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Scottish Enterprise has approved a £4.74 million package to deliver a major new development at the Advanced Manufacturing Innovation District Scotland (AMIDS) in Renfrewshire. This funding will be matched by the AMIDS joint venture partners Renfrewshire Council and Buccleuch Property and will

Vehicle access to Lea Bridge between Gordon Street and Invererne Road in Forres is to be permanently closed following the results of a recent structural assessment.

Owners and tenants of 36 empty properties throughout Argyll and Bute have benefited from support from the council’s Empty Business Property Grant Scheme over the last six months. These have ranged from offices, shops, and hospitality premises to residential units, and holiday accommodation.

Ward councillors from Gorebridge and Bonnyrigg have joined Midlothian Council’s cabinet member for housing, Councillor Stuart McKenzie, on tours of two flagship green‑energy housing projects currently under construction.

Regeneration projects are set to deliver 51 new North Lanarkshire Council homes across four sites in Wishaw town centre. 

Millport residents are to benefit from an energy project which will deliver free solar-powered electricity and community benefits to local homes.

A massive underground pipe unexpectedly shot more than 32 feet out of a construction site in central Osaka overnight, rising so high it nearly touched an elevated roadway before anyone noticed. The steel cylinder’s sudden appearance was first reported early Wednesday by a passerby who saw chun

Works to transform Aberdeen’s historic Castlegate will get underway next week with preliminary activities already taking place. Construction workers will fence off the area which will undergo major improvements as part of Aberdeen City Council’s £150 million city centre and beach m

Morgan Sindall Construction, alongside industry partners, has delivered A World of Work Tasters 2026, welcoming over 200 young people to the Engine Shed in Stirling for a free, three-day event offering hands-on experience across seven construction trades and disciplines.

A cross-government ministerial board has been established to coordinate the Scottish Government’s immediate and longer-term response to the Glasgow Union Corner fire that will support the ongoing critical work of partners and stakeholders.

Work on the new Hazlehead Academy Campus in Aberdeen began in earnest yesterday. The new campus is being built on the playing fields of the existing school, with the current academy continuing to operate throughout the construction phase of the new school building.

Political uncertainty has been found to be a growing challenge for roofing businesses, with many firms feeling the Autumn Budget failed to provide the certainty needed for future planning, a new survey has revealed.

Clyde Gateway has marked the completion of all construction phases at Cuningar Loop Woodland Park with a symbolic final tree planting, celebrating the culmination of more than a decade of transformation at one of Scotland’s most ambitious urban greening projects.

A long-established family-run specialist flooring contractor headquartered in East Kilbride has ceased trading after its directors appointed administrators this week, with 43 employees made redundant. George Lafferty of BTG was appointed administrator of Industrial Floor Treatments Limited on 10 Mar

Scottish surveyors have reported slower homebuyer demand in February but they expect sales and prices to continue rising, according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Residential Market Survey.