Claudio Veritiero, chief operating officer at Kier, explains how our Diversity Report is looking to bring diversity to the forefront of the agenda and drive change to ensure that we attract and retain people from under-represented groups and they thrive at organisations like our own. “It is well-documented that the built environment has an image…
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Successful infrastructure investment requires the understanding and influence of behaviour as much as the development of assets, say Craig McMaster and Garry Sanderson. Environmental upheaval, technological revolution, economic pressures and shifting customer expectations mean the challenge faced by our modern infrastructure sector has never been more complex. In the UK, the need for substantive improvement…
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Sunday 23 June 2019 will mark 2019’s International Women in Engineering Day (#INWED19). The annual campaign day highlights industry transformation through diversity in engineering. The global awareness campaign is coordinated by the Women’s Engineering Society (WES). It increases the profile of women in engineering worldwide and focus attention on the career opportunities available to girls…
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Balfour Beatty has landed a £220m contract from Transport for London (TfL) to deliver London Underground track renewal works. The four-year contract covers all aspects of track renewals including track, points and crossings, and trackside drainage across over 1,047km of the network. Starting in April, with an option to extend the contract for a further…
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Stuart Calvert will be the man responsible for leading Network Rail’s digital transformation programme after David Waboso retires next month. Responsible for boosting the use of digital signalling and train control technologies through the Digital Railway Programme, Waboso has been the man at the helm of ensuring Network Rail embraces and adopts new technology to…
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The Offsite Construction Awards is a celebration of outstanding examples of prefabrication and factory-based methods, products, systems and disciplines that increasingly strive to develop a sustainable, streamlined and cost-effective way to deliver a better built environment. This year, The Offsite Awards have received over 200 entries. Chairman of the Judging Panel, Darren Richards talks about surprising…
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Pairing physical roads, bridges and buildings with a ‘digital twin’ – software or systems that represent them – could be the key to more efficient decision-making, design and maintenance and increased safety We are using data increasingly to help us plan, build and operate our physical infrastructure – such as transport systems or housing. Traffic…
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Before committing to a new approach to building, the government is consulting to understand how prepared the sector is to adapt to this change and support the delivery of this approach. Take part before 17 February The call for evidence will run for 12 weeks, closing on 17 February at 11:45pm. All questions and responses…
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See the images here. With the first trains scheduled to run in just seven years time, preparations are ramping up for the start of Old Oak Common station construction. The organisation say work is currently ongoing to clear the site and prepare the ground as the latest images give commuters an idea of what they…
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More than half of industry leaders have rated rate the country’s digital infrastructure negatively and have urged for steps to be taken to improve levels after putting it at the top of their investment wish list. Research conducted by Ipsos Mori found that bosses from across the top 500 companies by turnover and the top…
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