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Neil Armstrong Workplace specialists Space Solutions has announced a key appointment to lead and deliver a new marketing strategy to capitalise on record financial results from the company.

British Geological Survey HQ clears planning Planners have given their consent to a three storey research and office building for Heriot Watt University and the British Geological Survey on the institution’s Riccarton campus, Edinburgh.

Nicola Sturgeon Witnesses will now be compelled to give evidence to the Edinburgh trams inquiry following its conversion from a non-statutory to full, statutory inquiry by the Scottish Government.

Greg Fitzgerald Galliford Try’s order book has grown to £3.1 billion following its acquisition of Miller Construction, the firm revealed today.

M & K MacLeod has noted an improvement in the market for housebuilding but warned that confidence remains fragile among construction firms. In the latest accounts for the privately owned construction company, which operates throughout Argyll and the Islands, directors said the Scottish Governmen

Lend Lease is being lined up as main contractor for Land Securities’ £230m Buchanan Galleries shopping centre in Glasgow, according to multiple sources.

Orkney Community Planning Partnership (CPP) lacks effective leadership - all partners need urgently to agree priorities and align resources to deliver them, a report published for the Accounts Commission and the Auditor General for Scotland has concluded. The report cites good examples of island bod

The widows of two of Scotland’s greatest 20th Century architects, Professors Andy MacMillan OBE and Isi Metzstein OBE, Angela and Dany, have been awarded Honorary Fellowships from the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS). The presentations were made during the annual RIAS Andrew Do

(L-R) Rose Yeats (Stewarton Academy), Charlie Christie (design manager, McLaughlin & Harvey), Jemma Shields (Stewarton Academy), Ryan Sylvester (divisional director, Keppie Design) and Megan Kernaghan (Stewarton Academy) reviewing drawings at the site office of the new Kilmarnock campus of Ayrsh

Alex Botha The British Safety Council has warned that devolution of health and safety regulation to Scotland could create different standards of worker protection across Great Britain.

Partnerships paves way for new Dundee housing project Housebuilder Merchant Homes and Home Scotland have begun work on a multi-million pound development in Dundee.

Alloa based Marshall Construction has won its fourth contract with TJ Morris Ltd, the company behind the growing Home Bargains retail brand.

A sod cutting event took place yesterday to mark the start of construction work at the new Boroughmuir High School in Edinburgh.

City Legacy, the consortium which designed, constructed and delivered the Athletes’ Village, has been presented with three planning awards at one of the Scottish Government’s most prestigious events.

Sarah Speirs The UK has seen its sixth consecutive quarterly decline in office space availability though office and industrial sector rents are expected to rise at the fastest rate since 1998 over next quarter, the latest RICS commercial property survey has revealed.