The Engineering Professors’ Council (EPC), with support from the Royal Academy of Engineering, has launched its Engineering Ethics Toolkit to help educators build ethics into their engineering teaching.
The online resource is intended to address the lack of explicit ethics teaching in the curriculums of the majority of university engineering courses.…
It’s no surprise that so many projects are either paused or delayed when the UK construction industry is suffering from a systematic shortage of workers, which is having a damaging financial impact on the sector.
Putting the scale of the problem in context, more than 60% of respondents in Royal…
The government has refused an amendment to the Procurement Bill that would have seen project bank accounts (PBAs) made mandatory for public projects valued at over £2M.
Labour MP for Oldham East and Saddleworth Debbie Abrahams had proposed that the measure be inserted into the Procurement Bill, which is currently in…
While fatal accidents and deaths from workplace illnesses remain too high, there has been genuine movement in the last decade to improve construction safety and reduce fatalities, yet the suicide rate in our industry has gone in the opposite direction.
The number of workers who find themselves in a place so…
New construction market analysis has revealed that inflation in the infrastructure sector is currently sitting at "more than double" than the increased costs associated with building.
Arcadis’ UK Summer Market View believes infrastructure inflation is sitting at 5% to 7% at the moment and predicts a slowdown in work in the…
There are four weeks left for firms to submit entries to this year’s NCE and Construction News TechFest Awards, which features new and revamped categories.
The deadline for entries is 7 July and following judging, the winners are unveiled at the ceremony on 23 November at the Hilton London Bankside This…
Market conditions in 2023 have not been easy for any industry in light of rapidly changing macroeconomic conditions, including recession, inflation and rising interest rates. As a result, firms will need to continue to be strategic when selecting the projects they want to pursue, with architecture and engineering (A&E) firms not being immune to global pressures. Despite…
Improving site efficiency, moving to cleaner fuels - including hydrogen over the longer term - and adopting electric machinery are among the goals outlined in new guidance from the Construction Leadership Council (CLC) on eliminating the use of diesel in construction.
The newly published Zero Diesel Sites Route Map has been…
Partly demolished in 1982, the chimney has benefited from the transformation of Grade II listed Rutland Mills into a mixed-use 12,500 m2 creative industries and cultural hub known as Tileyard North.
Rutland Mills was built in multiple stages from 1820 to 1936, with its original use as a spinning mill…
Just half as much civil engineering work got underway this spring as in the same period last year, dismal data this morning revealed.
Industry analysts Glenigan found that the value of civils projects starting on site was 50% lower in the three months to the end of May 2023 than a…
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