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England rugby star Ellis Genge has set his sights on a new challenge beyond the playing field by enrolling in the ‘Construction Project Management’ course with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). The Leicester Tigers title-winning captain is preparing for life after prof

A town in Italy that hastily repaved its streets for the arrival of the president was forced to employ the use of metal detectors the next day to locate all the covered-up manholes. Agrigento, the Italian Capital of Culture for 2025, splashed €510,000 in just a few hours to look its best ahead

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), in collaboration with global construction consultancies WSP, Gleeds, and the Project Data Analytics Task Force, has successfully completed a groundbreaking educational programme that introduces primary school students to careers in quantity survey

An archaeological dig at Carlisle Cricket Club is revealing the 'incredible' status of the site during the Roman era. Uncovering Roman Carlisle opened up the dig site on February 15 for its spring mini dig, since then, they've been digging up artefacts that tell us more about the site of the Roman b

From a young labourer starting his journey to an award-winning joiner, three generations of the same family proudly contribute to the success of Persimmon West Scotland. Three generations of the same family are making their mark at the housebuilder, showcasing the vital role of skilled trades across

Mexico will sue Google if it continues to label the entire Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America", the country's president has warned. One of Donald Trump's first acts on his return to the White House was to sign an executive order purporting to rename the body of water.

A construction worker has won a supercar worth £164,000 in a competition which cost him just 29p to enter. Ciprian Cocoveica, from Basildon, won a Lamborghini Huracan in BOTB’s Supercar Competition.

A great-grandfather from Tulsa, Oklahoma, who has been collecting bricks for the last 40 years of his life was surprised to learn he has the largest collection of bricks in the world.

A sprawling 'garden city' development totalling 15,000 homes in Kent has been brought to a halt due to a small colony of endangered spiders.

After a decade-long battle with local officials, a Welsh computer engineer is considering buying an entire landfill site to search for a hard drive containing an estimated £620 million in lost Bitcoin. James Howells, 39, says his ex-partner mistakenly discarded the drive, containing his Bitcoi

A discovery underneath the basement of an office block has been described as one of the most important pieces of Roman history unearthed in the city of London. Archaeologists have found a substantial piece of the ancient city's first basilica - a 2,000-year-old public building where major political,

A couple who bought a £32.5 million mansion can hand it back and have most of their money returned after they found out it had a "severe moth infestation", a High Court judge has ruled. Iya Patarkatsishvili and Yevhen Hunyak successfully sued William Woodward-Fisher, the vendor of their proper

The first winner of the prestigious Stirling Prize for Britain’s best new building now looks set to be demolished. When judges awarded Salford’s Centenary Building the inaugural award from the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1996, they declared it “a dynamic, modern and so

A tour at the Science Museum in London has claimed Lego bricks can be anti-LGBTQ+ by promoting heteronormative relationships.

A famous leaning minaret in the Iraqi city of Mosul has been reconstructed brick by brick, reversing its destruction by Islamic State in 2017. For the first time in its history, UNESCO not only co-ordinated but directly led the reconstruction of heritage sites destroyed by war through its "Reviving