Airedale General Hospital in West Yorkshire has gone live with a system to help manage its Raac (reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete) monitoring and repairs programme.
The UK’s civil engineering industry is facing a skills shortage that will make the 2007 ‘War for Talent’ look like a water fight.
Aecom has put 306 employees across its UK and Ireland Transportation business at risk of redundancy, with a potential for 138 of them to be let go by July.
The Grenfell disaster exposed serous weaknesses in the regulation of construction products. The government has not done enough to address these long-standing issues.
Work by Autodesk and Deloitte Access Economics has found the UK leads other European countries on construction data but that progress is being hampered by lack of integration and challenges in training those who will increasingly need to use it.
As summer begins to manifest, the large engineering and construction firms and organisations have started adding members to top leadership positions.
There is “no change” in the scale of the Neom gigaproject, but it is a “long-term project that’s modular in design” according to a Saudi Arabia government minister in response to reports of a significant scaling down of its flagship linear city The Line.
Imagine it’s 2045. We’re sitting amidst rising seas and raging storms, armed with precise data on every ton of CO2 emitted — a stark reminder of our focus on trailing indicators like carbon emissions. This daily ritual of quantifying our environmental demise, while informative, hasn’t steered us away from the…
The UK’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and the Measurement Standards Laboratory (MSL) of New Zealand have joined forces to develop optical interferometry-based earthquake sensing tests in the Pacific Ocean.
Government decision making processes can hamper project planning and delivery. Construction leaders feel that too often, ministers ignore the wider benefits of individual projects. So what should the infrastructure sector do to help the government appreciate the benefits it generates?
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