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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.

An Instagram user has captured a video of lightning striking a construction crane in Washington D.C. The stormy event occurred during close to the Nationals Park baseball stadium, home to the Washington Nationals.

Contractors are being warned that they must pay the appropriate levels of tax for the country they’re working in if they want to avoid huge fines the like of which could be handed out to Lionel Messi. An international contractor management specialist has urged contractors not to follow the Argenti

Richard Brittain Former Ross County captain Richard Brittain has swapped his armband for a career on the construction site.

It's not just the UK's elected officials that apparently need to be rehoused, Queen Elizabeth II may have to move out of Buckingham Palace during much-needed renovations to the residence, which has not been substantially redecorated since she took the throne in 1952, royal officials said Wednesday.

An American electrical engineer has retired to live in a revamped Boeing 727 fuselage. Industrious recycler Bruce Campbell has had his old plane placed in woods near Portland, Oregon, where he lives happily amongst some of the original seating and even the airplane-style toilet. Bruce believes every

Coming to project near you? An American University has revealed a novel way to combat one of the scourges of twenty first century living (and working) by creating a “texting lane” on its stairs. Sick of SMS-induced collisions, Utah Valley University hopes that the texting thoroughfare will provi

Major restoration of the Houses of Parliament without moving MPs and peers out would cost £5.7 billion and take 32 years, according to an independent report. If MP and peers were moved out for six years, the cost would drop to £3.5bn, the BBC has reported.

Construction training provider Able Skills has created a new infographic highlighting how eight of the world’s most amazing structures were built. The piece features ancient structures such as the Greek Parthenon, the Roman Colosseum and Machu Picchu.

A Dutch firm is to use robots to 3D “draw” a steel bridge over the water in the centre of Amsterdam. MX3D aims to 'print' the complicated and 'intricate' structure over one of the city's canals using robots to 'draw' the bridge into being.

Crofters on Great Bernera in the Outer Hebrides are finally set to own their island after being granted £100,000 by the Scottish Land Fund to complete the deal. The deal means that the community buy-out by the Great Bernera Community Development Trust, which was overwhelmingly approved by locals in