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  • Heathrow Airport Ltd [HAL] has unveiled its masterplan to expand the airport, which includes detailed plans to lower the M25 beneath the third runway, to divert rivers and enhance surface access for t ...
  • How a macho industry has been transformed Concrete, dust, dirt, high-vis jackets and noise; building sites are not obvious places to stage a disruptive digital start-up. Much less that construction wo ...
  • Digital construction is at the forefront of the UK’s overarching Industrial Strategy. With an abundance of digital solutions available to streamline project management and workflow, which measures can ...
  • Following the serious fire at the Samuel Garside House development in Barking at the weekend, leading timber industry associations, the Timber Trade Federation (TTF) and Wood Protection Association (W ...
  • The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has set out his plans for a major expansion of London’s electric vehicle-charging network to ensure the capital continues to be one of the world’s leading zero-emissio ...
  • Barbour ABI have revealed the top 50 architects and clients for the month as well as the last 12 months. Their league tables report is compiled using a mix of survey data from some of UK’s largest con ...
  • NEXT architects has curated the second annual Bicycle Architecture Biennale as a showcase of buildings that transform cities through cycling. Opening in Amsterdam, the BAB shows the work of internatio ...
  • The New South Wales Environment Protection Authority has invested US$74,000 in a trial to use sand made from recycled glass in a highway project. As part of the “Waste Less, Recycle More” programme, g ...
  • Architect Kristoffer Tejlgaard has designed and built a fully transparent 25-square-meter pavilion that resembles a water droplet. Born out of a desire to create a high-quality contemporary alternativ ...
  • The #iBuiltThis2019 competition is open for entries. The competition, run by FIS, now in its third year, is a visual campaign that draws on the pride construction workers take when they see finished p ...
  • The Fire Protection Association, the UK’s national fire safety organisation, is highlighting that, if we want to prevent another Grenfell Tower tragedy, it’s time for some immediate change. The organi ...
  • GMB, the construction union, has revealed it will take nearly 200 years to achieve gender equality in the construction industry. The analysis, revealed at GMB’s annual congress in Brighton this week, ...
  • The UK is to become the first G7 nation to set a legally-binding target to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050. Prime Minister Theresa May announced Government will tomorrow lay a statutory inst ...
  • Spot the robot dog was one of the stars of this year’s NXT BLD, the technology conference and exhibition for architecture, engineering and construction held recently at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre, ...
  • More than 220 cubic metres of new concrete and 165 tonnes of fabricated steelwork will be needed to fix structural faults at the mothballed Royal Liverpool Hospital. The scale of the repair work to re ...
  • An LBC investigation has found faulty fire doors, broken smoke alarms and combustible cladding in a block of flats in Barking on the same estate where a huge fire broke out on Sunday. Nearly two years ...
  • With architects changing their ways in response to global warming, Phineas Harper asks: what does radical architecture look like in the era of climate change? A whole host of Stirling Prize-winning ar ...
  • One of Europe’s most popular tourist attractions has finally been given planning permission after more than a century of illegal construction work. Work has been carried out on the Sagrada Familia in ...
  • German architecture practice Ingenhoven has broken ground on a new mixed-use development for Düsseldorf. As a "green heart" and urban mountain in the city, the project is being built at Gustaf-Gründge ...
  • Yiyang Xu and Jingyi Ye of the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology have designed the ‘arctic saver tower’ with the purpose of protecting the polar glaciers and prolonging the winter s ...
  • Kier are at the top of the contractors’ league table for May 2019, thanks to 12 contracts awarded with a total value of £397 million. Construction of the new HM Prison Wellingborough contributed £253 ...
  • If robots built your house, what would it look like? Construction has been slow to adopt new technologies. But that is changing fast as robots, drones and 3D printing are making construction more effi ...
  • Dr Paul Cureton of ImaginationLancaster at Lancaster University and Elliot Hartley, managing director of Garsdale Design, examine the UK’s digital twin ambitions “[If to develop future] infrastructure ...
  • One of the UK’s leading industry events has this year partnered up with the recently launched Construction Innovation Hub to put innovation in the spotlight across the construction supply chain. UK Co ...

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