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A CCG apprentice Construction and manufacturing business CCG has won the ‘Excellence in Young People Development’ award at the Lanarkshire Business Excellence Awards.

Annual total return on Scottish Commercial property rose 5.1 per cent during 2014. Figures released in CBRE’s latest Scotland Property Quarterly report also revealed that despite progressive improvement during the first three quarters of last year, returns for the final quarter fell back a little.

Plans for a new £44 million school campus in Tain in Easter Ross were given the green light yesterday from Highland Council. Children aged from three to 18 would receive nursery and school education in new buildings proposed for the site of the current Tain Royal Academy.

Administrators have been called in to Grangemouth-based demolition specialist Masterton Ltd, after a proposal to keep the business was rejected by creditors. Masterton specialised in hazard and asbestos removal, asset recovery, waste management, building demolition and ground engineering.

Administrators appointed to oversee the future of Muirfield Contracts Ltd have warned of "significant" redundancies.

Alex Neil A website designed to modernise the planning system in Scotland has saved an average of £241 for over 100,000 people and businesses since its launch in 2009.

McAleer & Rushe has bagged a hat-trick of hotel wins with a £19m contract to build 146-bedroom Adagio Aparthotel for Artisan Real Estate Investors on its New Waverley regeneration scheme in central Edinburgh.

First glimpse of music hall’s proposed updates unveiled

Craig McFarlane Barratt Homes has promoted Craig McFarlane to the position of construction director in the West of Scotland.

Miller Homes Limited has successfully appealed against the decision to refuse a planning application for a new residential development over the potential loss of environmental land. Judges in the Inner House of the Court of Session quashed the decision after ruling that the reporter’s conclusion w

The consortium behind plans for a new £270m hospital in Dumfries has reached financial close on the deal.

A landmark decision handed down by the Supreme Court has left Royal Bank of Scotland open to a compensation claim that could run to as much as £3 million – a case that experts claim could be repeated throughout the banking industry. Scottish builder Derek Carlyle’s seven-year battle with the 82

Andrew Davies Contractor Wates Group has reported pre-tax profits of £22.6m (£22.3m in 2013), from a turnover of £1.05bn (£931m in 2013), according to its results for 2014.

House sales exceeded £15.3 billion in 2014, according to statistics published today by Registers of Scotland (RoS). A total of 93,875 sales took place across Scotland in 2014, the highest annual figure since 2008, and an increase of 11.6 per cent compared to the previous year.