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Ferrovial Construction UK is like a “family organisation” according to managing director Karl Goose. It might seem hard to believe, given the company, formerly Ferrovial Agroman, is part of multi-national conglomerate Ferrovial, the Spanish behemoth that owns some of the world’s largest airports, including Heathrow, and employs more than 18,500…

Reaction has swiftly followed chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Autumn Budget announcement – Construction News takes a look at how the industry is responding. Refresh to update.

Building safety Addleshaw Goddard partner Peter Hardy: “The levy on developers with profit of more than £25m to help pay for cladding will need to be…

There is less than a year to go until the starting guns are fired at the Commonwealth Games, but the related building work will be a marathon effort, not a sprint. Mark Smulian speaks to Birmingham City Council on what it is delivering, and what it expects from its contractors

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Exclusive: a joint initiative between industry and government is developing ways to make transport projects safer, greener and more efficient. Ian Weinfass reports

A world in which fewer people worked on our roads would see fewer deaths and injuries of highways workers. And if electricians on rail lines were able to…

Stuart Murphy is the founder of tidal power research firm TPGen24 As Construction News reported in March, the Welsh Government has revived its interest in tidal energy solutions. The call for involvement towards establishing a consortium to explore the resource in more depth closed a few weeks ago, and this…

150 years ago, in 1871, the first edition of Construction News was published. To help mark the anniversary, four past editors reflect on their own spell in charge of CN

Tom Fitzpatrick joined Construction News in 2011 and served as editor from 2017 to 2019. He has since returned to…

With up to 150 different roles employed on the Somerset site, Greg Pitcher speaks to EDF’s skills lead on how the Hinkley Point C build will set up a pipeline of training that should benefit the construction industry for years to come

“For sure it was a big challenge,” says Helen…

With the government having spent billions on the coronavirus response, the pressure on megaprojects to deliver value has never been greater. Megan Kelly examines the influence of schemes such as HS2 and Crossrail, and asks how best to budget in a post-pandemic world

“The poor old contractors get killed over expenditure,”…

Hinkley Point C is often billed as Europe’s largest building site. The mammoth undertaking to build a pair of nuclear reactors involves an enormous number of key steps along a narrow critical path, with safety and quality paramount throughout. German specialist Kaefer is one of the many tier two contractors…

Some huge projects are due to hit critical milestones in the new year, as coronavirus, social distancing and Brexit continue to dominate the delivery of construction projects in 2021. Here’s our run-down of the big ones to watch.

1) Forest Green Rovers stadium – a timber revolution? Gloucestershire-based Forest Green…