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China has unveiled the longest sea-crossing bridge in the world. Dubbed the 'umbilical cord', the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge stretches 34 miles (55 kilometres) across the Pearl River Delta. The bridge is the fifth longest in the world and is 20 times longer than

Workers renovating a building in Georgia made an unusual discovery when nearly 1,000 human teeth were found behind the walls of a building being renovated in downtown Valdosta. The building housed dentist offices for more than 100 years but it is unclear how or why the teeth ended up in the walls.

A Scottish company specialising in creating spaces that help people work more productively is launching a competition to win a stress-free residency in its Glasgow office. Alpha Scotland, which opened a new state-of-the-art office overlooking the River Clyde earlier this year, is offering

With the need for more new homes to address the country’s housing crisis top of the political agenda, ensuring high levels of quality and customer satisfaction is a matter of equal importance, according to Homes for Scotland (HFS). The message will be delivered to the audience of 150 senior in

The team behind a new £20 million multi-use development at Dundee Waterfront have released new images of the project. The drawings show how the retail units, cafe, offices and apartments at Studio Dundee will look when completed.

InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has announced the grand opening of InterContinental Shanghai Wonderland, claiming to be the world’s first underground hotel.

The Trump Organisation’s plans to build 500 new homes as part of a £150 million second phase of development at its golf resort in Aberdeenshire have been described as a "weak substitute" for the original proposals put forward 10 years ago. Plans were lodged with Aberdeenshire Council for

A modest Glasgow flat struggled to find a buyer after property website Rightmove accidentally listed it with a price tag of nearly £8 million.

EDF Renewables UK has received consent from the Scottish Government for an improved design for the Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind farm. The updated consent will allow the wind farm to be constructed using fewer, but higher capacity, turbines which will generate the same 450MW output of re

The Glasgow Institute of Architects (GIA) has announced the winner of a design contest inviting architects to submit ideas which imagine how Glasgow will look in 150 years’ time. In honour of the 150th anniversary of its founding, the GIA asked participants to submit a single image portraying

Sound alerts for evacuation in high rise buildings and extending the mandatory installation of sprinklers in new flats are among a raft of new safety measures to be introduced next year in Scotland in response to the Grenfell Tower tragedy. The new building standards legislation will also reduce the

Amendments to a business rates policy and support for renewable energy are at the forefront of Scottish Property Federation (SPF) and Scottish Renewables calls ahead of tomorrow’s Scottish Budget. The SPF has set out the key policy areas it wishes to be addressed in a letter to finance secreta

Hadden Group has been re-appointment on the Perth and Kinross Council Minor Works Framework for the next four years. The framework covers the whole range of public buildings including schools, residential and day-care homes, libraries, museums, community centres and offices.

Sniffer dogs are being used to help find leaking water mains for the first time in Scotland and have scored a big success with two discoveries in the past few days. Scottish Water is deploying a team of specially trained dogs to help locate leaks in pipes in rural areas where the water does not alwa

Former Kier executive board member Nigel Brook has joined Robertson Construction to expand its southern operations. Mr Brook, who will take up his new position this month, left Kier as part of a management reshuffle in August.