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A prankster has put the Forth Road Bridge up for sale on auction site ebay following Friday’s news that the link between Edinburgh and Fife will be closed for the remainder of the year. The cheeky advert was posted by ebay user nicelgin, who placed the ad in the ‘For parts or not working’ sect
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Following on from a church shaped like a giant version of Cinderella’s fabled glass slipper in Taiwan, which SCN featured on this page earlier in the week, ITV.com as compiled a list of what it calls ‘10 of the world's wackiest buildings’. The list also features the giant basket shaped headqua
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A British designer has developed a concept that will allow people to download plans to print and build their own bespoke earth-friendly house over a few days. The inventor say the plans, named WikiHouse, will herald a digital building revolution, letting anyone design a high-performance, low-cost an
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Chinese construction company HuaShang Tengda has 3D printed a 400-square-meter, two-story house in a mere month and a half. The Beijing-based firm is a major competitor of fellow Chinese construction company WinSun, which we’ve featured previously with its 3D printed six-story apartment building a
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A construction worker in China who exercises on his lunch breaks has become an online celebrity for his efforts, China Daily reports. Shi Shenwei does not take a nap at noon as most construction workers do. The 23-year-old migrant worker from Longjiaoshan village, Dazhi city in Central China's Hubei
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Springfield Properties has reached out in an attempt to offer support to those workers made redundant by the administration of fellow Highlands housebuilder Roy Homes Ltd. The Inverness self-build home business and its sister company Roy Homes Timber Frame Ltd ceased trading this week with the loss
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Edinburgh Printmakers CEO Sarah Price has today shared the organisation's vision of a new creative industries hub as part of an £11 million capital development project at Castle Mill Works in Fountainbridge.
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Plans submitted for long-abandoned East Ayrshire coal mine L-R Cameron Gibson, deputy site manager and Drew Barber, plant mechanic, Banks Mining
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HIE appoints new energy director Audrey Maciver - Credit John Paul/HIE
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An unpaved section of a Montreal street has become the subject of ridicule online, stirring controversy over how the city handles construction projects, CBC News has reported. Demix Construction has been repaving part of René-Lévesque Boulevard in time for the Formula E, an electric-car race that
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Renfrewshire Council has today approved a £45.7 million investment package for Paisley town centre to help the town’s bid to be UK City of Culture 2021. Councillors agreed to set aside funds for major infrastructure projects which support the wider push to transform Paisley's future usin
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Possible evidence of a medieval Norse parliament meeting place may have been found at an archaeological site in the Highlands, the BBC has reported. A geophysical survey of Thing's Va Broch near Thurso has found "faint features" that may relate to activity associated with the meetings.
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An air of confidence in Scotland's electrical sector has led to the fifth year-on-year increase in the number of apprentices attracted to the industry, according to SELECT, the industry's campaigning trade body.
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A new start-up company has produced pioneering flooring with inbuilt sensors that allow retailers to track the movements of their customers. Scanalytics, based in the US city of Milwaukee, has developed paper-thin tiles, similar to a touch-screen, called a Sole-Sensor to track shoppers.
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