AI Impacts published a survey in August last year where typical respondents thought there was a 5% probability of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) causing a very negative event, such as human extinction. Before we all stock up on tinned goods and pasta, let us examine the other 95% of outcomes…
Dipesh Shah OBE, who is National Highways chair, has announced his intention to leave the role at the end of his current term in office later this year.
His term officially ends in August but he has agreed an extension into September, or until the end of 2023 if required, while…
The climate emergency demands a laser focus on reducing carbon emissions across the built environment. So, can offsite construction be used to deliver on our decarbonisation goals?
The new report from the Supply Chain Sustainability School on Whole Life Carbon Guidance for Offsite Construction sets out to answer this question.…
Entries are now open for the 2023 TechFest Awards, with new categories added to celebrate innovation in even more areas of civil engineering and construction.
The broader outlook for the awards, which will be held in the evening after TechFest's daytime conference on 23 November at Hilton London Bankside, are the…
Kier is to restructure its infrastructure services division from three units to two in a bid to align more closely with client needs.
The contractor said it would scrap its current system of splitting the division into highways, utilities and infrastructure projects. Instead Kier will consolidate its teams into two work streams:…
Unite, the UK’s construction union, has called for investigations into the fatality on a High Speed 2 (HS2) site in the West Midlands to be carried out by HS2's contractor in conjunction with trade unions in order to deliver faster lessons learned for the industry.
On 27 April a man in…
Delays to major infrastructure projects such as HS2 and the Lower Thames Crossing mean the UK construction recession will be deeper than initially feared, economists have warned.
The Construction Products Association's (CPA) closely-watched Spring Forecasts outlined a 6.4% drop in industry output this year. This is down from a 4.7% fall…
This month has seen Skanska UK put in place the only current female chief executive at a Tier 1 contractor in the UK, while other contractors including Buro Happold, Sisk and Morgan Sindall have also made senior appointments.
A round up of the biggest moves and appointments during April is below.…
Turner & Townsend has been appointed to lead a multi-disciplinary consultancy for Crown Estate Scotland’s Built Development, Coastal and Land Transactions Professional Services Framework.
The three-year framework was awarded via a competitive public tender, and will run until 2026, with the option of extending for up to two years, and aims…
As a student studying geotechnics, I used to joke about needing to attach things to magic “sky hooks” in order to solve some slope stability challenges or to undertake the temporary works stages of schemes I had been tasked to design. No help in that form was coming though, so…
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