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Port of Aberdeen has announced plans to invest £55 million over the next decade in an effort to become the UK's first net zero port by 2040.

SELECT is preparing to hit the road again with its enormously successful Toolbox Talks – and this year the tour will be a double act after it invited representatives from a fellow trade body to add its voice to the hot topics being discussed. For the first time, members of the Scottish and Nor

Secretary of state for levelling up, housing and communities Michael Gove MP was in Aberdeen yesterday to visit the site of a £20 million Levelling Up grant which will help to provide jobs in the city. The UK Government minister was shown around the site of the new Aberdeen market wh

Work is underway to create four new business units at Wick Business Park, following interest from local firms.

A developer has reduced the height of its proposed co-living tower on Sauchiehall Street in a bid to gain planning permission. Consensus Capital wants to build 73 co-living units between 520 Sauchiehall Street/ 341 Renfrew Street and a neighbouring gap site. An original application, submitted i

East Renfrewshire Council has confirmed plans for more new build council homes across the area for 2023 and beyond. Following the completion of the local authority's largest ever new build development in Barrhead's Balgraystone Road last year, discussions are underway with developers for 105 afforda

People are being asked for their views on how the planning system can support healthy, thriving and connected communities as part of a consultation launched by the Scottish Government.

An event to mark the completion of New Cumnock’s £8.97 million flood protection works was held yesterday, with guests getting the chance to see the culmination of almost two years’ work that will protect residential and commercial properties near the Afton Water and River Nith. Cou

Construction of 125 homes at Phase Two of the Athletes’ Village in Glasgow’s Dalmarnock is to begin later this year after a change to the development agreement. Glasgow City Council yesterday approved a variation in the terms of the development agreement between the council and City Lega

Paragon Bank’s Development Finance division has provided a £15.9 million funding package to PfP igloo and Housing Growth Partnership (HGP) for the development of 78 environmentally friendly townhouses in Glasgow.

An electrical company was wrong to fire an electrician who may have drunk more than three litres of beer in one day because it had not proved that his consumption had left him “inebriated, intoxicated or drunk”, or unable to do his job, a Spanish court has ruled.

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Gibbon Lawson McKee Limited (GLM), the Edinburgh-based architects, building surveyors, project and construction managers, has revealed that Doug Lawson has returned to the firm that he helped found in 1996. This follows 14 years in Australia as both a director for Knight Frank’s Queensland off

Richard Lochhead, minister for small business, innovation and trade, has taken over the role of chair of the Construction Leadership Forum (CLF) in Scotland to lead a refresh of membership at the organisation. Coming as the Forum embarks on co-developing a Transformation Plan to deliver on the

The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) has announced the names of six new Honorary Fellows in recognition of their significant contribution to Scotland’s cultural, academic, business or political life. Many within the 2023 cohort of RIAS Honorary Fellows have been recognised