Kier has started construction of what will become the country’s first net zero carbon prison in operation.

Recently, Kier became one of the first UK employers to provide serving prisoners with the opportunity to get an apprenticeship, following a major change in the law.

Kier has become one of the first employers in England to offer apprenticeship opportunities to prisoners, following a change in the law.

Daryl Parker had 40 weeks to transform a fire control centre building into a diagnostics centre.

Kier Construction’s Joe O’Connell MCIOB is 2022’s Construction Manager of the Year, with a project for our time: an ultra-energy efficient leisure centre for Exeter City Council.

On this 600-pupil school in under six months, Amy Griffiths upended the typical handling of the landscaping works

By sheet-piling the basement box with a vibrationless rig on this scheme, Conor O’Keeffe MCIOB avoided excess ground displacement that would have affected nearby sewers.

Helen Redfern, chief people officer at the Kier Group, tells CM how she set out to make a difference to the industry.

Kier has launched a new tool to track its spend in areas of social deprivation across the UK.

Contractors Seddon and Kier are among the top 100 employers for apprentices in 2022, along with several major housebuilders, according to a new list.

Skanska’s platform that integrates two data sets that are not natively interoperable, GIS and BIM, won the Digital Excellence in a Construction Business category, sponsored by Autodesk Construction Cloud, at the Digital Construction Awards last night (12 July).

Procore is working with Amazon Web Services to use the latter’s technology to accelerate the creation of digital twins for buildings, factories, industrial equipment, and production lines.

HS2 main works contractor EKFB (Eiffage, Kier, Ferrovial and BAM Nuttall) has developed an offsite approach to build a new ‘green tunnel’ for the high-speed rail line.

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has fined accountancy firm PwC a total of nearly £5m for its audits of construction firms Galliford Try and Kier.

A selection of construction industry images from the past month.

The entry deadline for the Digital Construction Awards has been extended by one week to 5pm on Friday 1 April.

Kier has launched a drive to recruit 1,200 people across the UK on projects including schools, hospitals, roads and rail.

A round-up of BIM and digital construction stories that you might have missed in the past seven days.