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As if having a train station pass through the sixth to eighth floors of a residential building wasn’t unusual enough, leaders in the Chinese city of Chongqing are planning to add a giant LED screen to the outside.

For the first time, polar ships have moored at a new £40 million wharf at British Antarctic Survey’s (BAS) Rothera Research Station in Antarctica. The RRS James Clark Ross used it to re-supply the station and pick up staff for return to the UK. Construction partners and designers of the

Greggs has submitted a planning application to Glasgow City Council in order to build its first ever Scottish drive-thru restaurant.

A luxury treehouse is to be built in Bannockburn after Stirling Council planners granted conditional approval for the studio lodge as ancillary accommodation for a cottage at Muiralehouse Road.

A construction worker who took home a stray puppy he found on a building site later discovered the animal was actually a fox cub.

Interserve Construction will today complete the new Nightingale Hospital Birmingham supported by 60 Gurkhas who are providing essential labour and distribution delivery, as well as helping to put the beds in place.

An essential shuttle bus service has been provided for the residents of Countesswells following the number 44 Stagecoach route being temporarily stopped due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

A real estate agent is being tormented by an open home sign she accidentally left outside a house before the COVID-19 lockdown.

The Queen has won a planning battle to gain permission for a hydroelectric turbine on her land at Balmoral.

Prince Charles’s plans to create a safe haven for red squirrels at the country estate he helped to save for the nation have been dashed. The Duke of Rothesay wanted to build a visitor attraction in woodland at Dumfries House, near Cumnock.

A new virtual fitness club has been set up by the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) for its members and staff to maintain their fitness, actively improve their mental health and stay connected to others while social distancing. 

A group of armed vigilantes in the US are said to have cut down a tree to use as a roadblock to try to quarantine three construction workers from another state. 

JCB is poised to re-start production at a factory closed as a result of the coronavirus crisis in order to join the national effort to manufacture ventilators, the company announced today.

The Abbey Road crossing has been repainted now that crowds of people aren't lining up to re-create the Beatles' iconic album cover.

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