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As the recent BBC mini-series on Hinkley Point C nuclear power station demonstrated, mega projects are getting bigger, more complex, expensive, controversial and technically challenging. So, how can project teams best manage technical risk?

The start of works at the £3bn Sofia Wind Farm was not enough to stem a fall in the value of civil engineering projects for the three months to the end of July, latest analysis by Glenigan has found.

Mace and John Sisk & Son have scooped the highest value Lots in Scape's mammoth £14bn national next-generation construction frameworks.

Bam Nuttall has grown its revenue by more than a third in the last year, its Dutch parent company has revealed. The Royal Bam Group’s half-year report showed that its Surrey-based UK civils arm posted income of €633M (£543M) for the first six months of 2021. This is up 39%…

Say it with a whisper, but most contracts don’t make for particularly exciting reading. Crammed full of impenetrable text, and often rivalling War & Peace in length, it is not entirely uncommon for construction contracts to be skimmed, signed and stuffed in a drawer, their mere existence giving parties a…

Administrators for steel specialist Cleveland Bridge are understood to be considering two main bidders for the company.

Scape has fired the starting gun on the procurement of its new £750M regional construction framework.

The stage of Ferrovial’s attempts to sell Amey could enter a new chapter this week after a deadline for bids apparently passed.

Having an enforced stoppage due to the first lockdown gave me the head space to notice things about the business that had become habitual and were just accepted as a cost.  I kept coming back to something which I christened the ‘design gap’; where the client, for whatever reason, tries…