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Elon Musk’s infrastructure firm The Boring Company has revealed plans to link Chicago’s Downtown area with O'Hare Airport using “autonomous electric skates” travelling up to 150 miles per hour. The company which said it “aims to alleviate soul-destroying traffic by constructing safe, affor

Balfour Beatty has presented an alternative way of delivering highways works which predicts an end to roadworks on motorways. In the latest of its policy papers, Balfour said new technology will evolve the way in which contractors deliver works and dramatically improve customer satisfaction.

A slowdown in development opportunities has contributed to a decrease in turnover and profits at Muir Group. The Fife construction business saw turnover fall back by 12% to £65.4 million for the year to 28 January 2018 compared to the previous year, while pre-tax profits dropped by 17.5% to £3.3m.

Agreements to transition the last of 278 contracts provided by Carillion to new service providers are now in place, signalling the end of the trading phase of the liquidation. An update from the Official Receiver has confirmed that the trading phase of the liquidation has come to a close almost seve

Construction work is underway on the much anticipated £6.1 million Birthplace Project to transform The David Livingstone Centre in Blantyre into a world-class visitor attraction. Clark Contracts has been appointed as the main contractor on the multi-million pound operation to restore and renovate t

GDL Piling goes from strength to strength with completion of rail project GDL Piling Ltd has completed work on a project for Network Rail to provide CFA piles to form the support for a new bridge over the railway at Kerse Road in Stirling.

Families from across the north east are being invited to Aberdeen Science Centre for two days of construction themed activities this week. Budding builders and their families will be able to test their skills in the Construction Simulator, take a lesson at the STEM Wizard School, attempt the Cube Ch

Morgan Sindall’s Special Works team in Inverness has been awarded contracts worth more than £5.8 million by the Highland Council, to expand and refurbish seven early years schools in the area. The Inverness office of the construction and infrastructure company counts the Highland Council as a key

Modern building materials used in energy efficient homes can make mobile phone signals weaker indoors by one million times, new research has found. A study commissioned by the telecoms regulator Comreg has concluded that the increased use of materials such as foil-layered insulation as well as alumi

Barratt Homes sets sights on East Lothian Two new developments, which bring a total of 405 new homes to East Lothian, have now been launched by Barratt Homes.

A specially designed rope bridge slung between trees high over a Highlands road is giving red squirrels a safe crossing. Conservation charity Trees for Life installed the bridge over a road near Shieldaig last summer as part of its project to reintroduce red squirrels to the northwest Highlands.

Plans have been approved for a new £14.5 million shared campus for Hayshead and St Thomas RC primary schools and early years facility in Arbroath. Angus Council’s development standards committee yesterday gave the go-ahead for the demolition of the existing primary school and the subsequent const

Research into planning for different religions, urbanisation in Rwanda and Ethiopia, and Scottish marine planning are among the projects shortlisted in this year’s RTPI Awards for Research Excellence shortlist. Projects on heritage, build-to-rent housing, walkability and improving streets, have al

An investigation is underway after a pane of glass fell ten floors from the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow. It is understood the pane shattered near the front entrance of the building on Thursday morning, but nobody is believed to have been injured.

95 construction contractors and suppliers attended a recent ‘Meet the buyer’ event hosted by ENGIE in Bellshill, prompting the company to commit to another consultation session for the professional services sector off the back of its success. ENGIE’s Places & Communities division works alo