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A condition to reduce the number of car parking spaces at a housing development on the former Ruchill Hospital site in Glasgow has been agreed by councillors in favour of usable amenity space including a children’s play area, green space and a place for food growing.

The ruins of Rosslyn Castle in Midlothian are set to undergo a major programme or repair and renovation. Built by the St Clair family, the oldest parts of Rosslyn Castle date back to the early 14th century, with the fortress bearing witness to several turbulent periods in Scottish history.

Ground engineering and construction company Akela Group has today outlined its milestone expansion into the English market with a move into new premises in Leeds.

West of Scotland Housing Association (WSHA) has completed its latest social housing development in Barrowfield which finalises the physical regeneration of the area where there has been an investment of £65 million to create 540 new affordable homes since 1996. The latest £10m developmen

Additional projects for more new, affordable homes across North Lanarkshire have been approved and included in the council's next Strategic Housing Investment Plan, which is being submitted to the Scottish Government.

As the return to the office gets underway in earnest, investment into the Scottish commercial property market is seeing a resulting uplift, with Colliers noting that several deals have seen a ‘bidding war’ take place. This year has seen investment volumes in Glasgow reach almost £1

West Scotland MSP Jamie Greene is backing a new campaign aimed at supporting mental health among workers in the construction industry. The charity Band of Builders is encouraging tradespeople, builders’ merchants and others to hold their own so-called Big Brew event to encourage people to disc

Shepherd Chartered Surveyors has been instructed to market a prime site for industrial and distribution to the market for sale.

A violin-shaped church and an Inner Mongolia hotel in the form of a monstrous babushka doll are among the contenders for a competition to celebrate China's unsightly architecture. For the past 11 years, Chinese architecture website archcy.com has been inviting people to vote in the l

The independent inquiry investigating the construction of the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Campus (QEUH) in Glasgow and the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People and Department of Clinical Neurosciences (RHCYP/DCN) in Edinburgh has today began hearing from affected patients and fa

Galliford Try has followed up last year’s pre-exceptional loss of £59.7 million with a pre-tax profit of £11.4m for the financial year ended June 30 2021. The business achieved the result on revenues of £1.125 billion, which represents a divisional operating margin

Kier has announced a return to the black after several years of heavy losses with its continued turnaround strategy. Following losses of £225 million in 2020 and £229m the previous year, the infrastructure and construction group posted pre-tax profits of £5.6 million

An investigation has been launched after a worker was injured on the expansion of Aberdeen Harbour.

Aberdeen-based architectural practice Albyn Architects is celebrating one of its busiest periods to date by moving to larger premises and taking on two additional members of staff in response to an increase in business across all its services. Joining the practice in its move to the new premises in

The £14.5 million redevelopment of Motherwell station entered its third phase last week with a focus on the extension of the forecourt and internal concourse area at the station. ScotRail said the work by Balfour Beatty will see changes to how customers access the station platforms for a short