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Pineapple Building, Dunmore. A land and property specialist firm has secured a new contract with The Landmark Trust to play a key role in upgrading some of Scotland’s most famous historic buildings.

Niall Stuart A new report has shown that Scotland will miss its 100 per cent renewable electricity target without further investment in onshore and offshore wind.

Alex Johnstone A voluntary code should be adopted by house builders to end ‘rabbit hutch housing’, the Scottish Conservatives have announced.

The UK Government should do more to help builders access a £525m loans scheme that it designed especially for them, says an industry expert at the UK200Group of independent chartered accountancy and legal firms. The Builders Finance Fund (BFF) was launched in April 2014 to support housing projects

As some of Scotland sees localised flooding, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) has launched a new interactive flood reporting tool in order to help communities across Scotland be flood-prepared. ‘Report–a-Flood’ (which can be viewed at: www.floodlinescotland.org.uk/report-a-flo

Perth and Kinross delivers new council homes for Auchterarder Perth & Kinross Council's multi-million pound programme of social housing construction has taken another major step forward with the completion of a new development in Castlemains, Auchterarder.

Hector MacAulay Balfour Beatty has today announced that Hector MacAulay has been appointed as managing director for its regional construction and civil engineering business in Scotland and Ireland.

The latest graduate destination figures demonstrate that the labour market for building and architecture graduates is enjoying a vigorous recovery, despite being one of the sectors worst hit by the recession. Architecture and building graduates enjoyed higher than average employment rates with 85.1

Hannah Heaton, originally from Fife, has become the first ever recipient of ‘The Derek Mickel Architecture Scholarship’.

Crichton Campus, Dumfries. A masterplan has been unveiled outlining potential developments on the site of a former psychiatric hospital in Dumfries.

Planned expansion of Roswell, Midlothian. Hamilton-based developer Banks Property expects to submit a planning application for a new 100-home residential development in the historic leafy village of Rosewell, Midlothian early next year.

A restoration project worth more than £22,000 has been completed to transform the iconic Merchants House in Glasgow back to its former glory in order to welcome more visitors through its doors. Glasgow construction firm City Building has been highly-praised for its work to transform an historic par

Peveril Securities is on the verge of submitting plans for a mixed use scheme at Edinburgh’s Kings Stables Road.

(left to right) – David Kirkwood, Jack Sinclair, Dylan McTaggart, Gary Murray and Ross Hickman with the team at Fortune Works. A team of apprentice joiners from Glasgow construction company City Building have been putting their skills to good use to support a Drumchapel-based initiative that provi

‘Global construction market to grow by $8 trillion by 2030’