Mace has begun reworking Denys Lasdun’s 1960s modernist landmark at the University of East Anglia into a low‑carbon teaching and research facility. Will Mann speaks to the project team 4D…

A national builders’ merchant has been fined £2.2m after a worker was fatally crushed by a timber pallet. Paul Coulson was removing plastic packaging from pallets of timber inside a…

CIOB research shows young people are interested in built environment careers – we must do more to bring them into the industry, writes Victoria Hills Image: Dreamstime As covered in…

Sumitomo Heavy Industries (SHI) and tech giant NEC are developing a system that automatically extracts recordings of near-miss incidents and generates corresponding reports based on the camera footage and sensor…

MP Kirsteen Sullivan is calling for new legislation to help ensure all workers are provided with properly fitting PPE.  Sullivan, the MP for Bathgate and Linlithgow, set out the new…

A three-year government funding programme has been introduced after the Grenfell Inquiry identified a lack of qualified safety professionals in the built environment sector. The £55m funding will increase the…

International property and construction consultancy Gleeds says David Johnson, currently chief operating officer, will become chief executive on 6 April. A four-decade veteran of Gleeds, Johnson succeeds Graham Harle, who…

Developer Oakmont goes all in on offsite system used in the Nordics for 48 years, telling CM it’s twice as fast. Talo says its system, developed over four decades, is…

More than four in five UK construction projects still rely on manual or inconsistent contract management – rather than digital systems – according to a new survey from framework specialist…