Stonehenge, Buckingham Palace and the Clifton Suspension Bridge are testament to the engineering and construction skills of bygone eras. But how easily could they be replicated today? Kier London, Faithful & Gould and Mott MacDonald put forward their proposals...
» Read full articleONLINE ONLY Skanska, the Swedish contractor operating in the UK for the past decade, has been named as preferred bidder for the £1 billion Essex Building Schools for the Future contract. Construction ...
» Read full articleONLINE ONLY Internal documents from the Health and Safety Executive and reported in Construction News reveal a sharp rise in construction fatalities. John Spanswick, chair of the Strategic Forum's health and safety ...
» Read full articleONLINE ONLY Firms bidding for the £695 million upgrade to Victoria Station in London may be asked to work without pay for a year, in effect subsidising the project for cash-strapped client ...
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ONLINE ONLY Zero-carbon eco-schools are to be rolled out across England under plans published by the Zero Carbon Task Force, according to a report in Building. The initial pilot will see 36 ...
» Read full articleONLINE ONLY Local authorities are making moves to exclude contractors implicated in the Office of Fair Trading inquiry into bid rigging from tendering opportunities, says a report in Building. It revealed that ...
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Aylesbury Waterside Theatre's timber fins and windows required precision and bespoke solutions
» Read full articlePut it to the panel Photovoltaic technology has lagged behind other sustainable products. But feed-in tariffs could change that, reports Elaine Knutt As the heron tower on London’s Bishopsgate is wrapped in glass curtain walling by ...
» Read full articleAs the first decade of the millennium ends, we ask three groups of young managers what they see as the key challenges of the next 10 years.
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... using Homer Simpson as a role model in a safety induction? As the most accident-prone nuclear safety inspector of all time, maybe not. But the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents is ...
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With flooding predicted to become a growing problem, the government is acting to reduce the impact of surface water runoff, explains Colin Nessfield More than two thirds of the 57,000 homes affected by the ...
» Read full articleLegal advisers suggest a range of tactics contractors can deploy to avoid or defuse disputes Many CM readers will probably have experienced the horrors of a construction dispute – if not first-hand, they’re ...
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January 2010: Digital Edition
