Companies Interview: Derek Amidon and GISI, the big firm you’ve never heard of Construction industries the world over are filled with people who love to build things, people who played with dumper trucks and Lego and dreamed of one day constructing a dam…
News Making sense of sustainable plant: Latest 21CC podcast Construction firms looking to cut their operational CO2 emissions shouldn’t wait for widespread plant electrification or the advent of green hydrogen because there are many ways to improve plant productivity…
Projects Amtrak’s biggest-ever upgrade is set to unblock America’s busiest railroad A flagship project of President Joe Biden’s $1.3 trillion bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) is accelerating this summer, a senior project leader tells GCR. Amtrak’s $6bn programme to…
News ‘The industry didn’t fragment itself, we made it like that’ The industry’s chronic problems of poor quality, lack of skills, and stagnant productivity are often blamed on its hyper-fragmented nature, which allows those at the top to pass the cost…
Perspectives Stop giving orders! Project managers should coach on site: industry veteran Dave Stitt FCIOB used to be hard as nails. A civil engineer, he came into the industry as a teenager and rose through the ranks at big UK contractors Taylor…
Companies Cracking America: Raouf Ghali looks back at Hill’s first year with GISI It is a year since Hill International, the US’ largest independent project management company, was merged and delisted, and the results have been pretty much what the company expected when…