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Interserve Construction has deployed new social distancing technology at the NEC Birmingham as it continues to roll out the final phase of the development of the new NHS Nightingale Hospital Birmingham providing critical care beds to treat COVID-19 patients.

Sectors such as construction, retail and manufacturing will be given "particular consideration" when the Scottish Government begins to decide how to ease the restrictions of the coronavirus lockdown, the First Minister said today.

The Lightweight Manufacturing Centre (LMC), part of the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS), operated by the University of Strathclyde, is working with a consortium on an Innovate UK-funded project to develop an ultralight and sustainable wind turbine blade that will produce up to 9% mo

A Bristol builder is the talk of the construction site after scooping a £14,000 Rolex watch through lifestyle competition BOTB.

Independent consulting engineer Dougall Baillie Associates (DBA) has become an early adopter of an extremely efficient and environmentally sound process for creating a safe and secure workplace as its staff begin the post-COVID return to work.

The British Council for Offices (BCO) has today launched a competition for its ‘NextGen’ members, who will be asked to design an office fit for 2025. Entrants will be asked to consider key global issues, from the pandemic, tackling the impending climate crisis, to ongoing issues around e

With the effects of COVID-19 beginning to impact businesses across Scotland, the Construction Industry Coronavirus Forum (CICV Forum) is hosting two new webinars to advise and answer questions on redundancy, restructuring and other urgent employment issues.

A UK advanced drone system has won new government funding to protect workers in the construction industry during the coronavirus pandemic and beyond.

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.