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The world’s first mixed-use net zero carbon development in a key quarter of Birmingham city centre has been unveiled by Woodbourne Group.

A leading female engineer has called for an end to the longstanding practice on Chinese construction sites of banning women from entering tunnels because it is believed they bring bad luck and trigger their collapse.

BT has revealed that almost 4,000 of its iconic red phone boxes across the UK are up for grabs as it urges local communities to take advantage of a scheme to help transform them for the 21st Century. Since 2008, over 6,600 phone boxes have been taken on by communities for just £1 each through

Tarmac has become the first major cement manufacturer in the UK to move to 50% recycled plastic in its packaging with the roll out of new all-weather, fully recyclable hybrid bags.

A ground-breaking project to store renewable energy using gravity is taking shape in Edinburgh.

A social housing development in Eindhoven has integrated a vertical forest. The first 'vertical forest' in the Netherlands will be integrated into one of two new smart buildings to be built in the city of Eindhoven.

A barn with roots going back to Tudor times is going up for sale with the unique condition that the building has already been dismantled and needs reassembling. St John’s Barn in Suffolk is being sold by Summers Place Auctions this year and is expected to fetch a six-figure sum. The

Up to 2,000 construction workers building a planned 535-acre theme park in Kent could be asked to live on cruise ships on the Thames.

An airport which splashed nearly £2.5 million on a runway extension can't use it because it's in a blind spot for the airport's control tower. Victoria International Airport in British Columbia, Canada completed the works in fall 2019 at a cost of $4.3 million CAD (around £2.5m).

A mysterious artwork painted on the brickwork of the former Reading Prison is speculated to be a Banksy piece depicting its most famous inmate, Oscar Wilde. The mural shows a prisoner rappelling down one of the prison's exterior walls using paper from a typewriter as a rope.

Heriot-Watt University has joined forces with Brewster Bros to create new materials from the residual waste left over during the recycling process.   Recycled clay can account for up to 25% of the output produced when excavation waste is recycled via a washing process. This by-product comm

Researchers in the north of Scotland and Wales are trialling a new method of measuring tidal currents which could revolutionise the marine renewables industry.

Excess heat recovered from the sewage treatment process could be used to power more than 2,000 homes thanks to a new carbon-cutting partnership between Thames Water and Kingston Council.

A Victorian villa on the NC500 route in the Highlands once owned by Scottish singer Gerry Rafferty is non the market.

The Nelson Mandela Scottish Memorial Foundation has applied to get planning permission for a statue in central Glasgow renewed.