Contractor fined after bats attack housing tenant
A contractor has been fined after bats attacked a nearby tenant as a result of works carried out on a sheltered housing bungalow in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. The tenant was admitted…
A view from Amazon on AI and human capability in construction
Who’s teaching professionals how to think alongside AI? Amazon senior pre-construction manager Dominic Skinner FCIOB CIAT argues that this is not a technology problem: in fact, it is a human…
Old school site in Telford to get 86 new homes for social rent
Richard Parker, mayor of the West Midlands Combined Authority, is spending £2m to regenerate a derelict former school site in Telford with 207 new homes. A total of 86 –…
Winvic’s mammoth logistics park crosses finish line amid industry accolades
After a five-year programme of works, Winvic Construction has completed civil engineering and two warehouses at Segro Logistics Park Northampton, a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project and one of the UK’s…
CIOB calls on members to nominate ‘construction champions’
Everyone in construction knows someone who deserves this. The person who argued for retrofit when knocking it down and starting again would have been the easier call. The one who…
Heathrow adopts geospatial platform for operational resilience
Heathrow Airport has gone live with Heathrow Explorer, a geospatial platform from Esri UK that provides a real-time, single view of infrastructure and assets, enabling teams to make faster and better decisions.…
Mayor unveils £88.6m package to tackle London’s construction skills shortage
The mayor of London has announced an £88.6m investment to train the capital’s next generation of construction workers, as the industry faces growing pressure to deliver hundreds of thousands of…
UCL’s breakthrough solar window generates power from inside and out
An international team of researchers led by University College London (UCL) has developed a semi-transparent solar cell prototype that could be used for windows that harvest energy from both the…
How demonstrable social value turns good buildings into great ones
Social value is becoming a measure of how well assets are delivered, but it must go further than that: there must be a standard of proof of how investment improved…
Looking beyond the hard hat: what site life taught me about mental health
Fin Topping, trainee quantity surveyor and Jordan’s ambassador at Seddon, reflects on the realities of site life, the importance of everyday conversations and why mental health remains one of construction’s…