The new home of the Minnesota Vikings American football team, which opened last June and cost more than $1bn of mostly taxpayer money, is beautiful, large, glassy – and deadly to birds. A new report from a trio of conservation groups has found that scores of birds are dying due to collisions with
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A housing developer is giving away one of his properties for free to a needy family in New Zealand's largest city, but they will have to find somewhere to put it. Auckland businessman Dave Rennie has listed the three-bedroom property with a zero-dollar price tag, with the proviso that the buyers mov
Nicola Barclay The number of households that have purchased a new home through the Scottish Government’s Help to Buy shared equity scheme has topped ten thousand, according to latest figures.
A recent survey by home service marketplace Plentific has revealed that almost half (46%) of UK adults admit to having paid a tradesman cash in hand for work, in order to get a cheaper deal. This new data comes following the recent Taylor Review, by Matthew Taylor, in which a reduction of cash in ha
British builders rack up 130 hours per year making tea and other hot drinks with 82% of workers arguing that regular ‘tea breaks’ aids productivity, new research has discovered. A survey of UK workers in the construction industry carried out by household appliances retailer AppliancesDirect.co.u
A highly accessible concept house for people with disability or mobility issues was showcased in 2015. Image credit: Lewis & Hickey Ltd Creating more modified homes which encourage older people to keep mentally and physically fit for longer could help save the NHS and social care system billions
A Dundee graffiti artist has paid tribute to Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, the designer of the £80.1 million V&A Museum of Design on the city’s waterfront. Artist SYKE created the black and white portrait of Kengo Kuma on a wall near Seabraes, less than a mile from the flagship building.
A solution based on fingerprint sweat analysis is pledging to bring new levels of convenience, hygiene and speed to employee drug testing in the construction industry. Unlike traditional urine or saliva-based drug tests which can be invasive, time-consuming and undignified for testers and employees,
A charity that works to build houses for people in developing nations and a robotics construction company have unveiled what is believed to be the first 3D-printed house that is fully up to code and permitted for people to inhabit. New Story and Icon came together to show that it’s feasibly possib
Not having a place to call home is one of the most stressful situations a person can find themselves in, and as ‘stress’ is the theme for this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week (14-20 May) the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) is urging property firms in Scotland to get behind
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Scottish Water is trialling a six-month pilot project in St Andrews to combat fatbergs and reduce the risk of major flooding and pollution. The project aims to substantially reduce the number of blockages in the sewer system caused by fat, oil and grease – referred to as FOG - being incorrectly di
Royal Bank of Scotland has today officially released for sale its former office and data centre site at Dundas Street in the heart of Edinburgh’s New Town. Branded ‘New Town North’, the 5.89 acre plot is the largest site to be sold in the city for more than a decade and is expected
Scape Group chief executive, Mark Robinson, on the Scottish Government’s fresh investment into affordable housing and the barriers needed to overcome for delivery. Scotland is facing a huge shortage of homes for social rent. There are currently over 130,100 households on council waiting lists
Modular construction firm Bauhu has given the traditional ‘granny flat’ a modern 21st century makeover with the introduction of a new range of portable, modular homes that offer comfortable living with a range of thoughtful, useful and user-friendly features. The company said the prefabr


