Unite, the UK’s construction union, has called for investigations into the fatality on a High Speed 2 (HS2) site in the West Midlands to be carried out by HS2's contractor in conjunction with trade unions in order to deliver faster lessons learned for the industry.
Delays to major infrastructure projects such as HS2 and the Lower Thames Crossing mean the UK construction recession will be deeper than initially feared, economists have warned.
This month has seen Skanska UK put in place the only current female chief executive at a Tier 1 contractor in the UK, while other contractors including Buro Happold, Sisk and Morgan Sindall have also made senior appointments.
Turner & Townsend has been appointed to lead a multi-disciplinary consultancy for Crown Estate Scotland’s Built Development, Coastal and Land Transactions Professional Services Framework.
As a student studying geotechnics, I used to joke about needing to attach things to magic “sky hooks” in order to solve some slope stability challenges or to undertake the temporary works stages of schemes I had been tasked to design. No help in that form was coming though, so…
There has been a fatality of a worker on a High Speed 2 (HS2) site in Birmingham.
All civil engineers and economists learn a simple lesson as undergraduates: investing in infrastructure is key when it comes to improving productivity.
Frameworks giant Pagabo has set out plans to shake up its £750M professional services panel. The procurement specialist published a formal notice of its intention to invite interest in the next iteration of the wide-reaching deal in July this year. Big-name consultants such as Atkins, Mott MacDonald and WSP sit…
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A sharp drop has been recorded in the volume of new civils work getting underway across the UK.
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