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The amount of money borrowed by the City of Edinburgh Council to fund capital expenditure is set to fall over coming years. The council’s Annual Treasury Strategy 2016/17, to be discussed by members of the finance and resources committee next week, aims to ensure the council meets its funding and

East Dunbartonshire Council has granted planning permission to build a new primary school in Kirkintilloch. The decision will allow the final project design to be progressed to financial close, subject to council approval.

The number of new homes registered to be built in Scotland topped 12,700 in 2015, a continued increase of 15 per cent on the previous year, new NHBC figures have revealed. In total, 12,755 new homes were registered by NHBC in 2015 compared to 11,138 in 2014.

All the painter and decorator apprentices that took part in the event were: Kyle Moran, Lisa Murphy, Andrew Weir, Michael McManus, Joseph Barr, John Kavanagh, Gillian Grant, Adams Gibbs, Craig Morrison and Christian Gibson A team of young apprentices from City Building has helped bring British desig

Legal & General enter £600m partnership to provide 3,000 UK build to rent homes Legal & General Capital (LGC) and Dutch pension fund manager PGGM have announced plans to invest £600 million into building over 3,000 purpose built private rental housing across the UK.

A team of Edinburgh University students are heading off to Texas to present their plans for a "Hyperloop" hyper-fast transportation system to a tech billionaire, the BBC has reported. The mission of 21-year-old Adam Anyszewski, a third year engineering student at Edinburgh University is to create so

Growth in Scotland’s construction industry over the next five years will largely be driven by housebuilding as many of the national large-scale infrastructure come to an end, though more than 21,000 new workers will be needed to replace those leaving the workforce, according to new research. Today

Engineers working on the new Queensferry Crossing say they are confident that the £1.4 billion project is on course to be completed on time and under budget. Scheduled to open to traffic in December this year, the bridge now has around 1,300 workers employed on its delivery.

Tony Fry Work to redevelop part of the Inshes Retail Park in Inverness will start early this year, with Robertson Group set to take on the £3 million project.

Work has started on what will become Scotland’s largest and most energy efficient data centre development in Fife. Contractors moved onto site this week to begin demolishing parts of the former Tullis Russell paper mill in Glenrothes in preparation for the construction of a state-of-the-art Queens

Gerard Eadie Double-glazing and conservatories business CR Smith has revealed plans to expand into the English market after reporting a fifth consecutive year of turnover growth by its core business.

Dr David Kelly, group director BRE Innovation Park Networks (left) and Ken Macintosh MSP Ken Macintosh MSP, Scottish Labour’s shadow cabinet secretary for communities, became the latest in a series of politicians to undertake a fact finding tour at the award winning BRE Ravenscraig Innovation Park

The transformation of some of Greater Glasgow’s most important infrastructure, including a major flooding project in Springburn, is progressing deep beneath the city streets, as Keith Brown MSP, cabinet secretary for infrastructure, investment and cities, saw today. Scottish Water is more than hal

£10m Kirkcaldy retail park plan ‘would create 230 jobs’ Owners of the Fife Central Retail Park in Kirkcaldy say a £10 million investment will bring at least 230 new jobs to the region and breathe new life into the development.

Power tools have topped the list as the most stolen item from building sites in 2015, a new survey has revealed. A national security equipment installation and servicing company has found that smaller, easy-to-fence items are more likely to be stolen, but there are still significant numbers of theft