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The Dutch government has invested €200 million into quickly building more than 2,000 prefabricated, flexible homes but it can't find anywhere to place them. The temporary homes are ready, but agreements with municipalities and housing corporations are taking longer than expected, Financiee

A couple have been ordered to demolish their £80,000 extension and handed £200,000 in legal bills after being found to have built just over two inches too close to their neighbours’ house. Shabaz Ashraf, 45, and his wife Shakira, 40, were told by a judge to tear apart the

The German city of Freiburg has built the first cycle path with a photovoltaic roof in Europe. Constructed in cooperation with badenova and the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE), the 300-metre cycle path at the Freiburg Exhibition Centre is covered by 900 solar modul

A voluptuous mermaid sculpture installed in the small fishing town of Monopoli in Italy’s Puglia region has been making waves for being “too provocative”. The artwork sits in the Piazza Rita Levi-Montalcini - a Square named after the 1986 Nobel prize-winning Italian scientist

Twenty-six years since the doors slammed shut on one of Australia’s most notorious prisons, the shackles of the past have been thrown off and HM Prison Pentridge has reopened as a billion-dollar dining and entertainment precinct just 8km from the Melbourne CBD. The redevelopment of the 170-yea

Barratt Developments Scotland is putting nature centre stage to inspire homeowners to create their own nature-friendly gardens. The homebuilder, which includes Barratt and David Wilson Homes, has transformed a show home garden into a festival for wildlife, highlighting playful features that help an

An electrical company was wrong to fire an electrician who may have drunk more than three litres of beer in one day because it had not proved that his consumption had left him “inebriated, intoxicated or drunk”, or unable to do his job, a Spanish court has ruled.

Construction workers made a toddler’s day by including him in their work.

Contractors at a utility company earned an F grade after painting the word "shcool" outside of a school building. The word was painted outside Llangyfelach Primary School in Swansea after gas works by Wales and West Utilities, the BBC reports.

The first UK trials of a robot site printer that can draw out floor plans is now underway.

A town has announced an unusual plan to reduce crime by planting 1,200 trees. Local officials in Alief, a suburb of Houston, Texas, will spend $2 million (around £1.6 million) to plant the trees along 17 miles of road by 2025.

A specialist engineering contractor is to utilise an innovative approach which allows the deconstruction and de-fabrication of the existing structural steelwork from a 1980s building, allowing it to be recertified, refabricated and reused in a new proposed structure.

Historic Environment Scotland (HES) is asking members of the public to share their views and knowledge on Livingston Skatepark.

A Chinese couple staying at a Seoul Airbnb incurred over $1,570 (£1,262) in expenses, including a $116 (£93) water and electricity bill and a $730 (£587) gas bill, after leaving the heating on and taps running for 25 days in retaliation for the host's refusal to cancel their bookin

A construction worker from Maryland has won the top prize of $100,000 in a crossword scratch-off game.