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Positive feedback from a three-month trial has led Osborne to extend the use of protective site clothing that features solar-charged lights.

A woman who angered her neighbours by decorating her multimillion-pound townhouse with red and white stripes can ignore a planning order to repaint the property, the High Court has ruled. The Guardian reports that Zipporah Lisle-Mainwaring, a property developer, painted candy stripes on the three-st

In a first for a construction firm, a rescue mission was launched by Glasgow-based City Building and Scottish Natural Heritage to save endangered water voles living beneath a working site in Easterhouse, Glasgow. After repair and upgrading work began on local housing association properties in Coxton

A group of construction workers have accidentally made the “sensational discovery” of the oldest aqueduct to be built in the city of Rome, The Metro has reported. In the city’s heyday, a network of aqueducts supplied clean water and took it away in sewers, a pioneering approach to hygiene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqsi8Z2cc8c YouTube funny-men TGFbro turned their hands to construction when they decided to build a house from jelly bricks.

The Queen’s official sculptor in Scotland wants to complete one of the nation’s most famously incomplete works of architecture, according to The Herald. The National Monument on Calton Hill, in Edinburgh, has remained incomplete since work stopped on it in 1829.

The remains of five Archbishops of Canterbury have been found beneath a medieval parish church next to Lambeth Palace, the Archbishop of Canterbury's official London residence. Builders renovating the Garden Museum, housed at the deconsecrated church of St Mary-at-Lambeth, found a hidden crypt conta

Beach huts on the Moray Firth with dimensions smaller than a prison cell are currently selling for £25,000, it has emerged. The exclusive new-build development at Findhorn of just 30 timber huts have no windows, running water or electricity and measure just 2 metres by 2.5 metres.

An undulating path covered in a layer of fake snow for sledding will curve around the roof garden of a Beijing shopping centre under new plans unveiled by American architect Andrew Bromberg. Deezen reports that Hong Kong-based Bromberg of architectural firm Aedas, designed the Phase 3C building for

Around 84% of homeowners are more likely to hire a tradesman if they are punctual, a new survey has revealed. A poll by home services marketplace Plentific.com found that punctuality is the most desirable quality homeowners look for when hiring tradesmen, narrowly ahead of politeness and someone who

A housing developer is giving away one of his properties for free to a needy family in New Zealand's largest city, but they will have to find somewhere to put it. Auckland businessman Dave Rennie has listed the three-bedroom property with a zero-dollar price tag, with the proviso that the buyers mov

https://www.facebook.com/onthetools/videos/1904313539854523/ A builder was left red-faced after he plunged into a puddle while simulating the Grand National in a construction site race.

Network Rail is progressing plans to take visitors onto the Forth Bridge for the first time, focusing on delivery of a bridge climb experience in South Queensferry.

A robot has demolished parts of a site associated with the first reactor to achieve criticality in Scotland almost 60 years ago. The final internal structure has been dismantled within the Dounreay Materials Test Reactor (DMTR) support building complex which now allows the building to be demolished.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BvCxmT7aAM A hitherto anonymous region near China’s smog-choked capital has been overrun by house buyers after Beijing unveiled “historic” plans to build a new city there in a bid to slash pollution and congestion, The Guardian has reported.