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A joint venture of Atkins and Mouchel has secured the last of three design contracts in the project to upgrade the A9 to a dual carriageway. The £40 million contract involves design work for the road between Dalraddy and Inverness.

(left to right) Cube director David Mackenzie, West Dunbartonshire Council housing convener councillor David McBride, Wheatley Group director of business development Gillian Lavety, Cube chair Liz Ruine, Wheatley Group director of property Alex McGuire and West Dunbartonshire Council executive direc

Jim MacDonald and minister for local government and community empowerment Marco Biagi at the Stalled Spaces Scotland Seminar Seven local authorities have been chosen to roll out the Legacy 2014 programme Stalled Spaces Scotland led by Architecture and Design Scotland (A+DS).

Glasgow based construction and manufacturing business CCG has been selected to deliver the ‘Panelised Systems’ Framework for public sector procurement consortium LHC. The LHC Frameworks are designed to support public sector organisations in accessing the best value, quality solutions for project

City Building Glasgow has revealed it is pleased with its results despite ending 2013-2014 more than £4.3 million in the red. The arm’s length external organisation, which lost £1.2m the year before, says it has performed well in tough economic times and remains a going concern, with backing fro

Two of Britain's biggest housebuilders Barratt Developments and Taylor Wimpey are to join the FTSE 100 index, it has been announced.

Mitie Group has extended its transformational partnership delivering integrated facilities management (FM) for Lloyds Banking Group.

Philip Hogg The radical overhaul of stamp duty announced by chancellor George Osborne in yesterday’s Autumn Statement has emphasised the need an intermediate band in Scotland’s new Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT), according to Scotland’s home builders industry body.

John Laing Infrastructure Fund has made a £1 billion offer for the public-private partnership assets of Balfour Beatty, highlighting the attraction of work on schools and hospitals for private sector firms. The non-binding offer equates to more than three quarters of the market capitalisation of Ba

The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has awarded Historic Scotland a £3.8 million grant to create Scotland’s first building conservation centre at The Engine Shed in Stirling.

Alex Goodfellow Stewart Milne Timber Systems has been appointed as one of the approved contractors for the New Homes Framework for England, Wales, and Scotland, by public sector procurement specialist, LHC.

Detailed design work for the new Girvan and South Carrick leisure and community facility is about to get underway, following the appointment of the contractors to design and construct the new building.

The preferred bidder to build a state-of-the-art resource for processing household rubbish has been announced by Zero Waste: Edinburgh and Midlothian.

Alex Neil The Scottish Government is investing £25 million next year in charitable bonds that could lead to up to 450 affordable homes being built, social justice secretary Alex Neil confirmed today.

A man with an interest in a property which was found to be in a “state of disrepair” has failed in an appeal against the decision to grant a compulsory purchase order (CPO) over the house. Judges in the Court of Session Inner House were not persuaded that there was any force in any of the compla