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L&G is to cease production at its timber-frame modular housing factory and will make the "majority" of its 475 staff redundant following £174 million of losses over seven years. The insurance and pensions firm began building prefab houses at its Sherburn-in-Elmet factory, near Se

Updated plans for hundreds of new homes on the site of the former Snodgrass Flour Mill on Glasgow’s Riverside are being brought forward for public consultation.

Sales rates for homes built by Barratt Developments have been maintained throughout a difficult economic period leading the housebuilder to project that its full year adjusted profit before tax will be in line with current market expectations. In a trading update for the period from 1 Janu

Glasgow City Council has approved the programme for regeneration frameworks for four city centre districts. The plans for Cowcaddens, the Learning Quarter, the Merchant City and Townhead will be delivered over the next decade through District Regeneration Frameworks (DRFs) for each of the areas

Proposals by Muir Homes to develop 35 new houses on a vacant brownfield site in Dalgety Bay are set to be considered next week.

The German city of Freiburg has built the first cycle path with a photovoltaic roof in Europe. Constructed in cooperation with badenova and the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE), the 300-metre cycle path at the Freiburg Exhibition Centre is covered by 900 solar modul

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A solar scheme of "seismic proportions" is now live at Scottish Water’s most energy-intensive site.

Construction SMEs risk losing out in a competitive market if they don’t embrace the use of social value in procurement, according to a new report by the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB).

Infrastructure consulting firm AECOM has officially opened its new Bothwell Street office in Glasgow. The new office brings together AECOM’s Glasgow team on one site and is one of the first major office redevelopments AECOM has undertaken for its staff to reflect the new employee preference fo

BESA Scotland’s latest annual Golf Day in Peebles was hailed a huge success with more than 60 members taking part.

Updated floor plan designs for the new Peebles High School building have been made available to view after alterations were been made to the designs following feedback received from the engagement sessions that took place in early February.

Swift Anchors has secured a £395,000 grant from the Offshore Wind Growth Partnership (OWGP).

Research published by the Association for Project Safety (APS), the national membership body representing around 3,500 professionals working in construction health and safety risk management, has revealed the UK’s built environment is at risk of becoming less safe as the industry fails to attr

A charity football tournament organised by staff at Persimmon North Scotland has resulted in £2,000 being raised to support Children’s Hospices Across Scotland (CHAS). A variety of departments were represented as teams from the home builder’s North, East and West Scotland businesse