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  • 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 ...
  • UKCW ROLE MODELS 2019

    01 Apr 2019
    The UK Construction Week Role Models campaign returns! 
  • The Assurance of Going Paperless

    31 Mar 2019 Mark Lisgo
    Does your supply chain operate with the same level of integrity as you do?...are you sure? 
  • Lowest-price tendering is forcing contractors to price their work at unrealistically low levels, which is likely to have serious consequences on the construction industry, according to ICAEW In its Au ...
  • The UK’s biggest water and waste company is pledging to invest up to £1bn in cutting-edge technology over the next six years in a bid to “revolutionise” its operations and to boost efficiency by 20%. ...
  • Heathrow Airport today revealed 18 sites left in the running to become construction hubs for the third runway project. Sites proposed by main contractors Balfour Beatty and John Graham, as well a stee ...
  • Highways England has announced a major roads study to improve road links in East Lancashire and Yorkshire. The £300,000 roads study will look at major improvements on the M65 to improve road connectio ...
  • Construction companies of all sizes are being urged to provide at least one employee with occupational (OH) awareness training following a new report from Loughborough University which highlighted the ...

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