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Greg Fitzgerald Greg Fitzgerald has announced that he will step down next year after 33 years at Galliford Try.

Sandy Adam Moray and Larbert-based Springfield Properties added a further trophy to its awards cabinet with the presentation of Scottish Chamber of Commerce Business of the Year award.

Hundreds of residents are set to benefit after Keepmoat was appointed to carry out improvement works to over 600 homes in Renfrewshire. Renfrewshire Council has appointed the housing and regeneration specialist for the £9 million scheme which will include external wall insulation, re-roofing, rende

Work on the latest phase of the £288 million upgrade of the Glasgow Subway is now underway with the installation of a lift and stunning new glass canopy work at St Enoch Subway station. St Enoch, one of the biggest and busiest of the 15 stations, will be the first on the network to benefit from a l

Jeremy Blackburn A new report from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has proposed a new solution to solve the UK’s chronic housing shortage.

Public sector procurement consortium LHC has helped its members save over £20m in terms of hours worked. Figures released in the LHC annual review for 2013/14 reveal that from April 2013 to March 2014, LHC frameworks were used 229 times by 132 customers on 512 different projects across the UK.

Civic square plan for heart of Shawlands heart Glasgow City Council is consulting local people and businesses on plans for a new public area to be developed on land in front of Langside Hall.

Archie Meikle West Lothian-based construction company Ashwood Scotland is celebrating 15-years in business this month shortly after the completion of its 313th project.

A Shetland apprentice, a plasterer from East Kilbride and a construction worker from Cumnock were all given prestigious industry awards by the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB). Highland lad Christopher Smith took home the National Construction College (NCC) Outstanding Apprentice of the Y

The site of a former retail store in the heart of Glasgow’s West End has been transformed into a bright, modern retail space and student residence thanks to Alumno Developments and Kier Construction. The £8 million project, which began in April 2013 and is now complete, is home to 174 bedrooms wi

Construction works are underway on Artisan Real Estate Investors’ Caltongate development at East Market Street where they are building two hotels for Whitbread PLC as part of their development site in the heart of Edinburgh's Old Town. This phase of the development includes a 127-room Premier Inn

Claire O’Neill It’s countdown time for a Dundee University student who is preparing to face the judges in a national property competition, the Association of Women in Property (WiP) National Student Awards.

Gladstone’s home bags top architecture award The one-time Mearns home of Victorian Prime Minister William Gladstone has soaked up the accolades at the Aberdeenshire Design Awards.

New official output figures from the Office of National Statistics have shown that Scotland had seen the greatest improvement in construction activity output in the UK as a whole. The vast majority of the 12 per cent overall increase north of the border in the year to June was from infrastructure pr

  New retail park planned for north Glasgow could bring over 600 jobs A new retail park planned for a derelict area of land could bring more than 600 jobs to the north of Glasgow. The proposals, lodged with Glasgow City Council, are for four business units, a supermarket, a gym, petrol station