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When completed in March 2019, Mjøsa Tower in the Norwegian town of Brumunddal will be the world’s tallest wooden building. The building will stand over 80 metres tall and its 18 storeys will house offices, a hotel and apartments.

Guests at DoubleTree by Hilton hotels all over the world will be welcomed with a signature cookie this weekend to mark the official opening of the Queensferry Crossing. To celebrate the opening and the launch of the 10th DoubleTree by Hilton hotel in Scotland - located at the Queensferry Crossing -

A group of Russian grandmothers grew so tired of waiting for the local authorities to fix their road that they hired the necessary equipment and did the job themselves. After being told by officials that the pothole-covered road through the village of Svedniy Bugalish in the Urals was "fine", the gr

A new school in Angus is to be installed with a frosted window after a neighbouring naturist won the right to continue “sunbathing in the buff”, according to The Sun. Muirfield Primary School will swap places with its playing fields in an £8.7 million move as part of the Arbroath Schools Projec

It was to prove a bridge too far for engineers 200 years ago but now a little-known Scot’s vision of a Forth crossing is set to become reality. Plans drawn by engineer and surveyor James Anderson in 1818 – which look remarkably similar to the Queensferry Crossing that opens tomorrow – have com

Jim Barrie City Gate Construction put culture at the heart of Paisley’s bid for UK City of Culture 2021 this week by revealing that one of its senior staff is an accomplished artist whose generosity is set to help Paisley’s Accord Hospice.

In a national first, contractors working for Highways England have worked with specialists to adapt technology used for architectural ornamental lighting, such as monuments and halls, for use on motorways and major A roads. The improvement work took place on the M62 near Huddersfield and Halifax (ju

Just one fifth of Scots claim to already live in their dream home as planning applications for home improvements slow to their lowest ebb in five year growth to stand at just 3%, new data has shown. According to Halifax Insurance, since 2012 just over 92,000 planning applications have been submitted

Ex-footballer Gary Neville has abandoned his plan to build an £8 million eco-house likened to the home of the ‘Teletubbies’. Comparisons with the BBC programme were based on the building's unusual semi-submerged design, intended to minimise its impact on the moorland landscape.

An architect from Edinburgh is hoping to be crowned the next winner of Channel 4’s Great British Bake Off. The Scotsman reports that the 29-year-old, known only as Tom, lives in the Capital with his partner David, and often makes shortbread for his relatives and friends.

A remote narrow-gauge railway which became a lifeline when a road was closed last year is being finally extended to Scotland’s highest village. The Scotsman reports that work has started on a new quarter-mile section of the line from Leadhills into Wanlockhead, where it is hoped trains will run fr

New details about the future tallest residential building on Earth have been released, along with an updated rendering showing the super-tall skyscraper towering over New York City. Designed by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, the Central Park Tower is expected to reach 1,550 feet (472 metre

A Soluis Group-led consortium has secured £1 million of funding from Innovate UK to develop an Augmented Worker System (AWE), pioneering the use of virtual and augmented reality for the construction industry. The system will enable the intelligent design, construction, maintenance and whole-life va

Edinburgh Castle will have to bolster its walls and reconsider the way it welcomes visitors in a new fight against global warming and erosion, world experts will hear at a conference next month. Professor Robert Oram, of Stirling University, told The Herald that “capping” walls under siege from

Los Angeles has become the first major city in the world to test a new paint technology that coat roads in order to reflect, rather than absorb, the blistering heat of the Californian summer sun. Normal black asphalt absorbs 80 to 95 percent of sunlight, while the innovative grey "cool pavement" ref