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Dr Noble Francis Construction output is forecast to increase 5.5 per cent in 2015, according to the latest forecasts from the Construction Products Association.

Gerard Eadie Latest accounts for Fife-based double glazing and conservatory company CR Smith have shown the firm to have posted a healthy profit on the back of a seven-figure payout following a successful legal action stretching back more than a decade.

Developers have revealed plans for a £300 million purpose-built cruise ship terminal on the site of a decommissioned coal-fired power station at Cock­enzie in East Lothian.

Scottish fit-out specialist Thomas Johnstone has won a £1.5 million contract to transform a building owned by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

Stephen Good The Scottish construction sector has no need to be concerned despite a fall in construction output, according to an industry professional.

PickergIll House The developer behind the major transformation of Inverurie Loco Works has lodged revised plans to create a second hostel on the site.

Work on redeveloping an old Dundee asylum could be delayed until 2017 after the plans were called in by the Scottish Government. Plans were finally approved on December 18 to convert the former Strathmartine Hospital into 222 new homes following years of debate and an initial failed application to r

1 West Regent Street Arup takes entire floor at 1 West Regent Street

Ian Taylor By Ian Taylor, PfH Scotland

The University of Aberdeen New Library received a BREEAM Excellent rating Aberdeen City Council is to be the first local authority in Scotland to have in-house BREEAM assessors who will review developments for environmental performance.

CCG has been selected for a new £3 billion UK framework designed to fast-track development of surplus public land. The Glasgow firm was named alongside Wates, Willmott Dixon, Morgan Sindall and Bouygues having been invited to tender in January.

Persimmon Homes East Scotland has started work on a 20 acre housing development in South Gyle, Edinburgh and is poised to begin a £17.6 million housing development in Larbert. In Edinburgh, Persimmon has started building 204 properties at its £24 million development named Station Mews at the histo

The University of Aberdeen has put a number of major projects at the campus on hold as part of plans to reduce its budget by £10.5 million. All capital expenditure projects which have yet to start have been put on hold for three months, including the £100m energy research centre and the redevelopm

Collective Architecture have been appointed to design the Briggait Creation Centre, the currently undeveloped land to the south of the existing Wasps Studios. The £4 million Briggait Creation Centre will give Glasgow its first dedicated public base for dance and Scotland’s first purpose built acc

Twenty one apprentices who were made redundant following the closure of Dundee-based building firm Muirfield Contracts have been re-deployed thanks to an innovative partnership between the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) and the local construction industry in Tayside. When the news about