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Transport for London (TfL) paid for its day-to-day operating costs without extraordinary funding from government in 2023-24 for the first time since the pandemic, but still needs a long-term capital funding settlement for major projects.

As a sector with a global supply chain, construction is amongst the first to feel the effects of geopolitical events.

Balfour Beatty’s Strategic Design Partnership (SDP) with Mott MacDonald, AtkinsRéalis and Jacobs has made significant strides in optimising infrastructure design processes, senior figures from the firms have told NCE.

UK construction is embattled. Growth is eluding us, barricaded behind an obstacle course of ongoing economic challenges, rising global tensions and an imminent General Election.

The decision to approve the redevelopment of Chatham Docks into a mixed-use scheme has been deemed “catastrophic” for UK steel supplies by ArcelorMittal.

May was quite the whirlwind for the big construction and engineering firms. As the UK gets ready for a potential change in governance, companies across the sector have been switching things at the top too.

In the first of our new monthly round-up of partnerships, mergers and acquisitions in the engineering sector, we have news from Mott MacDonald, Stantec, Turner & Townsend and more.

Concrete is the second most consumed material by humans on the planet, second only to water and, together with the cement used to make it, is a critical component of the built environment. The global concrete industry is set to see huge growth in demand due to drivers such as…

There has been a “small but significant” decline in the number of women who are working in engineering and technology roles, particularly in the 35-44 age range, according to Engineering UK.

HS2 Ltd has announced Mark Wild OBE as its new chief executive officer, with the former Crossrail CEO set to “lead the completion of the high-speed railway and help realise its transformational benefits”.