Tilbury Douglas has become the first tier one contractor to deploy a humanoid robot on a live construction site. The robot, named Douglas, has been introduced to support and assist…

Half a year may sound like plenty of time, but it’s complicated and there’s no transition period. The levy was introduced after Grenfell to help fund the remediation of unsafe…

Proposals to dispense with building control procedural requirements for the drilling of holes for fibre-optic cabling have been met with concern by the Fire Protection Association (FPA). In its response…

Making children’s safety a core principle of how places are designed, built and managed is the focus of a new toolkit published by the NSPCC this spring. Mott MacDonald’s Sarah…

How should construction managers prepare for medical emergencies and trauma response on site, and what rules do they need to follow? Mike Dowson explains A bleed control kit on a…

150 cubic metres mixed with Ecocem cement makes capping beam for a contiguous pile wall at the Shipley Depot. The pour is being carried out in 12 phases over 12…

The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) is currently seeking members for its Heritage Advisory Panel. The professional body is looking for candidates who work in the UK heritage sector and have a…

You’re a leading SME contractor and want to improve your construction management systems, but you can’t afford enterprise-level software from the big software developers. So what do you do? If…

Developer steps on the accelerator as a new town and a Universal theme park juice travel demand along the university ‘supercluster’. Artist’s render of the new eastern entrance at Bletchley…

The London Borough of Harrow is building a digital twin of its key sites that is already delivering cost savings. Using Site Scan drone software from Esri UK, Harrow is capturing…