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An ambitious new plan is aiming to support the delivery of over total of 2,600 new social housing in West Lothian by 2029.

Taylor Wimpey West Scotland’s staff charities committee has donated £1,000 to Early Years Scotland to support a variety of projects the charity runs from the Tannahill Centre in Paisley. Early Years Scotland is the country’s leading national specialist organisation that supports Sc

A lord ordinary has found that an electrical contractor could not be held liable for injuries suffered by a solar panel engineer it subcontracted to perform work for it when he fell on a wet metal roof during a solar panel installation.

The Scottish Government’s flagship home energy scheme to help homeowners install heat pumps is “hardly helping” people shift towards green energy, ministers have been warned.

CBRE’s Scottish headquarters has been awarded WELL Certification at Platinum Level, recognising the global real estate advisor’s commitment to promoting employee wellbeing.

An appeal by Scottish Power against a decision to award damages to the widow and other family of a former employee who died of mesothelioma in 2018 has been refused by the Inner House of the Court of Session.

A £5 million community-led project to create a new distillery in an area regarded as a birthplace of Scotland’s national drink has secured up to £0.5m investment from Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE).

The crucial next step in Falkirk Council’s journey to deliver economic growth through its transformative £140 million Falkirk Growth Deal could be taken at a meeting of the Executive next week.

The civil engineers behind some of London’s most iconic infrastructure projects have put on their dancing shoes, to show the public – young people in particular - how happy they are to be engineers and the diverse and exciting careers on offer through choosing maths and physics at school. They a

A lawsuit has been filed against the city of Chicago and the Chicago Park District in an attempt to block the proposed George Lucas Museum from building along the city’s lakefront. The museum has strong supporters, including Mayor Rahm Emanuel. But advocate group Friends of the Parks oppose the pl

A footbridge installed as part of a £3.8 million upgrade at Perth railway station has been nominated for a Carbuncle Award. The structure is in the running for the Pock Mark category, which recognises the worst planning decision.

A French company has been developing aesthetically pleasing, tree-shaped turbines meant to run silently within cities, at ground level. The Wind Tree is being developed by NewWind and has 72 artificial leaves. Each one is a vertical axis turbine, vaguely conical in shape. Because each one has little

A shopping mall in Toronto has sought to “clear up some confusion” about whether construction workers are allowed inside the mall following a backlash on social media. Construction workers had been ordered to stay away from the Yorkdale mall while they work on the mall's $331-million expansion a

A team of Dutch companies has unveiled a proposal for a huge circular wind turbine that doubles as an apartment block and hotel, and also includes a rollercoaster. Billed as "the most innovative windmill in the world", the Dutch Windwheel is intended as a landmark attraction for Rotterdam's watersid

An architecture firm has unveiled a new bar in London's Borough Market which gets you drunk without drinking. Named Alcoholic Architecture, the bar from Bompas & Parr is defined by its signature cocktail: an aerosolized cloud of alcohol that patrons start breathing as soon as they walk through t