Dale Wherton from Stoke-on-Trent is due to compete against other champions in January.

The 35-year-old will now travel to America to take on other world champion brickies in Las Vegas next year. The post Man sets ...

The extraordinary Hadrian X bricklaying robot rocks up to a building site looking like a regular truck, then extends a 32-m (105-ft) boom arm and starts precisely laying up to 300 large masonry blocks ...

We’ve been following the progress of the Hadrian X bricklaying robot since it first started flexing its giant telescopic arm back in 2015, and have seen the team behind it make a few notable ...

Students at SGS College in Stroud start with the bricklaying basics in Level 1 before moving up to Level 2 A college in Gloucestershire says more people are enrolling to learn a trade in the face of a ...

BBC Three’s Brickies reveals some things that might surprise you about one of the world’s oldest trades. Bricks are all around us, and yet most of us never think about the people who lay them.

Automation is rapidly becoming a normalized part of many people’s daily lives and careers, a trend which has by no means evaded the construction industry. While this increasingly pervasive technology ...

The construction sector builds the homes we live in, the offices we work in, and the schools our children learn in — but in Europe, there’s a chronic shortage of people to do this critical work. Dutch ...

The Hadrian X bricklaying robot has hit a new speed milestone, laying 200 bricks in just one hour. The massive machine is made by a company called Fastbrick Robotics (FBR), which aims to get the ...

A college in Gloucestershire says more people are enrolling to learn a trade in the face of a national bricklaying shortage. The National Housebuilding Council said there were an estimated 42,000 ...