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The owners of a modern office block have taken the drastic step of demolition to avoid rising business rates for the building, The Press & Journal has reported. Crews moved in this week to start tearing down the Dyce premises after housebuilder Malcolm Allan failed to find a tenant to cover the

6-7 Blythswood Square A townhouse in the centre of Glasgow’s business district has changed hands in a seven-figure deal after being snapped up by a major speculative development and construction firm.

BRE has launched a ground-breaking office refurbishment project that will provide quantified evidence on the benefits of biophilic design on health, well-being and productivity of office occupants. The Biophilic Office project centres on a 650m2 1980s office building on the BRE campus in Watford, wh

Construction and engineering company BAM Nuttall is rolling out a range of work clothing nationwide, specifically designed for women, following trials on a number of its sites in Scotland, London, Leeds and Newcastle.

The reason why the concrete which held together the grandeur of ancient Rome's magnificent architecture, and allowed it to endure for centuries after the civilisation itself had long since crumbled, has finally been discovered by modern scientists. Hailed as the world’s strongest, the properties o

Global coffee shop giant Starbucks has opened its latest store in a 100-year old traditional Japanese townhouse complete with noren curtains for an entrance. Located in the Japanese city of Kyoto within a two-story building, the unique outlet opened for business on June 30 as the world’s first tra

https://youtu.be/e-DVIQPqS8E A new video has been produced by the people at YouTube's Practical Engineering channel, presented by civil engineer Grady Hillhouse, explains how erosion at the subsurface can lead to sinkholes.

A new mobile app, enabling people across the world to explore one of Europe’s finest chambered tombs, Maeshowe in Orkney, is now available.

Those working in the trades such as plumbing, construction, and electrical installation are the healthiest workers in the UK, according to new research.

The world’s first ‘Smart Street’ officially opens in London today. Bird Street, nestled in the heart of the capital’s West End, has been transformed from a previously underutilised outdoor space located off Oxford Street, to a haven of calm where visitors can relax and enjoy an innovative sh

International construction giant Balfour Beatty has today published its paper predicting that the construction site of 2050 will be human-free with work moved off-site, remote control of machinery and new materials and techniques exploited to improve cost, safety and efficiency.

https://youtu.be/BmzPr106E7U The latest store to be built by Apple has been designed to resemble the global technology giant’s famous MacBook laptop computer.

https://youtu.be/3T0tk4YjB7A A building in the bustling Chinese city of Chongqing has had a two-lane public road on its terrace, complete with trees lining the street and shops.

An excavator operator working in a peat bog in southeast Poland has stumbled on a rusted longsword from the 14th century. The discovery has kicked off an archaeological expedition to the area in the hope of finding more artefacts from the time period.

Work to install one of Scottish Water’s largest solar panel projects to date, at a waste water treatment plant in Montrose, has unearthed a lost piece of military history. Scottish Water Horizons, a wholly owned subsidiary of Scottish Water, which is driving forward the organisation’s green agen