GMB | New Civil Engineer https://www.newcivilengineer.com Civil engineering and construction news and jobs from New Civil Engineer Mon, 15 Jan 2024 16:49:24 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0 https://emap-romulus-prod.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2023/07/favicon-nce192x-70x70.png GMB | New Civil Engineer https://www.newcivilengineer.com 32 32 https://www.newcivilengineer.com/wp-content/themes/mbm-mops-2017/images/logo.gif New Civil Engineer https://www.newcivilengineer.com 125 75 Civil engineering and construction news and jobs from New Civil Engineer Sizewell C triggers Development Consent Order, marking formal start of construction https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/sizewell-c-triggers-development-consent-order-marking-formal-start-of-construction-15-01-2024/ https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/sizewell-c-triggers-development-consent-order-marking-formal-start-of-construction-15-01-2024/#respond Mon, 15 Jan 2024 16:47:52 +0000 https://www.newcivilengineer.com/?p=272852 The development of Sizewell C in Suffolk has triggered its development consent order (DCO) paving the way to the formal construction period for the 3.2GW nuclear plant.

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]]> https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/sizewell-c-triggers-development-consent-order-marking-formal-start-of-construction-15-01-2024/feed/ 0 Engineering construction workers in energy sector poised to strike after deal rejection https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/engineering-construction-workers-vote-to-strike-over-pay-07-11-2023/ https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/engineering-construction-workers-vote-to-strike-over-pay-07-11-2023/#respond Tue, 07 Nov 2023 04:00:16 +0000 https://www.newcivilengineer.com/?p=269885 Thousands of construction workers at energy sites across the UK are poised to strike after snubbing an “inadequate” pay deal.

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]]> https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/engineering-construction-workers-vote-to-strike-over-pay-07-11-2023/feed/ 0 Infrastructure workers in Northern Ireland begin seven-day industrial action over pay https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/infrastructure-workers-in-northern-ireland-begin-seven-day-industrial-action-over-pay-20-04-2023/ https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/infrastructure-workers-in-northern-ireland-begin-seven-day-industrial-action-over-pay-20-04-2023/#respond Thu, 20 Apr 2023 13:21:26 +0000 https://www.newcivilengineer.com/?p=259712 Infrastructure workers across a number of sectors in Northern Ireland have begun industrial action over a seven day period over a rejected pay increase that a union referred to as “a slap in the face”.

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]]> https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/infrastructure-workers-in-northern-ireland-begin-seven-day-industrial-action-over-pay-20-04-2023/feed/ 0 Workers threaten to down tools at Drax power plant https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/workers-threaten-to-down-tools-at-drax-power-plant-11-06-2019/ https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/workers-threaten-to-down-tools-at-drax-power-plant-11-06-2019/#respond Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:21:00 +0000 http://www.newcivilengineer.com/uncategorized/workers-threaten-to-down-tools-at-drax-power-plant-11-06-2019/ Hundreds of engineers and plant staff at the Drax biomass energy plant in Yorkshire are threatening strike action.

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]]> https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/workers-threaten-to-down-tools-at-drax-power-plant-11-06-2019/feed/ 0 Scots firms miss out on lucrative UK offshore wind jobs https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/scots-firms-miss-out-on-lucrative-uk-offshore-wind-jobs-08-03-2019/ https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/scots-firms-miss-out-on-lucrative-uk-offshore-wind-jobs-08-03-2019/#comments Fri, 08 Mar 2019 12:44:00 +0000 http://www.newcivilengineer.com/uncategorized/scots-firms-miss-out-on-lucrative-uk-offshore-wind-jobs-08-03-2019/ Scottish engineering firms are missing out on lucrative contracts for UK offshore wind projects because of a lack of government support, trade union bosses have claimed. 

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