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The City of Edinburgh Council is to offer free electric cargo bikes to help city businesses during tram construction works. At least four bikes will be available in partnership with walking and cycling charity Sustrans, while more could be brought in to meet demand.

A nine-storey office development made from reclaimed shipping containers has received planning permission in East London.

Fire safety is to be strengthened in new high rise buildings and facilities for people with disabilities improved in larger new buildings.

A piece of street art in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg featuring a large cross has become the talk of town after it was partially covered with asphalt just a few days after it was completed.

Seesaws have been installed in between the metal slats of the US-Mexico border wall so that children on either side can play together. Designed by architectural studio Rael San Fratello, the three pink seesaws straddle the wall between El Paso in Texas and Ciudad Juárez in Mexico.

Balfour Beatty has saved more than one million plastic bags from landfill by utilising waste plastic asphalt on a cycle lane in a UK first.

A collection of Los Angeles celebrities have been drafted in to make public announcements in the city’s airport to take the edge off the facility’s construction woes.

Scotland’s timber industry can help tackle the UK’s housing crisis and the global climate emergency, a Westminster inquiry has heard.

Representatives from Scottish local authorities and housing associations are joining construction contractors at a conference tomorrow to discuss key topics relating to affordable housing following the launch of Scotland Excel’s £1.5 billion New Build Residential Construction framework l

Stephen Good, chief executive of the Construction Scotland Innovation Centre, continues a series of blogs following the Scotland Excel ‘Accelerating the delivery of affordable new homes’ conference yesterday.

The next significant building phase at Glasgow’s Buchanan Wharf starts this week with ground-breaking for Legal & General’s 324-home build to rent (BTR) scheme.  Drum Property Group, developers of Buchanan Wharf, agreed a deal with Legal & General earlier this year for the f

Former football Peter Lovenkrands has successfully prevented the development of a new home next to his mansion.

Malcolm Hughes has been instructed to carry out a detailed ground-penetrating radar survey of Inverness Castle to detect rabbit burrows.

Annette Keay from Cumbernauld-based construction business Indeglas outlines why the firm has signed up to the Disability Confident scheme. When we heard about the Disability Confident scheme, it just made sense to sign up. As a place to work, Indeglas has always focused on creating an inclusive envi

A glass barrier is likely to be built around St Mark’s basilica in Venice to protect its priceless marble panels and gold leaf mosaics from frequent and devastating floods.