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Queensferry Crossing from south. Image reproduced courtesy of Transport Scotland New speed limit for Queensferry Crossing

A 73-storey office tower in Hong Kong has been sold to a Chinese consortium in what is the highest transaction ever recorded for a single office building. CK Asset Holdings, owned by billionaire and Hong Kong's richest man, Li Ka-Shing, sold the "The Center" for HK$40.2 billion (£4.98bn).

Hamilton Park Racecourse has unveiled plans for a multi-million pound hotel development on its grounds, with a formal planning application made to South Lanarkshire Council.

Dundee City Council has allocated land belonging to 19 former schools for housing.

L-R: Morgan Sindall MD Stuart Parker, Councillor john Wheeler, and head teacher Gael Ross Morgan Sindall has celebrated reaching the topping out stage of its work building the new £13 million Stoneywood Primary School in the Bucksburn area in the north of Aberdeen.

Deafblind Scotland’s new learning and development centre in Lenzie has been officially opened by The Princess Royal.

Catharine Kidd Planning consultancy Turley Heritage has appointed Catharine Kidd as its first director in Scotland as the UK-wide firm targets expansion north of the border.

Nicola Barclay Senior representatives from the home building industry, registered social landlords, local authorities and other housing stakeholder groups totalling 200 people met in Edinburgh yesterday to reflect on the tenth anniversary of the Scottish Government’s “Firm Foundations” discuss

Plumbers and heating engineers in the UK are reporting a huge rise in tool thefts from vans and building sites.

Dalbeattie Learning Campus has officially been handed over to pupils after completion by Graham Construction.

Link completes new development for social rent in Carntyne

Officials in the Austrian city of Salzburg have taken novel steps to address the increasing numbers of people injuring themselves by walking into lampposts while peering into the screens of their smartphones by putting airbags around the uprights. Locally, the word 'Smombies' has even been coined to

Aberdeen Football Club has issued an update on its long-running stadium development saga, saying that it now hopes a decision on the £50 million plans will be taken by councillors before the end of the year.

Professor Gokay Deveci Ugly affordable housing in rural Scotland is damaging tourism, according to a professor of architecture at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen.

Shaun Ormrod The new leadership team at Fife-based fit-out firm Havelock Europa, which this week revealed that it made pre-tax losses of £2.6 million for the six months to the end of June, has set a goal to transform the firm into a £100 million business.