Orbital launches in 2024 from the Scottish SaxaVord Spaceport in Shetland are a step closer thanks to an additional £10M of funding announced during the Spring Budget.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt announced the support in his statement to the House of Commons, and the official ‘red book’ which lists…
Europe and the UK face economic headwinds, yet infrastructure projects can trigger growth and deliver significant social and environmental benefits. Unlocking these impacts requires improving industry productivity, especially in the planning and preparation stages.
In the past, large-scale infrastructure projects have been successfully used as economic stimulants for growth, but…
Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC) is an aerated, lightweight concrete based material which does not contain aggregate unlike conventional concrete.
RAAC was generally used in construction between the 1950s and 1990s as a cost-effective, lightweight material with good thermal properties. Whilst concerns regarding RAAC have been voiced since the 1990s, the…
Stantec has been selected to design Tata's proposed £4bn electric car battery factory in Somerset.
Stantec has been appointed to the contract to provide integrated design services for Agratas, Tata Group’s global battery business, which is building a battery cell manufacturing facility on the Gravity Smart Campus south of Bristol, near…
Hector MacAulay MBE, Managing Director of Balfour Beatty’s Regional business in Scotland, provides insight into how the company is challenging outdated perceptions of the construction sector through school outreach.
As a member of The 5% Club – a movement of employers committed to providing ‘earn and learn’ positions - Balfour…
Urgent global challenges will be tackled collaboratively by architects, planners, structural engineers, and landscape practitioners thanks to a renewed commitment by institutes to work together.
The Royal Institute of British Architects (Riba), the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI), the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE) and the Landscape Institute (LI) have signed…
Our industry is accustomed to working at scale. We deal with huge networks and facilities across countless sectors and specialisms that, despite often being made up of a million small things, add up to something gigantic.
That means it is almost startling when any part of the infrastructure ecosystem is faced…
As everyone settles into 2024 some of the big engineering and construction firms have made big changes within their leadership teams.
As well as National Highways appointing a new chair, Balfour Beatty, Sir Robert McAlpine and others have done some shuffling at the top. A round up of the biggest moves…
Millions of cubic metres of earth and water are being moved ‘around the clock’ to build the ambitious The Line city project in Saudi Arabia, according to an update from state project delivery body Neom.
The Line is a proposed linear city under construction in the north west of Saudi Arabia…
On 31 January this year, Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) London Regional Committee welcomed Sir Vivian Ramsey, former judge, alongside fellow committee members from the ICE Ethics Committee to explore ethics, equity, and the law in the context of our profession.
Ethics wasn’t really a topic of much interest over…
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