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Experts from the Welsh School of Architecture have designed and built the UK's first purpose-built, low-cost energy smart house, capable of exporting more energy to the national electricity grid than it uses. The house, designed by Professor Phil Jones and his team based at the Welsh School of Archi

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is calling for expressions of interest to design its new Research Medal, part of the President’s Research Awards Scheme. The new award will sit alongside the other prestigious President’s Medals - Gold, Silver, and Bronze.

Builders have been allegedly caught out working without the right planning permission after residents sent up a spy drone. The Telegraph reports that builders were captured working to modify parts of a previous scheme to develop 143 luxury homes before being granted planning permission.

A Scottish charity is offering the chance for people to live in new build affordable homes in a community forest in Argyll. Kilfinan Community Forest Company (KCFC) is initially offering two homes and two self-build plots in a community-owned forest in Tighnabruaich with the hope of offering more in

Skanska UK has received a funding award worth more than £700,000 to develop the use of robots for on-site and off-site construction. The award came from the UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK, and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), as part of their collaborative R&am

A converted chicken house in Aviemore has fought off competition from 2,519 other sheds to win Shed of the Year. The Inshriach Distillery in the Cairngorms National Park, which creates gin from 100 per cent Scottish juniper, was nominated in and won the pub category of the contest before taking home

The progress of Scotland’s most exciting construction project is to be streamed live over the internet.

For one and a half hours on Monday all 200 of Cemex's UK readymix plants will be shut. The compnay says it is taking the unique step to carry out a 90 minutes 'step-in', where 600 colleagues and 460 independent haulier contractors take part in safety training to encourage them to ‘step-in’ and l

Recreations of Allied and German trench systems from the First World War are to be built this summer in Glasgow’s Pollok Country Park. The £99,600 Digging In project is funded by a Heritage Lottery Fund grant and will be carried out by a partnership involving the University of Glasgow, Stewart's

Australian architectural firm Elenberg Fraser has won planning approval for a 226-metre-high Melbourne skyscraper that will feature a curvaceous form that took inspiration from a music video by American pop star Beyoncé. The new Premiere Tower at 134 Spencer Street will boast a series of curves and

Scotland’s newest millionaire is to celebrate his fortune with a fortnight’s holiday but will carry on working as a roofer when he returns. John Edmond, 32, from Edinburgh, won £1 million in the EuroMillions Mega Friday draw.

A comon pipistrelle bat The Highland Council has lavished £16,000 on a luxury home for bats.

A study looking into the musical tastes and preferences of construction workers has revealed the songs most likely to be played on the building sites of Britain this summer. The study also assessed the impact of music on the productivity of workers during warmer periods.

A dad caused £1,000 worth of damage when he smashed up a wall in his daughter’s house trying to rescue a trapped pigeon. Scot Thomson, 53, hammered through a blocked-up chimney to free the bird which he claimed was a “British citizen” in need of help.

French firm Moreau Kusunoki Architectes has been named as the winner of the Guggenheim Helsinki competition. The winning design was selected from a shortlist of six, which were whittled down from over 1,751 entries spanning 77 countries in the anonymous international design competition.