5+ hour, 39+ min ago   (475+ words) Bristol Myers Squibb has confirmed plans to construct a US$2.3bn manufacturing campus in Houston, Texas. The facility will form part of the company's broader US$40bn investment programme across US research, development, technology and domestic manufacturing over five years. The project…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (553+ words) Vestas has fitted the UK's most powerful onshore wind turbine to date, a 6.2MW EnVentus machine, at the site in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The machine is the first of 44 units due to be erected across the 308MW project. Once complete, Sanquhar…...

4+ day, 33+ min ago   (945+ words) Construction drones are unmanned aircraft used to capture aerial imagery, measurements and sensor data across a building or infrastructure project. Today, teams use drones to map land, calculate stockpile volumes, compare as-built work with plans, monitor progress and inspect hazardous…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (471+ words) UK-focused infrastructure and engineering firm FM Conway has showcased sustainable road construction on the M4, one of the UK’s busiest motorways. In a first-of-its-kind project, FM Conway reduced emissions from the project by 630 tonnes of CO2e - equal to around half of the…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago   (812+ words) EDF and the UK Government have agreed to extend operations at Sizewell B nuclear power station until 2055. The facility had been scheduled to close in 2035 after a standard 40-year operational period. The agreement includes a fixed, subsidised price for electricity…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (471+ words) France’s public delivery authority responsible for planning the infrastructure for the 2030 Winter Olympics has selected the consortium led by Bouygues Immobilier to create the next village for the games. Construction is slated to begin in 2027 on the site which is…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (527+ words) The construction industry’s labour crunch is opening the door to a new kind of subcontractor: robots. Amsterdam-based Monumental, has raised US$32m in Series B funding to expand its autonomous bricklaying systems and prepare for a US launch, with backing led…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (173+ words) As equipment becomes more autonomous, accurate positioning is essential for everything from fleet management to machine control. The paper highlights growing demand for precise positioning technologies, noting that 82% of organisations either use or plan to implement real-time data processing, while…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (459+ words) Historically, the construction industry is known as a slow adopter of new technology. However, this truth is now jarring with another: output is not meeting demand. McKinsey & Company has found that construction output may fail to meet demand by up…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (529+ words) Turner has reached a milestone in the construction of the Hudson Valley Community College's (HVCC’s) Applied Technology Education Center. The US-based construction giant celebrated the topping out of the Applied Technology Education Center which marks the completion of the building’s…...