Lisa Davenport

Whatever your politics, there’s no denying Nicola Sturgeon can talk the big talk. Scotland’s First Minister marked her 100th day as with a powerful promise to “haul down the barriers” in male-dominated industries. In a pledge that will find favour with many seeking jobs in the Scottish engineering sector, she also unveiled a campaign aimed […]

For a long time the UK as a whole has lagged behind in a sector where other regions and countries have set out to establish real and lasting change. So stark is the contrast when it comes to sustainable public transport, it’s as though we’ve opted for a fleet of coal-fired rickshaws, while everyone else

The good news continues with growing interest from big business in Scotland’s IT sector. IT systems upgrade specialists Agenor Technology has announced a £1 million investment in new software, aimed at increasing the efficiency of software upgrades for small contractors. This will result in scores of high-value jobs in IT at its offices in Edinburgh

Ask your Great Uncle Shug why we can’t play cricket and he won’t explain the reasons for losing all 11 matches played in three World Cups, surpassing the Netherlands’ record of 10 successive defeats from debut. No, he’ll tell you instead what Scots are really good at: inventing stuff – like the telephone, roads, TV

With the success of Oscar-nominated movies such as The Imitation Game, breaking codes is suddenly quite sexy. Mind you, Aunty B would swear a feature-length film about limpet watching would be sexy – so long as it starred Benedict Cumberbatch. You’d think we’d surely have come on leaps and bounds from the days when Alan

Out of this world: the International Space Station. On March 6 and 7 the doors will be flung open and the public invited in to mingle among and marvel upon hitherto hidden wonders. The bad news first: sadly, this isn’t the opening of Willy Wonka’s first Scottish chocolate factory. Now the good news: the open

Hardhats thrown into the air please, people! This just in from top brass. The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) shows a resurgence of growth in the regions and nations is driving a strong fightback . . . with arrows pointing upwards here, here and here. Better yet, word on their street is this renaissance could

Way back it was Bob the Builder, merrily fixing the world in his blue overalls and yellow hardhat. Most recently, superheroes have saved the world in a Hollywood blockbuster, using nothing more than the building blocks they were standing in. You don’t need to hear a wolf whistle to realise that, right now, the construction

Space and engineering go together like Nutella and porridge ­– an often overlooked, yet in our minds, essential partnership. After all, this marriage has helped shape our understanding of the planets, brought a deeper appreciation of the stars, carried us off into the infinities of solar systems, opened up the portal to celestial bodies in

Everything you ever needed to know about engineering is contained in the following aphorism. To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, it is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be! You see, engineers are not here to save the world with existential