News

Nick Armstrong, a manager with Fugro’s site characterisation and geoconsulting business, has been appointed honorary secretary of the British Geotechnical Association....

HS2 Andrew McNaughton, chief engineer on the £56bn HS2 project form the outset, is stepping aside from his role as technical director and moving into a part-time advisory role....

Mick George’s site preparation works for a new ice rink in Cambridge were briefly stalled this week by the discovery of unexploded Second World War grenades....

Process engineering contractor Western Thermal has taken over pipework specialist Henderson Site Services...

Construction consultant John Rowan & Partners has named Mash Halai as its new chairman....

The board of shopping centre developer Intu has agreed to a £3.4bn takeover offer from Hammerson....

The government has announced the creation of a new Transport Infrastructure Efficiency Taskforce to promote best practice in procurement....

House buyers are twice as likely to be satisfied with homes built by a small building company than by one of the majors, new research suggests....

Pembrokeshire haulage, civil engineering and aggregates contractor GD Harries has supplied 15,000 tonnes of granite to the Hinkley Point C nuclear reactor in Somerset....

Three industry associations have thrown their weight behind a backbench MP’s attempt to reform construction’s use of cash retentions, despite it being unlikely to succeed....