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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

Plans will be lodged next week for the second phase of housing at the Athletes’ Village, in Glasgow which could see a further 200 new homes built at the site, according to the Evening Times. A school and shops are also planned, with work due to start next year. Developer City Legacy intends to lod

Retail specialist contractor Barr Construction has commenced construction on the site of the new Waitrose in Milngavie. Developers Town Centre Securities appointed Barr Construction as main contractors of the Milngavie site which will be the retailer’s seventh outlet and fourth new-build store in

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has produced a paper to outline the potential implications and impact that the referendum debate and further devolution of powers or independence may have on land, property and construction in Scotland. The global organisation is the principal body

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  The first of twelve schemes in the £3 billion A9 dualling programme has been brought forward today and a contract worth around £50 million put to the market.

Nick Pollard Balfour Beatty has revealed it will close three regional businesses as it hopes to be trading profitably by the end of the year.

Stewart Milne Stewart Milne has announced his is stepping down as chief executive of the Aberdeen-based construction group he founded in 1975.

Plans for a multi-million pound bridge between two remote Orkney islands could end the shortest schedule flight in the world. The air link between Westray and Pappa Westray could be grounded by a scheme to build tunnels, bridges and causeways between a number of Orkney’s islands, the Scotsman has