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Financial services firm Aviva has unveiled a groundbreaking solar energy station in the car park at its Perth office, but plans to accompany it with a £3 million wind turbine have been knocked back by Scottish Ministers.

Researchers at MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms have created tiny building blocks that exhibit a variety of unique mechanical properties, such as the ability to produce a twisting motion when squeezed. These subunits could potentially be assembled by tiny robots into a nearly limitless variety

The installations of seesaws between the metal slats of the US-Mexico border wall that enabled children on either side to play together has won the 2020 Beazley Design of the Year award, run by London's Design Museum. Designed by architectural studio Rael San Fratello, the three pink seesaws straddl

One of Shetland’s most distinctive and historic built heritage features – the 200-year-old Copeland Lodberry in Lerwick – is to be renovated and transformed by local engineering company Ocean Kinetics.

The Scottish Government is to help fund safety improvements and repair works at up to 20 ports and harbours that have lost income from landing fees due to the disruption caused by Brexit thanks to a £1.8 million fund. The support includes £180,000 to install shore power for the

Tarmac has become the first major cement manufacturer in the UK to move to 50% recycled plastic in its packaging with the roll out of new all-weather, fully recyclable hybrid bags.

SSE Renewables is holding an online event to meet businesses and highlight future supply chain opportunities for the proposed multi-billion-pound developments Berwick Bank Wind Farm and Marr Bank Wind Farm.

Skanska is to use a hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) fuel to power all site plant and equipment as part of its pledge to become net-zero carbon by 2045.

Andrew Tolmie and Stefanie Johnston outline the current legal landscape in Scotland regarding who pays the remedial works necessary to bring residential buildings into line with new fire safety standards. On 14th June 2017, a fire broke out in the 24-storey Grenfell Tower block in west London, causi

The construction sector should prepare for the possibility of sustained price pressures, according to Turner & Townsend’s latest UK Market Intelligence Report.

A Scottish civil engineer has made it through to the final of an international competition, which challenges contestants to explain an aspect of civil engineering in just 200 seconds. Lauryn Steel, a principal technician with Dumfries and Galloway Council’s Engineering Design Service, produced

The managing director of Scotland’s largest construction trade association SELECT took to the airwaves last week to tell thousands of tradespeople across the UK that retentions “disproportionately penalise small businesses” in the construction industry. 

The role of fungi in helping to prevent landslips is being investigated in research led at the University of Strathclyde and partnered by engineering company BAM Ritchies.

Scientists at the University of Manchester have developed 'cosmic concrete' from space dust and astronaut blood in order to make construction in space easier.

A bio-energy company whose appeal against the refusal of an application for planning permission for an energy-from-waste installation was refused by the Scottish Ministers has failed to appeal that decision in the Inner House of the Court of Session. North Lanarkshire Biopower Ltd had proposed a dev