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Scotland is storming ahead of the rest of the UK in building new homes, according to new figures from the Scottish Government. SNP Housing Minister Kevin Stewart confirmed that the rate of housebuilding in Scotland last year outstripped figures for England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Loretto Housing Association is investing £54 million in building new homes and improving existing properties across central Scotland. The housing association – which is part of Wheatley Group – has revealed that, over five years, it is spending £46m on building more than 450 new affordable hom

The regeneration of the centre of the Fife town of Lochgelly has been awarded first place in two categories at the Planning and Placemaking Awards which took place last week in London. The regeneration of Lochgelly which lead to the winning of the Promoting Economic Growth and overall Scottish Regio

Mactaggart & Mickel Homes, the award-winning family housebuilder, has announced its support for inspiring Glasgow-based organisation, The Depressed Cake Shop. The company will donate £1,000 as well as providing support in kind throughout the year as part of its commitment to supporting local go

Peter Bain head teacher, Chloe Hamilton youngest pupil and Stephen Povey head boy with members of the Oban High School pipeband perform the cutting ceremony. Work starts on trio of Argyll and Bute schools

UK housebuilder Redrow has beaten its 2016 profit forecasts after a big year for reservations and disposals. The business now predicts pre-tax profit for the year to June will exceed the top end of analysts' estimates, currently £240 million, on “record” private reservations, up 46 per cent to

Ian Gibson Robertson Facilities Management has won a major contract with East Renfrewshire Council to supply electrical maintenance services across the region.

A new business park forecast to bring hundreds of jobs to South Lanarkshire has announced the sale of their first and largest plot, which is forecast to bring upwards of 100 jobs to Rutherglen and the local area, has been announced this week.

L-R Tom Craig, Ross Mickel and Paul Andrews Glasgow-based Mactaggart & Mickel Group has been declared the Property & Construction Family Business of the Year for 2016.

City Legacy, the developers of the Athletes’ Village in Glasgow as part of the Commonwealth Games, presented a cheque for £30,000 to the Brick by Brick Appeal yesterday. The appeal is raising funds to build a new home for Glasgow’s Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice.

Phil Purves, a site manager at Cruden Homes, has spoken of his experiences having just returned from a trip visiting schools and communities in Rwanda in East Africa during which he led a delegation that aimed to help build communities, not with bricks and mortar but with football. Alongside his day

The students receiving the awards Top students recognised by Clark Contracts

  Hundreds of thousands of people are flocking to Lake Iseo in Northern Italy to walk on water.

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Mackintosh and Reid Buildings (Image: Alan McAteer). Kier Construction has been appointed as the main contractor for the Mackintosh Building restoration, it was announced today.