News Weekly wrap: Evacuation lifts | Shopping centre build defects | Railway bridge factory As the week draws to a close, CM rounds up the construction stories you may have missed over the past seven days.
News In pictures: The best images from January A selection of construction industry images from the past month.
Digital Construction BIM in brief 25.1.22: Las Vegas digital twin reaches second stage A round-up of BIM and digital construction stories that you might have missed in the past seven days.
News Weekly wrap 13.01.22: tower fire warning, Carillion auditor apologises, Ray O’Rourke’s successor As the week draws to a close, CM rounds up the construction stories you may have missed over the past seven days.
Digital Construction Environment Agency adopts Aecom-developed carbon tool 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.
News Weekly wrap 01.07.22: ‘Falling object’ fatality, Max Fordham dies, and spaceport plan As the week draws to a close, CM rounds up the construction stories you may have missed over the past seven days.
Digital Construction BIM now the norm among major architectural practices 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.
Video Video | Align JV casts first pier on UK’s longest rail bridge 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.
Digital Construction JCB telematics integrates what3words location system JCB’s telematics portal has been updated to include integration with the what3words global location system.
News Giant TBM launched in Midlands for HS2 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.
News HS2 initiative aims to spread diversity through supply chain 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.
Video Video | HS2 dig unearths rare Roman statues 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.
News Imported French rebar sparks HS2 steel row 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…
Digital Construction Turing Institute and Accenture open digital twin funding call A partnership of the Alan Turing Institute and Accenture is seeking bids from digital twin projects for research funding.
News KN Circet starts work restoring Grade I listed railway building Contractor KN Circet has started work to refurbish the Grade I listed Old Curzon Street station in Birmingham, as part of the HS2 project.
News Laing O’Rourke, Skanska and Sir Robert McAlpine vie for £370m HS2 station 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.
Digital Construction Skanska Costain Strabag JV adopts Zutec software on HS2 The Skanska, Costain and Strabag (SCS) joint venture working on HS2 is using Zutec software.
Digital Construction Red Sea island resort achieves BIM Project Kitemark The developer of a 28,000sq km coastal resort in Saudi Arabia, has been awarded the BSI’s BIM Project Kitemark.
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