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  • HS2 Ltd is now recruiting new apprentices to help build the new high-speed railway. The next generation of engineers, project managers, designers, architects and geologists are playing their part in t ...
  • Women are grossly underrepresented in skilled manual construction roles. Neil Gerrard asks what can be done to boost the number of ‘women on the tools’. Nowhere is it more obvious that women are under ...
  • The Minister for Housing and Local Government announced a £35M fund to build innovative new homes in Wales. Minister Julie James visited Swansea Council’s Colliers Way development to announce the fund ...
  • Winning firm will be handed 14 year contract Parliament has begun the search for a firm to carry out vetting work on the £4bn upgrade of the Palace of Westminster. The winner of the £28m contract will ...
  • The Environment Agency has published new evidence which will help it plan for flood and coastal risk up to 2065. The new study uses climate change, population and mapping data to set out future flood ...
  • The REA, who represent over 70 companies financing, manufacturing, installing, and operating the transition to an electric vehicle future, has launched a new report on the interoperability of public c ...
  • Irish architect Sheila O’Donnell, of O’Donnell and Tuomey, has been named the Architect of the Year at the 2019 Women in Architecture awards in London. The awards are an international program organize ...
  • Technology company Trimble has unveiled a high-tech hard hat that lets workers see holographic models overlaid on real structures being built. Called the “Trimble XR10 with HoloLens 2”, it follows the ...
  • Sharply pointed roofs and blackened wood cladding characterise these treehouses that Peter Pichler Architecture has designed for a mountain forest in the Dolomites of northern Italy. The Milan-based s ...
  • Dutch design practice UNStudio has created a new urban vision to create the world's smartest neighborhood in the Netherlands. Located in Helmond’s Brandevoort District, the project was imagined as a f ...
  • Mr Kitchingman, a chartered accountant and corporate financier who spent more than 25 years in the City of London, joins the BBA at an exciting and challenging time, with a number of initiatives and p ...
  • CITB experts are predicting an extra 168,500 new construction jobs will be created over the next five years despite the uncertainty of Brexit. The training body’s annual Construction Skills Network (C ...
  • Further details have been revealed of a £6.5m R&D project that aims to modernise house-building. The project was one of last month's winners of a pot of government funding.  The Construction Scotland ...
  • After a generation in the doghouse, concrete is more fashionable than ever. So why don’t we take better care of our brutalist architecture? Love it or loathe it, concrete is everywhere. It is not only ...
  • Scottish Power has announced a £2bn investment plan for this year, including installing battery storage for UK wind turbines and charging points for electric vehicles. It said that the spending of up ...
  • Machine technology and a zero-waste policy are boosting efficiency on a major housing development in Oxfordshire. David Taylor reports. The post-recessionary boom in house-building has proved a godsen ...
  • An innovative new show for the concrete and associated industries Concrete Expo presents a fantastic opportunity to take full advantage of an exciting new event for the concrete industry, whilst also ...
  • SOM has revealed their design for the world’s first floating eco-park along the Chicago River. Called Wild Mile Chicago, the project is sited between Chicago and North avenues along the east side of G ...
  • The Norwegian parliament (Stortinget) has started research into submerged floating tube bridges to be used along the E39 Coastal Highway Route between the cities of Kristiansand and Trondheim in West ...
  • The latest instalment of our Dezeen x MINI Living series features a sustainable 3D-printed house made with soil and agricultural waste. Italian 3D-printing technology developer WASP, built the house t ...
  • Calor’s latest CPD course, on the benefits of its BioLPG fuel for new homes based off the mains gas grid, has been accredited by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).
  • Ctrl Hub could streamline a number of processes and reduce NGN’s exposure to its supply chain. Every element of which was then carried out entirely by spreadsheet and paper forms.   
  • Survey reveals shocking use of plastics and packaging in construction 18 February 2019: The Considerate Constructors Scheme has launched its industry-wide campaign ‘Spotlight on...plastics and packagi ...
  • A BOOM in construction jobs fuelled a 50,500 surge in the numbers at work in Ireland last year. But employment in the building industry has not bounced back to Celtic Tiger levels. New figures reveal ...

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