6 Nov: Aggregate Industries is spending £425,000 relocating reptiles from its Isle of Grain terminal site in Kent.

10 Oct: Heathrow Airport and some of the UK’s top house-builders are said to be considering using a mushroom-based material as building insulation.

12 Jun: Domino's Pizza is teaming up with selected US cities to fix potholes so that pizzas arrive in one piece.

24 May: A little piece of history was exposed by Network Rail last weekend when engineers allowed filming access to an underground site hut used by track workers in olden times.

3 May: With an eye to the future, Morrison Construction has invested in a virtual reality system for site safety inductions.

1 Mar: At the age of 50, former jockey Michael Schofield might be one of the older apprentices in the construction industry.

6 Oct 17: A Muslim woman working on London’s Thames Tideway ‘super sewer’ has helped design work clothing suitable for women on construction sites who wear a hijab and burka.

27 Jun 17: A new road in Hungary will 'sing' a rock melody when people drive along it at the right speed.

10 Feb 17: An independent audit of the social media reach of Britain’s top construction contractors has put Balfour Beatty at the head of the pile.

22 Nov 16: Researchers at North Carolina State University in the USA are developing a method for using insect cyborgs – also known as biobots – to map large, unfamiliar areas such as collapsed buildings after a disaster.

25 Oct: Contractors on the A14 upgrade project have uncovered the bones of prehistoric animals while dredging for gravel.

15 Jun: A US company that developed LED lights that attach to training shoes for night-time joggers has now developed an industrial version for nightshift construction workers.

30 May: Taylor Wimpey has produced a children’s book to tell children about the house-building process.

9 May: The risks posed by reckless and selfish motorists to those who maintain the road network are highlighted in a couple of videos released by Highways England as part of a safety campaign.

6 Mar: Images of construction and construction machinery figure prominently at this year’s Royal Society of British Artists exhibition in London later this month.

20 Dec 17: A new Canadian board game, Construction & Corruption, sees bribery and doing as little work as possible as the main factors in successful contracting.

12 Jul 17: Construction workers with a Croydon civil engineering contractor now have a QR code printed on their hard hats that contains their qualifications and credentials.

12 Apr 17: Routine urban highway maintenance and street cleaning could soon be carried out by robot vehicles, if an industry-led development project is successful

15 Dec 16: A gang of railway workers has recorded a truly awful version of Away in a Manger in a bid for musical fame.

8 Nov 16: Developer Larkfleet Group has applied for planning permission to build a prototype house that can be jacked up on stilts in the event of a flood warning.