The Environment Agency is set to roll out a carbon and cost estimating tool, developed with Aecom, across all its construction projects to help the organisation meet its 2030 net zero ambitions.

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

BIM is now the norm for those working in major architectural practices, five years after its mandate, according to the latest Digital Construction Report from NBS.

Align JV, the team made up on Bouygues, Sir Robert McAlpine and VolkerFitzpatrick, has cast the first of 56 concrete piers supporting the Colne Valley Viaduct, set to become the UK’s longest railway bridge, for HS2.

JCB’s telematics portal has been updated to include integration with the what3words global location system.

A 2,000-tonne tunnel boring machine (TBM) has been launched in the Midlands to dig a one-mile tunnel under Long Itchington Wood in Warwickshire.

HS2 has launched a new initiative that aims to enable companies of all sizes in its supply chain to be inclusive and to follow best practice on diversity.

Archaeologists working on the HS2 project have unearthed three stone Roman busts at what could once have a mausoleum under a medieval church in Stoke Mandeville in Buckinghamshire.

HS2 has defended a decision to use non-UK-approved rebar from French fabricator Sendin on the high-speed rail project, despite criticism from the UK steel industry. The British Association of Reinforcement…

A partnership of the Alan Turing Institute and Accenture is seeking bids from digital twin projects for research funding.

Contractor KN Circet has started work to refurbish the Grade I listed Old Curzon Street station in Birmingham, as part of the HS2 project.

Laing O’Rourke, Skanska and the Unity joint venture between Sir Robert McAlpine and VolkerFitzpatrick are all in the running for the £370m Solihull Interchange station.

The Skanska, Costain and Strabag (SCS) joint venture working on HS2 is using Zutec software.

The developer of a 28,000sq km coastal resort in Saudi Arabia, has been awarded the BSI’s BIM Project Kitemark.

A new pilot scheme for the role of an ecological clerk of works, who ensures contractors and clients comply with environmental legislation and planning conditions, is set to go ahead after being put on hold by the covid-19 pandemic.

HS2 has revealed the inner workings of its 170m-long tunnel boring machine (TBM) Cecilia, to show how the machine is excavating a 10-mile-long section of tunnel under the Chilterns.

Pre-cast concrete firm Pacadar has won a deal to produce 58,000 factory-built concrete tunnel segments for use in HS2’s London tunnels.

HS2 Ltd London tunnels contractor SCS JV (Skanska Costain Strabag joint venture) says 3D printing technology will reduce disruption to commuters during building works as well as mitigating environmental impact.