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Last month’s collapse of Cologne’s city archive building has forced the redesign of a station on Copenhagen’s metro expansion scheme.Danish politicians had demanded assurances that the proposed construction method was safe after the six storey building in Cologne collapsed into an underground excavation for a new subway and killed two…

London’s Shard of Glass tower will be the world’s first skyscraper to use a top-down construction method for its structural core, it was revealed this week.

Geotechnical work for the East London Line extension from Dalston Junction station to New Cross Gate is due to finish on Easter Sunday.Main contractor Balfour Beatty Carillion Joint Venture hired Bachy Soletanche to prepare the ground for 28 structures at 20 locations.The geotechnical contractor has bored 3,650 piles, used 43,000m2…

The competition to design the Fehmarn marine crossing between Denmark and Germany was reduced to a tunnel versus bridge battle this week.

Construction of one of the UK’s largest offshore wind farms resumed this week after a winter break.

The British Wind Energy Association (BWEA) yesterday launched a fund to help offshore wind farm developers overcome aviation objections to their schemes.

Philip Dilley has begun his term as group chairman of Arup by reshaping the firm to focus on the four distinct markets of energy, property, infrastructure and transport

The Association for Consultancy and Engineering has warned the Bank of England that the government’s promised fiscal stimulus is not taking effect.

The £400M Crossrail project delivery partner role has been to the Bechtel, Halcrow and Systra consortium, after three weeks of behind the scenes negotiations.

A funding row is threatening to undermine plans to build a massive 50km flood barrier across the straits of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf.