£500m funding to bring back historic rail linesThe Government has pledged to spend £500m reopening old railway connections in a move to roll back the Beeching era of cuts to the network.
The benefits of reversing the Beeching cuts have already been seen. In 2015, a £10m project restored ‘Todmorden Curve’ enabling direct services from Burnley and Accrington to…
What is the value of apprentices in construction?It’s been a concern for a while that the construction
industry doesn’t have enough skilled workers. City & Guilds found that 87%
of employers were already finding it difficult to recruit the necessary number
of skilled workers last year and, Construction News reported that official
figures show 12.6% of UK construction
workers com…
Trade body webinar sets out best practice in structural waterproofing for podium decksA
national trade body has produced a webinar to support architects and building
professionals with the challenges of waterproofing podium decks.
While
the construction of podium decks has been around for some time, the use of a
basement roof structure to extend beyond the building line and under gardens
has…
Late Payments Can Cripple Commercial Electrical Contractors: Here Are Some Tips On How To Get Paid PromptlyWith late payments costing SMEs across the UK thousands of
pounds to collect, and the total amount owed to small and medium sized
enterprises across the country now totally £23.4
billion, it’s clear that this is a serious issue that needs to be
addressed.
This is particularly…
SOFiSTiK Seminar on March 27 and 28 in Munich: International Conference for Civil and Structural Engineers on new Developments and Recent Projects in the Construction Industry.SOFiSTiK
Seminar on March 27 and 28 in Munich: International Conference for Civil and
Structural Engineers on new Developments and Recent Projects in the
Construction Industry.
Key topics:
design and analysis for…
SOFiSTiK Seminar on March 27 and 28 in Munich: International Conference for Civil and Structural Engineers on new Developments and Recent Projects in the Construction Industry. Key topics: design and analysis for bridges, buildings, and infrastructurePresentations by Werner Sobek AG, Royal HaskoningDHV, FINLEY Engineering Group, and more The 2020 SOFiSTiK Seminar on March 27 and 28 is guided by the theme Connecting People. Oberschleißheim, January 21, 2020 —- The construction software company SOFiSTiK will be hosting the 2020 SOFiSTiK Seminar at the Leonardo Royal Hotel in Munich, Germany on March 27 and 28. This international conference for professionals is recognized as one of the major events for construction engineers in German-speaking countries and will cover topics such as design, analysis, and engineering. In keeping with this year’s theme Connecting People, structural …
Eco-friendly hotelWithin the next 20
years, our planet could reach the peak regarding oil consumption. What’s more
worrying is that the demand for oil continues to grow year upon year as the
global production of oil appears to decrease.
This ever-growing
problem will impact the way that hotels are constructed in the future, and how
eco-friendly strategies can benefit hotels in terms of…
Top Winchester Plumbing Tips For Construction SitesConstruction sites need to be created and maintained with
much security. One failure can result in severe problems or even perhaps
irreversible damage. For people working around the construction sites, every
day can be a new myriad of possibilities that’s a mix of rewarding and
frustrating feelings. Every little progress in construction is a…
BricsCAD® BIM supports the BIMcollab issue management ecosystemEindhoven – Bricsys®
and BIMcollab are delighted to announce the integration of the BIMcollab BIM
Collaboration Format (BCF) Application Programming Interface (API) into
BricsCAD® BIM V20. A new BCF panel in the BricsCAD BIM product lets users
connect to the BIMcollab platform through this open API. The connected…
ENGIE joins Midland Metropolitan Hospital project
Leading energy and services
specialist, ENGIE, is playing a key role in developing the new £475 million
Midland Metropolitan Hospital in Smethwick in the West Midlands.
Work will now re-commence
following two years of delays due to the collapse of Carillion, with the
project now set to be completed by Balfour Beatty.
Sandwell and…