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Steve Radley Construction firms remain highly optimistic about their business outlook, despite a slight dip in growth momentum last month, the results of a survey of purchasing managers have revealed.

The development of a new £39 million Community Campus in Forfar reached an important milestone on Wednesday after contractor Robertson Tayside ‘topped out’ the building. Celebrating the completion of the highest point of the structure, construction will now focus on making the building wind and

A demolition firm has been fined £5,000 after a worker fell from a scaffolding platform in Glasgow and suffered severe injuries. DSR Demolition Limited pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 6(3) of the Work at Height Regulations 2005 and Section 33(1)(c) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.

The Young Professionals in Construction (YPiC) networking group is to build on its hugely successful inaugural event with a second meeting, this time in Glasgow. The second YPiC Wednesday will be hosted in The Corinthian Club, on the 9th December from 6:30 pm till 8:30pm.

Planning officials have advised councillors to approve plans for 164 new homes in Perth. The Bellway Homes development will be situated on land to the west of Cherrybank Gardens and next to the Broxden services.

John Alexander Dundee City Council has announced plans to invest almost £4 million into improvements to multi-storey properties across the city.

Lesley Laird A Fife Council-led survey has revealed wide-spread support for an overhaul of the Scottish planning system to aid development planning and future housing delivery among local people, communities and businesses.

Students move into Partick development Partick’s latest student housing development has opened its doors to tenants following completion of work on the Falconer Chester Hall designed build.

Architect Ian Simpson has apologised for what residents have described as a howl, a hum and a scream emanating from a skyscraper in Manchester. The 47-storey Beetham Tower emits a weird and incredibly loud noise every time the wind picks up.

Scotland’s architecture will take centre stage during 2016, as Scots and visitors to Scotland join the most ambitious ever nationwide celebration of the built environment of a single country. Curated by the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS), the Festival of Architecture 2016 wil

The Scottish Government has surpassed its target of delivering 30,000 affordable homes in this parliamentary term thanks to a 10 per cent increase in the number of social sector homes completed in the past year, new figures have revealed. Official statistics released yesterday show that 3,879 new ho

An expanding Scottish property firm is preparing to embark on a key project in the capital as it targets opportunities nationwide. West Coast Estates will transform a vacant commercial site on Craighall Road in Edinburgh to create a mixed use development comprising a neighbourhood supermarket, child

A new briefing paper has detailed the significant contribution that sustainability standard BREEAM has given to the global carbon reduction in buildings. Published during global climate change conference COP21, the paper also gives details of how BREEAM has evolved since the standard was created 25

North Ayrshire Council has completed the construction of a new sheltered housing complex in the heart of Irvine. Vennel Gardens is the first project in the council’s Sheltered Housing Reprovisioning Programme, which aims to improve and modernise existing complexes and bring them up to a standard t

BAM Construction’s Johnstone Town Hall has scooped yet another award, this time from the Glasgow Institute of Architects. The community building, designed by Holmes Miller, received a commendation in the commercial category. Judges praised the project saying that “the development illustrates an