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A British designer has developed a concept that will allow people to download plans to print and build their own bespoke earth-friendly house over a few days. The inventor say the plans, named WikiHouse, will herald a digital building revolution, letting anyone design a high-performance, low-cost an

Over £5.6 million has been paid out to construction workers by companies involved in blacklisting. A total of 71 members of construction union UCATT have begun to receive blacklisting compensation payouts averaging nearly £80,000 each.

Construction work will finally begin on a new high school in Elgin within weeks, after Moray Council regained control of its soaring costs, the Press and Journal reports. Councillors were dismayed last year after it appeared that delays which set the project back by months had sent costs soaring.

Contracts have been signed to allow construction work to start on the £26.5 million Dalbeattie Learning Campus next month. The facility is being delivered by hub South West on behalf of Dumfries & Galloway Council and in partnership with Graham Construction.

Plans to build over 800 new homes on the site of the former West Lothian hospital are to continue after councillors failed to reach a decision on the application. The proposal for a residential and mixed use development at the former Bangour Village Hospital site in Dechmont was discussed at a meeti

The Institution of Civil Engineers Scotland (ICE) has challenged all policy-makers to sign-up to a pledge supporting infrastructure maintenance, development and delivery for the benefit of the country. Published in the run-up to May’s Scottish Parliament elections, the ICE’s Manifesto for Infras

Minister for business Fergus Ewing has broken ground on a new £4 million testing facility created by oil and gas supply chain firm Sonomatic in Aberdeen. Named “The Core”, the facility will be located in Bridge of Don to the north of Aberdeen City Centre to improve the firm’s logistics.

The Laurieston Transformational Regeneration Area has been named as one of six housing projects across the UK to compete for the Royal Town Planning Institute’s (RTPI) prestigious planning awards this year. Delivering 459 new homes to a 13 hectare regeneration site in the Gorbals, the project join

Jai Thomson and Annie Davies As Scotland gets set to celebrate National Apprenticeship Week (29 February), two school leavers are celebrating the start of their own ‘apprenticeships’ with BAM Construction.

How the revamped Kelvin Hall will look Kelvin Hall redevelopment to be completed by summer

A former public toilet has been put up for sale in Orkney and has attracted interest from around the world, according to the local council. The toilet at Mayburn Court in Stromness is just 28ft by 9ft in size. The property was constructed circa.1960 and is single storey with mono pitch cement fibre

Simplified and streamlined procurement and a renewed focus on energy efficiency in the existing built environment are among the Scottish Building Federation’s recommendations for sustainable growth in the Scottish construction sector. In its policy manifesto for the 2016 Scottish Parliament electi

Energy giant Total has started production on two new West of Shetland gas fields after work completed on the largest building project in the UK since the London Olympics. The huge new gas plant which will service the vast West of Shetland region contains almost one fifth of the UK’s remaining oil

Proposals to relocate Highland Council’s administrative offices to a regenerated conversion of a B-listed former Fort William secondary school have been approved by the local authority. The move is part of a £6 million office rationalisation programme which will also include the demolition of a c

A major programme of enhanced maintenance works costing around £140,000 is due to start next Monday on the A82 route between Tarbet and Inverarnan. The work, which will include a programme of tree and drainage clearance and the removal of loose rocks, meets a pledge that transport minister Derek Ma