Sir Robert McAlpine has cut emissions and fuel by 85% in five live tower cranes on one of its construction projects during a four-month period by using hybrid energy sources.

Sir Robert McAlpine’s glorious renovation of the iconic Elizabeth Tower in Westminster is the deserved winner of the digital construction project of the year accolade – sponsored by Revizto – for 2023, announced at the Digital Construction Awards last night (4 July).

Retrofitting and refurbishing is a way to reduce construction’s energy consumption, but can it work on large projects?

A cloud-based project viewer that enables the visualisation, federation and control of project data leads the raft of new products launched by Hexagon at its Hexagon Live event in Las Vegas this week (12-15 June).

Construction analytics platform Contilio has launched what it claims is the first-of-its-kind AI quantity tracker. It automates the resource-intensive, error-prone and costly process of manually tracking onsite installed quantities during construction.

The Vinci Building/Sir Robert McAlpine JV, Integrated Health Projects, is testing the final version of the HP SitePrint robot site printer at Derby Kingsway hospital.

A selection of the best images from the past month.

Shortlist for the Digital Construction Awards 2023 Delivering Net Zero with Digital Innovation award category.

Shortlist for the Digital Construction Awards 2023 Delivering Net Zero with Digital Innovation award category.

Museum of London has formally appointed Sir Robert McAlpine as the construction manager of the museum’s new site at the Old Smithfield Market.

Steel specialist SH Structures faced many challenges when modelling, fabricating, supplying and assembling key parts of a footbridge in north-west Glasgow for Scottish Canals and Balfour Beatty.

Two major contractors have issued warnings about the health and safety risks caused by operators using construction equipment which they are not familiar with.

Arcadis has partnered with AI and modelling specialist, Cobalt Water Global, to create a tool that will help the wastewater sector reduce the amount of ozone-depleting N2O it releases into the environment.

Ahead of World Day for Safety and Health at Work, Nicky Rance explains why the right culture is crucial to delivering the highest standards in construction

Sir Robert McAlpine says it has delivered nearly £17m of social value during the lifetime of the Battersea Power Station project.

The Vinci Construction UK/Sir Robert McAlpine joint venture, Integrated Health Projects (IHP), has deployed Buildots helmet-mounted 360-degree cameras for site monitoring on the extension of the Royal Bournemouth Hospital.

Is email management keeping you awake at night? Can’t find where you saved the latest change in scope? Can’t lay your hands on the proof that the client approved a change?

Xbim secured victory at Cobuilder’s recent hackathon after demonstrating how its platform could integrate with Cobuilder’s Define digital data dictionary to undertake a life cycle assessment.