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Major capital projects and programmes in Aberdeen are to be reviewed and reprofiled with a risk of being potentially delayed due to external factors in the construction trade’s supply chain, a committee unanimously agreed yesterday. A report is to be brought back to Aberdeen City Council&rsquo

Works to improve roads, pavements, bridges, streetlights, flooding measures, and encouraging more people to walk and cycle around Aberdeen were yesterday unanimously approved at committee. The members of Aberdeen City Council’s city growth and resources committee agreed to the move which inclu

Persimmon Homes West Scotland has been granted planning permission to build 24 homes in north east Glasgow. The application called for the erection of terraced, semi-detached and detached timber frame properties between two and two-and-a-half storeys high on land between Gartloch Road and Findochty

Construction, development and property services company the Wates Group has launched a new brand which it said will signal its commitment to net zero carbon and support those facing fuel poverty from unprecedented rising energy costs. The launch of Wates Retrofit comes two years after Wates Living S

MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant: Drum Real Estate Investment Ltd & Kingswellies Nursery

Springfield Properties has today confirmed a deal to acquire the Scottish housebuilding business of Mactaggart & Mickel Group Ltd. Delivering housing for almost 100 years, family-owned Mactaggart & Mickel’s housebuilding division includes six live development sites and 11 future p

Plans for the world’s first true floating island city could become reality in the Maldives. Architects at Waterstudio, working in cooperation with Netherlands-based Dutch Docklands and the Government of The Maldives, believe they have found a modern, scalable, commercially-viabl

Lighthouse Club CEO Bill Hill has spoken to Scottish Construction Now in light of an article in the Daily Mail that suggested construction workers have gone 'woke' due to a change in their lifestyles far removed from the outdated stereotype. In a poll of 2,000 builders, three-quarters said they regu

Dollar Academy has unveiled plans to build a Futures Institute, which will provide a physical home for its pioneering educational programme and deliver the country’s first Living Building accredited structure. The Futures Institute has been designed by international architecture practice

The Architects Registration Board (ARB) has reached an important milestone in the process that will help UK-registered architects seek registration in the USA and vice versa.

A total of 15 site managers from Barratt Developments Scotland, which includes Barratt and David Wilson Homes, have won a top national award for the quality of the homes they are building – the most ever received by the housebuilder in Scotland. The 15 Pride in the Job Quality Awards from the

Kier has partnered with AFC Energy, a provider of hydrogen power generation technologies, to conduct an eight-week trial of a clean hydrogen power generator unit on a site in the South West.

Dunfermline-based Deanestor has delivered a second hospital fit-out project in the Highlands.

Low carbon asphalt is set to become a feature of UK roads as Tarmac makes the most significant sustainable improvement to its range of asphalt mixtures since the business perfected the method of making road surfaces stick in the early twentieth century.

The City of Edinburgh Council and Edinburgh Leisure have announced that the new Meadowbank Sports Centre will open to the public on Tuesday 19th July 2022.