Jacobs has hard baked its sustainability and diversity targets into its financing under the leadership of its new CEO Bob Pragada, who stepped into the role on late January.
The UK Infrastructure Bank intends to commit £12M to support a nature restoration project in the Scottish Highlands and Islands.
This month has seen top firms including Atkins and Aecom expand their net zero and environmental teams, while new chairs have been elected in institutions such as EngineeringUK, The Engineering & Design Institute London (TEDI-London) and the Transport Planning Society.
Use of the term “front end loading” is becoming more common in association with civil engineering projects but does our industry understand what the term means and how it applies to their work?
Improving gender diversity in civil engineering depends on role models and school outreach, Abigail Brierley.
With just six weeks left to enter this year’s British Construction Industry Awards (BCIA), the line-up of judges set to vet the entries to determine the shortlist and interview them face to face has been announced.
The construction industry is under renewed scrutiny, as it is driven towards a more progressive future. Under this scrutiny, the procurement process for construction firms has changed entirely, making it far more difficult for small to medium-sized construction businesses to attract a percentage of the £290bn that the UK spends…
Mace has predicted that the post-pandemic growth the UK construction sector experienced is likely to slow down in 2023 due to turbulent economic conditions.
Nationwide Engineering Research and Development (Nerd) has announced strategic partnerships with Black Swan Graphene and Arup for the development of Concretene, a graphene-enhanced admixture for concrete.
In March many businesses in the civil engineering sector marked International Women’s Day with celebrations of their female staff and their career achievements. International Men’s Day is on 19 November, in case you were wondering.
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