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  • With many city skylines currently dominated by cranes, and ever taller, more outlandish buildings being constructed all across the world, it’s fair to say that the future of construction is being buil ...
  • The Royal Academy of Arts has unveiled a series of installations that show how virtualand augmented reality technologies can change the experience of buildings and spaces. The four installations were ...
  • Build UK and the Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA) have launched the first phase of a new pre-qualification (PQ) system that they claim will cut bureaucracy in the sector. The trade bod ...
  • More than 12,000 new school classrooms need to be built in the next two years to accommodate for the soaring number of primary and secondary pupils in England that are expected, according to the lates ...
  • The Royal Institute of British Architects has issued new guidelines on discrimination as new data shows the gender pay gap remains above 15 per cent at UK architecture firms. Figures for 2018 show tha ...
  • IKEA UK today announces that IKEA Greenwich has achieved an ‘Outstanding’ BREEAM UK New Construction certification, a sustainability rating and accolade held by just 320 buildings around the world.  T ...
  • A £60m aquatic centre which will host events for the 2022 Commonwealth Games has been given the final go-ahead. Wates is tipped to deliver the project and if confirmed would start work on the new Smet ...
  • Eindhoven-based designer Thomas Vailly explores turning sunflower crop waste into bio-materials to make sustainable products from insulation panels to iPhone cases. Thomas Vailly, founder of Studio Th ...
  • Architecture firm BIG has designed a concept for a floating city of 10,000 people that could help populations threatened by extreme weather events and rising sea levels. BIG founder Bjarke Ingels unve ...
  • A team featuring Chicago architect Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the European Space Agency (ESA), have released a concept design for a vill ...
  • Inspire Insurance has received the People Excellence award at FirstPro 2019, after displaying significant commitment to the development of professional talent within their business.
  • Researchers from RGU’s Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Built Environment are conducting a research project into an innovative housing construction method which could help to bring down the ...
  • Aberdeen is to become one of the first cities in Scotland to install an intelligent lighting system which can be controlled, dimmed and remotely monitor faults. A total of 3,500 controllers are to be ...
  • Power infrastructure specialist Gridserve has unveiled plans for a £1bn network of rapid charging forecourts for electric vehicles. The UK-wide network of more than 100 Electric Forecourts will allow ...
  • The long-awaited Tottenham Hotspur Stadium has opened in north London, featuring a retractable pitch that can host both Premier League football matches and American football. Built on the site of Tott ...
  • Rare plants, exotic flowers, towering trees – Kew Gardens provides the most unusual of construction sites for Graham on its £50m framework. Stephen Cousins reports. “To come out here, on a day like th ...
  • The upgrade of London Waterloo station has included constructing a steel infill roof to link the former international terminal with the main concourse. CMreports on a tricky engineering challenge. Bri ...
  • The City of London Corporation has approved a planning application from Foster + Partners for the tallest tower in the Square Mile. The team behind the Gherkin plan to build “The Tulip” next door on B ...
  • Artist JR has created a giant 3D optical illusion from paper that imagines the iconic pyramid at the Musée du Louvre in Paris continuing underground, but it has already been destroyed. Named The Secre ...
  • Snøhetta has revealed visuals for a major new opera house in China, featuring a spiralling stepped roof that will connect the upper levels of the building with a riverside plaza. The architecture and ...
  • Architect Alejandro Soffia pieced together a series of modules and covered them in bright yellow corrugated panels to form this prefabricated woodland residence in Pucón, Chile. Yellow House is built ...
  • Following an intensive programme to develop a forecasting model specifically aligned to the UK merchant sector, the Builders Merchants Federation (BMF) has published the first edition of the Builders ...
  • A regeneration development in Vauxhall by the Ballymore Group has seen the biggest transformation story London has ever seen. It has added an entirely new urban quarter to London. 
  • About Aggregate Industries   Aggregate Industries is a leading player in the construction and infrastructure industries. It produces and supplies a wide range of construction materials including aggre ...

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