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Workloads have slowed across most sectors of the construction industry in Scotland amid concerns over Brexit and domestic political instability, surveyors have reported. According to the Q2 2017 UK Construction and Infrastructure Market Survey from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)

Image by Keith Hunter The City Campus at the City of Glasgow College is one of six buildings to be shortlisted for the 22nd annual Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Stirling Prize for the UK’s best new building.

The integration of Hope Construction Materials has resulted in Breedon Group doubling its revenues, leading to a 50% rise in half-year profits. A trading update for the UK’s largest independent construction materials group revealed that income in the six months to the end of June jumped 100% to £

Work on a £2 billion wind farm off the Fife coast will begin next year after the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) lost a long-running legal battle against the development. The Inner House of the Court of Session yesterday refused RSPB Scotland’s application to appeal the Court’s

Plans to build a Regional Performance Centre for Sport in Dundee have been resubmitted after the Scottish Government changed its mind regarding the need for an environmental impact assessment. An application to Dundee City Council to build the centre in Caird Park was submitted in July last year wit

Two serviced plots with planning permission at Kilfinan Community Forest have been released for sale to self-builders with the aim of addressing the local affordable housing shortage. Released by Kilfinan Community Forest Company (KCFC), the sites in Tighnabruaich, Argyll, have a sale price of £30k

The 2017 Architecture Fringe is set to finish with a flourish as three international stars of the industry arrive in Scotland for the festival's Closing Lecture. Architect Sam Jacob of Sam Jacob Studio and the Illinois School of Architecture, curator Beatrice Galilee of the Metropolitan Museum of Ar

(from left) Graham manager Andrzej Suwik, shop manager Pauline Kerr, Graham regional community benefit advisor Debbie Rutherford and Shaun Donnachie Graham Construction completes pro bono hospice shop revamp

'Time to Drown' Govanhill Baths by Alfonso Ramundo An Italian photographer who has lived in Glasgow for 20 years has created a unique collection of photographs of the places in the city he has visited and explored.

Half year results for Morgan Sindall are expected to show a 45% increase in pre-tax profit, the firm has revealed. In a trading update issued this morning the group said that first-half trading has been substantially ahead of the corresponding period last year, driven by improvements in margins and

Josh Littlejohn outside one of the proposed new homes The houses for Social Bite’s new village are now under construction with members of Edinburgh’s homeless community expected to be onsite before Christmas this year, Social Bite co-founder, Josh Littlejohn MBE, confirmed today.

Martyn Brocklesby Concerned over possible complacency, the British Drilling Association (BDA) is issuing a reminder to the drilling sector of the need to address Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome and is supporting the initiative with a number of recommendations.

(from left) Tom Fitzpatrick – Editor of CN, Alasdair Reisner - from CECA, David Cooper, academy manager, Clark Contracts and Stephen Mangan – actor Clark Contracts has won the Training Excellence Award at the UK wide 2017 Construction News Awards.

Gavin Burt AWE awards five-year managed services contract to BakerHicks

Scottish firm NWH Group has invested £50,000 in preserving ‘bat caves’ at its Middleton Quarry site on the outskirts of Edinburgh. The business acquired Middleton Quarry in 2013 with plans to reinstate the site to grass and woodland by firstly in-filling the excavated area with inert material f