Scottish Water took to the skies for a dramatic helicopter delivery of a footbridge to the remote Dhu Loch Reservoir on the Isle of Bute. The footbridge is the missing link in an ongoing £250,000 investment project at Dhu Loch Water Treatment Works. It allows workers to access the valve house
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An architect has invented what has been hailed as the world’s most sustainable hydroponic planter.
A detailed replica of Abertay University in Dundee has been created using the best-selling videogame Minecraft to allow potential applicants and members of the public to explore its campus during the coronavirus pandemic.
International consultancy and construction company Mace has obtained the first IMMUNE Building Standard (IMMUNE) certification globally for its headquarters in London.
A Highland councillor has issued a plea to people obsessed with notorious occultist Aleister Crowley not to spoil the restoration of his former house after the project was given the green light. Two applications relating to Boleskine House, overlooking Loch Ness, were yesterday approved by
A pioneering conservation project in Caithness has saved a prehistoric monument from ruin. The ruins of Ousdale Burn Broch, north of Helmsdale, had fallen into further disrepair over the past 130 years.
Filming for David Walliams and Sheridan Smith's new 'Hansel and Gretel' drama was interrupted by noisy builders, forcing some reshoots.
Dundee demolition company Safedem has been awarded the Guinness World Record for the demolition of the tallest building by the controlled use of explosives, at Mina Plaza, Abu Dhabi.
Conservation charity, the National Trust for Scotland has launched one of its more unusual ‘appeals’ as it seeks landowners to donate turf to help reconstruct a traditional turf-walled ‘creel’ house in Glencoe. Creel houses have been completely lost from Scotland’s arch
A full-scale house designed for future life on Mars has received planning permission in Bristol. The house is the outcome of an ongoing public art project, ‘Building a Martian House’.
Comhairle Nan Eilean Siar has lodged plans for a new Bernera Bridge to link the Isle of Lewis and Great Bernera.
Researchers at MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms have created tiny building blocks that exhibit a variety of unique mechanical properties, such as the ability to produce a twisting motion when squeezed. These subunits could potentially be assembled by tiny robots into a nearly limitless variety
A stained glass window artist has made the perfect gift for his beer-loving friend. Australian Reddit user DiscoDogs unveiled the Victoria Bitter stained glass window and has since been inundated with requests to do the same type of work.
A football club has said it is pressing on with plans to install UV-C lighting to combat Covid-19 in spite of concerns about their use.
Skanska UK has taken an important step towards its target to become carbon neutral by 2045 with the introduction of a radically new electric vehicle (EV) company car policy.