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Construction and engineering contractors have been alerted to a £1.5bn framework for works at the Houses of Parliament.

Following a relentless series of storms and consistent power outages, many might be looking forward to less disruptive weather in the warmer months. But with 2024 predicted to be the hottest year on record, the summer is unlikely to offer respite.

A group of environmental protection charities have released a joint paper calling on the next government to reform the UK’s planning policy to help protect the nation’s wildlife and natural habitats.

Transport for London (TfL) paid for its day-to-day operating costs without extraordinary funding from government in 2023-24 for the first time since the pandemic, but still needs a long-term capital funding settlement for major projects.

As a sector with a global supply chain, construction is amongst the first to feel the effects of geopolitical events.

Balfour Beatty’s Strategic Design Partnership (SDP) with Mott MacDonald, AtkinsRéalis and Jacobs has made significant strides in optimising infrastructure design processes, senior figures from the firms have told NCE.

UK construction is embattled. Growth is eluding us, barricaded behind an obstacle course of ongoing economic challenges, rising global tensions and an imminent General Election.

The decision to approve the redevelopment of Chatham Docks into a mixed-use scheme has been deemed “catastrophic” for UK steel supplies by ArcelorMittal.

May was quite the whirlwind for the big construction and engineering firms. As the UK gets ready for a potential change in governance, companies across the sector have been switching things at the top too.

In the first of our new monthly round-up of partnerships, mergers and acquisitions in the engineering sector, we have news from Mott MacDonald, Stantec, Turner & Townsend and more.