The built environment needs to find uses and solutions to the ‘Marie Celeste buildings’ that no-one wants to retrofit or tranform, writes Gleeds’ Graham Harle.

As the week draws to a close, CM rounds up the construction stories you may have missed over the past seven days.

Public infrastructure projects like schools and universities are well suited to MMC and helping clients to overcome unfounded quality concerns can lead to significant time, efficiency and cost benefits, says James Garner.

George Parsons, Gleeds graduate project manager, has been working in Peru on an extended placement, part of the ARCC programme which, among other projects, is reconstructing infrastructure after 2017’s El Niño flooding.

Gleeds has launched a new advisory business in preparation for an expected wave of construction disputes in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic.