News How you build at the bottom of the world Senior British Antarctic Survey project manager David Brand tells GCR about the biggest UK project ever in Antarctica. Last month saw the opening of the British Antarctic Survey’s £100m Discovery…
News Team picked to deliver Europe’s first SMR power stations Mace Consult, Hochtieff, Turner & Townsend and Unipart have been appointed to the delivery partner team helping Rolls-Royce build nuclear power plants with small modular reactor (SMRs). They’ll join Virginia-headquartered…
News ‘Massive upgrade’ underway at British High Commission in Cyprus Work has started on the new British High Commission offices at its existing site in Nicosia, Cyprus’ capital, with Cypriot company Atlas Pantou acting as main contractor. The Commission described…
News UK contractor moves into Australia with acquisition OCU Group, a contractor based in Stockport, UK has announced its entry into the Australian market through the acquisition of multidisciplinary All Energy Contracting (AEC) for an undisclosed sum. AEC…
News AtkinsRéalis extends nuclear robotics partnership Canadian engineer AtkinsRéalis has extended its partnership with Canadian robotics manufacturer Kinova for three more years. The duo previously collaborated at the UK’s Sellafield nuclear site, where Kinova’s robotic arm…
News UK’s Amey re-enters Australian market with acquisition UK engineer and asset manager Amey has re-entered the Australian market through its acquisition of Premise, a multidisciplinary consultancy it has bought for an undisclosed sum. The move is part…
News UK university helps designs heat pump for Ukraine’s tough winters A team at Aston University is working with Kyiv’s National Academy of Sciences on a heat pump able to deal with Ukrainian winters. The design works with Ukraine’s Soviet-style cast-iron…
News So how’s the UK’s nuclear renaissance going? Billions are now being spent on two new nuclear power plants in the UK. Tune into the 21CC podcast to hear a leading nuclear expert on why nuclear’s coming back…
News Robotic house-building start-up secures £5.1m UK construction tech company Automated Architecture (Auar) has secured £5.1m in new funding to commercialise its robotic “pop-up micro-factory” system, in which a robotic arm equipped with machine vision and…
News British Antarctic Survey starts using new Discovery Building After six construction seasons squeezed into Antarctica’s brief summer, the British Antarctic Survey’s new research support facility, the Discovery Building, is coming into operational use at the UK’s Rothera Research…
Machinery JCB hails UK-India trade deal as ‘massive opportunity’ UK machinery maker JCB has welcomed this month’s UK-India Free Trade Agreement after the formal conclusion of talks between the two countries on 6 May. The deal still needs to…
News UK, Switzerland in talks about a direct rail link Switzerland and the UK have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to build a direct rail link between the two countries. The countries’ transport departments have set up a working…
Innovation London researchers help build Indian school with ‘Sugarcrete’ Researchers at the University of East London (UEL) have built a school in India out of a new low-carbon building material made from the pith left after sugar cane is…
News Engineering contracts awarded for UK’s first floating wind farm The developers of the 560MW “Green Volt” floating wind farm in the UK has awarded front-end engineering and design contracts to two engineering consortia. One went to a team of…
News Summer construction season begins at Britain’s Antarctic base British Antarctic Survey (BAS) workers have arrived at Rothera, the UK’s largest research station on the continent, ready to remove the accumulated snow and begin the summer construction season. Those…
News Rebuilding Kharkiv: UK engineer wins international design contest A UK design engineer has won an international competition organised by the Norman Foster Foundation to create a masterplan for the reconstruction of the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. It’s estimated…
News UK start-up ships two robotic housebuilding ‘micro-factories’ to the US UK construction tech startup Automated Architecture (AUAR) is shipping two of its robotic “pop-up micro-factories” to the US in its first foray into automated housebuilding in North America. Packed into…
News BAM and Ramboll rehabilitate Britain’s Antarctic runway A team formed of contractor BAM and technical adviser Ramboll has resurfaced the runway at the British Antarctic Survey’s Rothera Research Station, enabling planes to land at there for the…