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Works have started on a new £10 million Aberdeen store for national improvements giant Wickes.

Maxi Construction has secured a place on The Common Services Agency (NHS National Services Scotland) Minor Works Framework. The Livingston-based contractor has been appointed to the Low Value (£50k-£500k) and Medium Value (£500k-£1.5m) Lots for various health board areas thro

Fife Council is investing an additional £3.5 million to help fix Fife's roads and is making good progress in tackling a backlog of repairs.

A local authority has ordered a developer to demolish two tower blocks for multiple breaches of planning rules. The Royal Borough of Greenwich is taking enforcement action against the Comer Homes Group’s Mast Quay Phase II development in Woolich.

North Lanarkshire Council has published plans for the physical regeneration of communities over the next five years.

Proposals for a new housing development on the site of a former Clydebank care home are moving forward after a contractor was appointed. The proposed supported living development aims to provide 19 homes, comprising cottage and tenement flats and terraced bungalows.

Plans by Boris Johnson to build a pool at his home appear to be back on track after the former Prime Minister promised to build a “little newt motel” for great crested newts.

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The UK’s first vertical distillery in Leith has revealed first-look images of the finished interior ahead of opening to the public next month. More than a decade since the ‘pipe dream’ idea was first conceived by wine merchant Ian Stirling and finance director Paddy Fletcher over a

Network Rail has installed the footbridge at Cameron Bridge station as part of the new £116m Levenmouth Rail Link development.

A Barratt Developments Scotland site manager has been named Site Manager of the Year at a prestigious event which shines a light on the very best talent in the industry. Iain MacLaren, site manager at the homebuilder’s Culloden West development near Inverness, beat off stiff competition to sco

A “one nation” approach to training is essential to ensure skills, standards and safety are consistent everywhere across Scotland and the UK, electrical bodies have warned. Localised training has been suggested as a ‘quick fix’ for teaching would-be electricians new skil

Law firm CMS has appointed Fenella Mason as a partner in the firm’s infrastructure, construction and energy (ICE) disputes practice in Edinburgh. Fenella, who joins from Burness Paull where she led the firm’s construction and projects team for 13 years, has more than 30 years of exp

Dundee-based Logie Glazing and Building Services Limited has entered administration and ceased trading, resulting in the redundancy of all 16 employees.

Changeworks has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Built Environment – Smarter Transformation (BE-ST) with the aim of accelerating and improving retrofit in Scotland.