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  • Let's hope that unlike the Oscars, they make the right choices and open the right envelopes. The UK Passivhaus Trust has just announced'its short list for the 2018 UK Passivhaus awards, to be given ou ...
  • Constructionline, the supply chain and procurement management expert, has partnered with London Build 2018, the leading construction and design show for London and the UK. The partnership will involve ...
  • Architect Stefan Hitthaler completes his restoration of a forgotten mountain chalet, now named the UFO house, which was originally constructed in 1973. The late Innsbruck based architect Josef Lackner ...
  • The world's first 100% solar-powered 24-hour off-grid mobile cabin has been successfully piloted for the construction workforce by global leader Consolidated Contractors Company. Partnering with Germa ...
  • WOMEN IN CONSTRUCTION ' THE CRITICAL SOLUTION TO A SKILLS SHORTAGE

    30 Jul 2018 Costello Palmer Communications
    The drive to encourage and retain women in construction roles is a critical solution to the skills shortage and a topic of enormous importance to the industry at large. One only has to consider the 30 ...
  • London Build 2018 are delighted that the Association of Consultant Architects (ACA) are the lead partner for the London Design Summit being held on the 23rd and 24th of October. Led by the president, ...
  • This innovative'home began as a tiny vertical Georgian'house the size of a two-bedroom flat, with just one room on each of four floors. Now, a daring basement extension has added 50 per cent more livi ...
  • British construction firm, Vermont Construction, has won a contract to build the first tower of Liverpool's Infinity project. The 27-story tower will be the first of three to make up the '250mn ($329. ...
  • With diversity and inclusion a big issue with the construction industry, we talk here with Anna Nasalska-Olczyk, who combines her own career as a design and technical manager at developer L&Q with the ...
  • Free hands-on workshops for young women will be held in Hackney to promote careers in construction.
  • When you think of the age of hand drafted architecture drawings, what images come to mind? Is it the iconic plans of the Palladian Villas? Fast forward to present day, where'architecture software'is f ...
  • The construction sector as it currently operates cannot meet the UK's need for housing and may struggle to meet the need for infrastructure, according to the'House of Lords Science and Technology Comm ...
  • The construction of London's 'super sewer' will mark the end to millions of tonnes of raw, untreated sewage overflowing the system and spilling into the Thames each year. ' As the population of London ...
  • Planners stump up consent for architect to extend Westminster School sporting landmark
  • Manchester Metropolitan University has started the search for a contractor to build its Feilden Clegg Bradley-designed digital school at the All Saints campus, with an opening date for the building ta ...
  • UK airports and their logistical operations are set to benefit from the autonomous vehicle technology revolution, a new report has highlighted.
  • HYBRID POWER SOLUTION FOR LONDON UNDERGROUND PROJECT

    23 Jul 2018 Power Engineering International
    UK'construction industry power provider Off Grid Energy has installed its largest and most powerful temporary power hybrid unit at a London Underground train station. Four new customer passageways are ...
  • The Italian businessman on diversifying outside of automobiles into everything from bicycles and bridges to skyscrapers and football stadiums'
  • The government has published its response to six recommendations made by MPs to try and stop major corporate collapses like that of Carillion earlier this year from happening again and to beef up regu ...
  • A pair of penthouses atop one of the Isle Of Dogs' most unusual buildings have gone on sale.'