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Engineering culture in the UK needs to accelerate its drive to become more inclusive if the UK is to continue to be a key player in the global race for engineering skills.

Ferrovial Construction UK has reported an operating profit of -£30M in 2022 tied to complications at the Silvertown Tunnel project.

The deadline for entries to the NCE Awards has been extended until 5 May, maximising the opportunity for UK-based civil engineering consulting firms to achieve recognition as leaders in the sector.

Global inflation and striving to reach net zero are named as two key reasons for accelerating construction costs, a report by Arcadis has said.

A new report by McKinsey & Company has highlighted that firms are allocating up to 70% of their spend on procurement “to reach sustainability goals”. 

Three years have passed since the Covid-19 pandemic, but businesses are still seeing the impact on their work environments. Hybrid and flexible models have become the norm, with a larger focus on culture and wellbeing. With these changes, the very meaning of “office” has shifted to help put people at…

Authorities and lawyers in the infrastructure sector have unanimously thrown their support behind the National Infrastructure Commission’s (NIC’s) recommendations for the government to streamline the infrastructure planning system.

Bam Nuttall, along with a number of other industry leaders, has teamed up with business transformation enterprise Fuel Change to help bring to life a pioneering sustainability and skills development programme for our next generation of engineers. Fuel Change is an organisation working with businesses and schools to enable apprentices…

Leading organisations have signed the Inspiring Women in Construction and Engineering Pledge, a joint initiative between NCE and Construction News, to encourage companies to prioritise equality, diversity and inclusion.

Scottish civil engineering firm RJ McLeod will be sentenced later this week after admitting in court that its breaches of health and safety regulations led to the death of a 10-year-old boy on its construction site for a flood alleviation project in Glasgow in 2020.