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The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service’s civil recovery unit will recover £2.2 million, under an agreed civil settlement with a Glasgow-based company which accepted that it had obtained business through unlawful conduct. The recovered funds will be used for community projects across Scotl

The Newburgh Underbridge, part of the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route/Balmedie-Tipperty (AWPR/B-T) project, will see more construction activity next week when fifteen 29m long beams, weighing 52 tonnes each, are planned to be delivered to site.

Inverurie-headquartered timber engineering business Scotframe is accustomed to clients seeking out its services from places much further afield than its Scottish manufacturing bases. But recent contracts have taken the UK’s leading full kit manufacturer to pastures remarkably new - more than 8000

The Queensferry Crossing - currently under construction. Aberdeen-based Greenwell Equipment, which supplies containers, modular buildings, office cabins, pallet racking and office furniture, has this month shipped modular buildings to the new relief road project at Manchester Airport and a head offi

Loaning Road Developer Cullross has submitted a planning application for 59 new homes at Loaning Road in the Craigentinny area of Edinburgh, designed by JM Architects.

Atlantic Islands Centre A new community facility and visitor centre, designed by Shauna Cameron Architect, on the Isle of Luing, one of Scotland’s slate islands in Argyll and Bute, has won the Scottish Civic Trust My Place Awards 2016.

An independent panel of judges has announced the finalists of the fourth annual North-east Trades Awards, after receiving the highest number of applications to date. The awards, which are once again sponsored by Stewart Milne Group, aim to reward and recognise excellence within the North-east trades

A group of children helped police investigators make an arrest by quickly constructing an arrow using their own bodies that led a police helicopter in the right direction. Quick-thinking kids who were taking part in an Easter egg hunt in the English village of Capel, Surrey, realised they were in th

The Learning and Teaching Hub set for the Gilmorehill Campus Faithful+Gould has been appointed as programme and project manager for the 10-year, £1 billion expansion of the University of Glasgow's Gilmorehill Campus.

Dame Zaha Hadid (image by Brigitte Lacombe) World-renowned architect Dame Zaha Hadid, whose designs include Glasgow's Riverside Museum, has died aged 65.

Mark Robinson Scape Group has published details of its new National Construction framework for major public sector construction projects of more than £2 million.

The Sullom Voe oil terminal Plans to build a £500 million gas processing plant at the Sullom Voe terminal in Shetland have been put on hold by oil giant BP.

McLaughlin & Harvey (McL&H) has completed a £2 million fit-out for Strathclyde Partnership for Transport’s (SPT) new head office at 131 St. Vincent Street in Glasgow. The Glasgow office of McLaughlin & Harvey was on site for 18 weeks and delivered a full office fit-out for the transpo

A speculative industrial building at Link Park in North Lanarkshire Changes to business rates for empty properties in Scotland, which come into force today, could lead to a slowdown in industrial developments and limit choice for businesses looking to expand north of the border, according to Knight

An appeal to overturn a decision to reject plans to build new homes on the site of an ancient Perthshire battleground has been dismissed by the Scottish Government. Developer Ribbon Homes wanted to create 12 homes on land which was once the scene of the 17th Century Battle of Tippermuir.