Laing O’Rourke has installed the first 18t internal ‘super column’ in the north-west corner of Everton FC’s new Bramley-Moore Dock stadium.

The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has served improvement notices to contractors Bouygues and Laing O’Rourke after a scaffold worker fell from height.

A selection of the best images in construction from the past month.

A selection of construction industry images from the past month.

The world’s biggest crane has lifted a 347t liner steel ring onto the Unit 1 reactor building at Hinkley Point C nuclear power station.

Suspension of sponsorship deals with Russian firms will have “no material impact” on the build of Everton’s new Bramley Moore Dock stadium.

Laing O’Rourke’s concrete frame and substructure specialist Expanded has completed a complex staircase at the London College of Fashion, inspired by an orange peel.

A new style of vaulted floor that cuts concrete usage by up to 75% could replace solid slab floors as construction moves towards its net zero targets.

he use of 5D BIM in the construction of the Beijing Winter Olympic Village and improving safety will both be debated during the Global Construction Summit.

Laing O’Rourke is to replace red diesel with hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) in all its construction plant before the end of March. The decision follows tests over the last six…

A selection of construction industry images from the past month.

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

Laing O’Rourke has won a deal to build the new Stephen A Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities for the University of Oxford.

Manufacturers’ organisation Make UK has launched a new trade body, Make Modular, to bring together Britain’s modular housing companies.

Ray O’Rourke, Laing O’Rourke founder, majority shareholder and Group CEO, will step down from the group chief executive’s position in September 2022, the company has announced.

Laing O’Rourke chief executive Ray O’Rourke has pledged that the firm will transform ways of working in the business, as it harnesses an appetite for change in the construction sector amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Laing O’Rourke has blamed “demographic changes” to the composition of its directly employed construction workforce and the impact of covid-19 on earnings among salaried staff for a widening gender pay gap.

Laing O’Rourke chief executive Ray O’Rourke has warned that construction remains in the “dark ages” and has urged the sector to move to more offsite manufacturing.