British Antarctic Survey (BAS) workers have arrived at Rothera, the UK’s largest research station on the continent, ready to remove the accumulated snow and begin the summer construction season. Those…

A UK design engineer has won an international competition organised by the Norman Foster Foundation to create a masterplan for the reconstruction of the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. It’s estimated…

UK construction tech startup Automated Architecture (AUAR) is shipping two of its robotic “pop-up micro-factories” to the US in its first foray into automated housebuilding in North America. Packed into…

A team formed of contractor BAM and technical adviser Ramboll has resurfaced the runway at the British Antarctic Survey’s Rothera Research Station, enabling planes to land at there for the…

The UK construction market is set to reach £476.6bn by 2027. Unquestionably, the industry is undergoing a lot of transformation, shaped by technological advancements, socio-economic and political factors, environmental concerns,…

Texan solar energy company Recurrent Energy has secured €1.3bn in finance for a programme of solar and battery schemes in Europe. The company, a subsidiary of Ontario-based Canadian Solar, signed…

Canada consulting engineer Stantec has acquired UK rival Hydrock for an undisclosed sum. The deal will boost Stantec’s UK workforce by over 30% and increase its capacity in the building…

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…

People in the UK have an overwhelmingly negative perception of new-build houses, a report from the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) reveals. In December, it published results from a survey…

London-based nuclear power start-up Newcleo is in talks with investors to raise up to €1bn to develop its generation IV small modular reactor powered by nuclear waste.  It would use…

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…

Export credit agencies from the UK, Italy, Poland, and Austria have joined Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) to secure €1.247bn to build a high-speed railway in Turkey. Turkey’s Ministry of…

Omar Alhuraibi is an engineer with some 20 years experience as a construction project manager in the UAE. He was born in Yemen, a country ravaged by civil war since…

Swiss manufacturer ABB has teamed up with a UK startup developing a system for generating electricity in old mine shafts. Called GraviStore, the system drops heavy weights attached to cables…

Four big companies in the UK construction sector have joined forces to promote UK professional services for the reconstruction of Ukraine. Law firm Pinsent Masons, Mace, Costain, and Montreal-headquartered AtkinsRéalis…

Britain’s builders are being offered a £6,000 sweetener to lure them to sunny Western Australia. The Australian state is experiencing a construction boom on the back of multi-million-pound government investment…

The UK government has secured £226m to build new drainage and water treatment systems for the Iraqi city of Hillah south of Baghdad. Under the deal arranged by the government’s…

The number of internet searches in the UK for construction jobs in Saudi Arabia has soared by 293% year on year, according to the online tradesperson marketplace, Rated People. It…