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Lowest-price tendering is forcing contractors to price their work at unrealistically low levels, which is likely to have serious consequences on the construction industry, according to ICAEW In its Au ...

The UK’s biggest water and waste company is pledging to invest up to £1bn in cutting-edge technology over the next six years in a bid to “revolutionise” its operations and to boost efficiency by 20%. ...

Heathrow Airport today revealed 18 sites left in the running to become construction hubs for the third runway project. Sites proposed by main contractors Balfour Beatty and John Graham, as well a stee ...

Highways England has announced a major roads study to improve road links in East Lancashire and Yorkshire. The £300,000 roads study will look at major improvements on the M65 to improve road connectio ...

Construction companies of all sizes are being urged to provide at least one employee with occupational (OH) awareness training following a new report from Loughborough University which highlighted the ...

New research into the engineering construction labour market has revealed the significant challenges facing employers. With the industry set to grow by 33,000 jobs in the next decade, employers told r ...

black box is a small, first floor rear extension to a mid terrace victorian era house situated on a dense site in london‘s islington neighborhood. with the desire to maximize natural daylight and cele ...

Five decommissioned oil tanks set in an abandoned airport have been transformed into an “urban art park” in Shanghai, to a design by New York headquartered OPEN Architecture. Located along the Huangpu ...

new york based artists and designers, nikolas bentel and lukas bentel, have created the ‘geodesic igloo’ using large slabs of ice. the concept has been developed as an architectural exploration that c ...

Noor Art & Architecture Studio has completed a digital reconstruction of the Ayine Khaneh Palace of Isfahan, Iran. Based on historic plans and written documents, the project visualizes one of the most ...

FIS, representative body for the £10 billion finishes and interiors sector in the UK and the Steel Construction Institute (SCI), will launch the much-awaited Technical Report ED017 – Design and Instal ...