Two Kier joint ventures, Laing O’Rourke and Bowmer and Kirkland are among the six contractors appointed by the Ministry of Defence for a new ‘alliance’ to build single living accommodation for the Army using MMC.

Each year Autodesk runs its expo of new product launches and best practice: Autodesk University (AU). This year, after two remote years due to covid, AU was a face-to-face event held over three days in New Orleans at the end of September.

After two years without any physical site visits, due to Covid, members of the CIOB Newcastle Hub took a tour of Bank House, on Pilgrim Street in Newcastle-upon-Tyne at the end of January.

A BAM Nuttall-led consortium has started the first live trial of a private 5G network on a construction site in the UK.

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has updated its Design for Manufacture and Assembly guidance following the update of the RIBA Plan of Work.