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Plans submitted for Stirlingshire green belt homes Graham’s The Family Dairy and housing developer Mactaggart & Mickel Homes have submitted fresh plans for a new town on green belt land in Stirlingshire.

RICS Scotland Project of the Year Winner – Knockando Woolmill A six month search to find Scotland’s leading property and construction projects is now on following the launch of the RICS Scotland Awards 2015.

Major housing plans which could see 1,500 homes built along with a primary school on land to the west of Perth have been submitted by the Pilkington Trust. The proposed Almond Valley Village is set to take shape on a 160-acre site in the Ruthvenfield/Huntingtowerfield areas of the city,

Margaret Burgess More than 1,600 households in the social rented sector will be fitted with measures to make them warmer and cheaper to heat, with the announcement of a £4.5 million fuel poverty fund from the Scottish Government.

Builders construct a slight rise in Scottish start-ups A recovery in construction has driven up new Scottish business start-up numbers.

An Aberdeen modular cabin firm is supplying accommodation for the multi-million pound Forth Replacement Crossing construction project.

Constructionarium, the programme that gives students ‘hands on’ experience of constructing real, scaled-down versions of buildings and civil engineering projects, celebrated another successful year at its annual gathering at the RIBA last week. Speakers provided a snapshot of Constructionariumâ€

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority is looking for a contractor to start work on the £17m national nuclear archive at Wick, Caithness. The building, work on which will start next summer, will provide long-term storage for a huge volume of records and other archive material from civil nuclear site

Mohamed Al-Fayed Wealthy entrepreneur Mohamed Al-Fayed has appealed to the UK Supreme Court in his battle to stop a huge incinerator being built near his home in the Highlands.

A £3.5 billion investment by Scottish Water is to support 5,000 jobs in the construction sector as it begins a six-year programme to boost its infrastructure.

Steve Marshall Balfour Beatty has issued its fifth profit warning this year which warned that its construction business is likely to show a £75 million profit shortfall at the end of the year.

Employers in the Scottish construction sector are ‘cautiously optimistic’ about future prospects for the industry as 42 per cent expect to take on more workers over the next three years. However, the reduction in industry employment experienced in recent years combined with a steadily ageing wor

The Hunterston ILW and SILWE site Balfour Beatty has been appointed by Magnox to deliver the £34m Solid Intermediate Level Waste Encapsulation (SILWE) contract at the Hunterston A former power station in North Ayrshire.

Fergus Ewing The UK Government have announced that they are to remove the rights of householders to object to oil and gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing beneath their homes.

The firm behind the £150 million Caltongate development in Edinburgh’s Old Town has announced that work is set to begin before the end of the year. Artisan Real Estate Investors said that demolition works have now started with building work expected begin in November, according to The Scotsman.