recognising and rewarding the best in Public Private Partnerships. The £45 million project, being delivered through NHS Lothian's development partner hub South East Scotland, has been named in

(from left) Morrison Construction’s project director Mark Clarke, chair of the education and families committee Vaila Wishart, SIC chief executive Mark Boden and hub North Scotland chief executive Angus Macfarlane The construction of the new Anderson High School and its Halls of Residence has reac

Edinburgh charity extends trusted tradespeople information services A new resource has been launched in Edinburgh to enable not only the elderly, but everyone in the capital, to find trusted tradespeople.

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has developed elevator technologies that achieved a speed of 1,230 meters per minute, or 20.5 meters per second, which the company claims is the fastest elevator speed in the world. The new technologies will be installed to one of three elevators at China's tallest bu

Andrew Kerr An independent inquiry into the closure of 17 Edinburgh schools over structural concerns is to begin after the summer break and conclude before the end of the year, the City of Edinburgh Council confirmed today.