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A construction worker had his hand mauled while working at a big cat sanctuary in Florida, losing a thumb in the encounter. According to a Florida Fish and Wildlife spokesperson, construction work was being done on the site and one of the workers stuck his hand into a cage containing a tiger when th

The Federation of Master Builders (FMB) has leapt to the defence of The Great British Bake Off contestant Richard Burr after rumours were circulated that he is not a real builder. Earlier this week, the Daily Mail described Burr’s job as closer to that of “an investment banker than a jobbing bri

A bomb disposal team was scrambled yesterday after historical military explosives were found in a skip near an Ayrshire industrial estate. Officers trained to deal with exploded ordnance rushed to the Loreny Industrial estate in Kilmarnock following the unexplained find.

A 630ft crane which collapsed in Aberdeenshire six months ago has been recovered. A team of 40 engineers began disassembling the vehicle at Dales Park Industrial Estate in Peterhead on Monday.

A surreal new artwork makes it look as though a 40-foot building in London’s historic Covent Garden Market is floating away. The mind-bending installation by British artist Alex Chinneck uses digital carving and a four-tonne counterweight to make the amazing structure.

Planners have blamed UK Communities Secretary Eric Pickles for making them powerless to prevent a row between two homeowners over a “monstrosity” of an extension. Two homes in the Moseley area of Birmingham which now share a gutter because one neighbour extended several inches beyond that for wh

Architects have designed a hospital in the shape of a ship to be built in a new city planned for Tunisia. The White Sails Hospital and Spa has been earmarked to be one of the first buildings built for the Tunisia Economic City (TEC).

From April 2012 to September 2014, the next generation of stadium design rose in Santa Clara, California and became the new home of the San Francisco 49ers NFL team. EarthCam was selected to document and promote the construction progress with 3 megapixel construction cameras and one live streaming H

A 22-year-old man has been arrested after a three-hour pursuit of a 44-tonne digger. Leicestershire Police said the man called them in the early hours of the morning to say he had stolen the bulldozer.

Miller Homes is launching a photography competition encouraging people to submit a photo they have taken which encapsulates all that is great about the area in which they live. Highlighting the importance of location, the ‘Great locations photography competition’ will also ask entrants to provid

A US property development firm is using drones to share more and encourage their investors to take an active interest in the process of development. From using aerial photographs of progress to rides over sites, construction updates from developers can reach their investors around the world in a mat

An eco-house builder in New Zealand had an entire wall stolen from a partly-built new home in a suspected case of industrial espionage. Burglars forced entry into the True Green Homes property outside Christchurch overnight and sliced precise cuts into the walls.

The civil engineers behind some of London’s most iconic infrastructure projects have put on their dancing shoes, to show the public – young people in particular - how happy they are to be engineers and the diverse and exciting careers on offer through choosing maths and physics at school. They a

Paris officials have put up plastic panels on an iconic pedestrian bridge spanning the Seine river in front of the Louvre in an attempt to stop lovers sealing their passion with padlocks attached to the bridge.

A housebuilder has been fined for breaking rules on hours of working after residents complained of builders using a wacker at 2am. Bradford and Keighley Magistrates' Court heard that neighbours of a Harron Homes residential development on Crack Lane were woken up by the sound of workmen entering the