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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The UK construction market is set to reach £476.6bn by 2027. Unquestionably, the industry is undergoing a lot of transformation, shaped by technological advancements, socio-economic and political factors, environmental concerns,…

Texan solar energy company Recurrent Energy has secured €1.3bn in finance for a programme of solar and battery schemes in Europe. The company, a subsidiary of Ontario-based Canadian Solar, signed…

Canadian consulting engineer Stantec has acquired UK rival Hydrock for an undisclosed sum. The deal will boost Stantec’s UK workforce by over 30% and increase its capacity in the building…

The industry’s chronic problems of poor quality, lack of skills, and stagnant productivity are often blamed on its hyper-fragmented nature, which allows those at the top to pass the cost…

People in the UK have an overwhelmingly negative perception of new-build houses, a report from the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) reveals. In December, it published results from a survey…

London-based nuclear power start-up Newcleo is in talks with investors to raise up to €1bn to develop its generation IV small modular reactor powered by nuclear waste.  It would use…

Dave Stitt FCIOB used to be hard as nails. A civil engineer, he came into the industry as a teenager and rose through the ranks at big UK contractors Taylor…

Export credit agencies from the UK, Italy, Poland, and Austria have joined Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) to secure €1.247bn to build a high-speed railway in Turkey. Turkey’s Ministry of…