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Construction firm Morris & Spottiswood has announced its goal to achieve Net Zero by 2045 as the business continues to take steps to make significant sustainable improvements, a key part of which is the delivery of a more sustainable service offering via its housing division.

A Scottish Government Reporter has granted planning permission for a planning application by S1 Developments for a new student residential development at Edinburgh's former Tynecastle High School site.

An open day has been held for a new housing development in Primrose Place, Alloa. The development is a partnership project between Kingdom Housing Association, Clackmannanshire Council, and The Scottish Government and was developed in collaboration with Architecture and Design Scotland (A&D

An iconic castle said to have inspired Walt Disney’s Cinderella Castle is 'pink again' as a major conservation project gets underway.

MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL  Applicant: University Of Edinburgh Estates.

Stimulating leaders within Scotland's construction industry to inspire long-lasting change was a key theme of a Culture Change Roadshow held last month in Edinburgh by the CIOB and Scottish Futures Trust. The event saw CIOB CEO Caroline Gumble and Graham Simpson MSP, among others, discuss criti

Angus-based property developer DJ Laing has started work on a multi-million-pound commercial development on the western gateway to Carnoustie. The Victoria Green project will provide modern business and industrial units on the initial 14-acre site.

UK offsite frame manufacturer Donaldson Timber Systems (DTS) has secured a position on the Off-Site Homes Alliance (OSHA) national construction framework for volumetric (CAT 1) and panelised (CAT 2) Modern Methods of Construction (MMC).

INCH Architecture, working with The Friends of the Pipe Factory CIC, has been successful in gaining Regeneration Capital Grant funding for the redevelopment of The Pipe Factory in Glasgow.

(from right) Cllr Fiona Dugdale, head teacher Gail Preston, head of education Nicola McDowell, Eddie Reid ELC service manager – strategic asset & capital plan management, chair of Wallyford Community Council Alister Hadden, Philip Galbraith and Graeme Lang both Morrison Construction Cabine

Major improvement works are to take place on a road in Stonehouse.

Work to prepare the former Cockenzie Power Station site for regeneration begins today following East Lothian Council’s bid for £11.3 million of the UK Government’s Levelling Up funding has been successful.

Morgan Sindall Construction’s Scotland team has been awarded a contract worth £2.86 million to reconstruct the prominent Poundland building in the heart of Elgin.

The Construction Pipeline Forecast Tool has had its latest six-month data refresh where the value of future planned Scottish public sector construction projects has increased £600 million to £12.2 billion and the number of businesses registered for updates has reached 900.

A UHI Inverness painting and decorating lecturer has won a Mentor of the Year award and donated his £1000 prize money to a cancer charity in memory of a much-missed late colleague. Mark Mitchell has been named Lecturer Mentor of the Year 2022 by professional painting tools manufacturer Purdy.