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A restoration project worth more than £22,000 has been completed to transform the iconic Merchants House in Glasgow back to its former glory in order to welcome more visitors through its doors. Glasgow construction firm City Building has been highly-praised for its work to transform an historic par

Peveril Securities is on the verge of submitting plans for a mixed use scheme at Edinburgh’s Kings Stables Road.

(left to right) – David Kirkwood, Jack Sinclair, Dylan McTaggart, Gary Murray and Ross Hickman with the team at Fortune Works. A team of apprentice joiners from Glasgow construction company City Building have been putting their skills to good use to support a Drumchapel-based initiative that provi

‘Global construction market to grow by $8 trillion by 2030’

Architects Foster + Partners New York’s design for a modular habitat on Mars has been shortlisted amongst 30 finalists for NASA-organised 3D Printed Habitat Challenge.

150-bed Pollok care home plan surfaces Glasgow City Council has submitted plans for a 150 bed residential care home and day care centre in Pollok, offering a range of facilities including sensory and treatment rooms.

Queen's Cross Housing Association is to spend £13 million to carry out major internal and external improvements to 314 of its properties. Housebuilding specialist, Keepmoat, will carry out work at the Cedar Court mutli-storey flats, which will include insulated external cladding, new energy efficie

Jewitt & Wilkie Architects and Spectrum Properties have drawn up plans for the residential conversion and extension of the B-listed former Strathclyde Public School and nearby print works at Dalmarnock, Glasgow, which latterly served as the Strathclyde Business Centre. Sharing a public square op

David Murray Former Rangers owner Sir David Murray has been in talks over the future of two closure-threatened steel plants in Scotland.

Douglas House Keppie Design has revealed its plans for a 15 storey office block on the site of Douglas House, Glasgow.

Anderson Bell + Christie Architects have submitted plans for the delivery of a second phase of 148 flats and town houses around a linear park at Laurieston, Glasgow, on behalf of Urban Union.

A planning application has been lodged by Sheratan Ltd to build housing, a new primary school and a long talked about park for Edinburgh. The area, covering c. 170 acres at the Edmonstone Estate in Little France, will be masterplanned to maximise the benefits to the South East of the City.

A cowboy builder from Perthshire has been jailed after a court heard how he had pocketed £400,000 in a huge bogus repairs scam spanning four years. Patrick Young conned a string of homeowners including a 79 year-old man who was ripped off to the tune of £172,000 and an 84-year-old woman who handed

A £15.4 million project to build a new purpose-built education campus in Balloch has been submitted for planning. Holmes Miller, in tandem with Morgan Sindall and West Dunbartonshire Council, are behind plans for the Balloch Shared Campus, a new school on the site of the existing St Kessog’s Prim