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Perth and Kinross councillors have approved plans for 29 homes on the site of the former Gartwhinzean Hotel in Powmill. Kera Scotland Ltd submitted the proposal for a mix of two- and three-bedroom homes, including seven affordable houses, on the site of the hotel, which was demolished after a devast

The JR Group has given its support to a number of local community groups and schools around Hawick.

Construction companies in West Lothian have pledged to rally round each other amid challenging times for the sector.

City Building has opened a new wellness room to support the mental wellbeing of its employees.

Clark Contracts has been re-appointed to Scotland Excel’s £1.5 billion New Build Residential Construction Framework. The contractor has been appointed to all five lots of the framework which covers both the traditional build and design and build, of various sizes of housing developments

Taylor Wimpey West Scotland has donated £11,000 to St Vincent’s Hospice in Johnstone from its staff and charities committee. St Vincent’s Hospice, located in Howwood, Renfrewshire, aims to provide access to the best  possible care and support to everyone living with a lif

A conservation charity has decried a proposal from Netflix to erect a plaque in Edinburgh marking a location loosely related to a series it released earlier this year.

New national occupational standards for tunnelling and chimney work have been introduced by the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB). CITB, the body that sets the standards for the construction industry, worked with TunnelSkills, the national specialist training group for the UK tunnelling se

Aberdeen-headquartered 3t Training Services has been awarded £200,000 from the Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB) to help it build three mobile training units which will be used to deliver training across the engineering construction industry.

A ceremony has been held to mark the start of construction for a new medical and dental centre at Leuchars Station in Fife. The construction contract, worth nearly £22 million, was awarded by the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) to GRAHAM last year. 

Work is now under way on the £20.3 million regeneration of a former hotel in the east of Glasgow.

International architecture firm BDP has relocated its Glasgow office to the iconic Grosvenor Building at 72 Gordon Street opposite Glasgow Central Station. The move, facilitated by Ryden's office agency team, sees BDP occupy the entire 8,584 sq ft second floor of the building, originally designed in

Kier Construction's design manager Emily Carr has been crowned as Scotland's Local Hero at a prestigious national awards ceremony during UK Construction Week. The award was presented at the Top 100 Most Influential Women in Construction Awards 2024 held recently in Birmingham, which celebrates

A finalised masterplan for the development of the Forthside area has been approved by Stirling Council.

Distillers should give more consideration to repurposing old buildings instead of building brand-new distilleries in order to tackle the climate crisis, an architecture firm has said.