Articles by Neil Gerrard
Published on: 15 July, 2024
The price of construction materials in the US fell by 0.3% but remain higher than they were a year ago
Published on: 15 July, 2024
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Elecosoft head of innovation Mark Chapman on what a 30-year civil engineering career has shown him about causes of project failures
Published on: 12 July, 2024
Skanska is to receive an extra £50 million (US$64.7 million) under its existing contract for the HS2 high-speed railway, as part of the Skanska Costain Strabag joint venture
Published on: 12 July, 2024
Swiss construction company Implenia is set to build a section of the “West Link” transportation scheme in Gothenberg, Sweden, including a railway tunnel and station
Published on: 11 July, 2024
A consortium of contractors is in pole position to undertake the second tunnelling contract for the Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) East in Melbourne, Australia
Published on: 11 July, 2024
Skanska has won a contract with the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) to replace the Livingstone Avenue Bridge in Albany, New York, USA
Published on: 11 July, 2024
The Construction Briefing weekly quiz for 12 July 2024
Published on: 10 July, 2024
Contractor BAM has completed the restoration of a 32-year-old runway in the Antarctic as construction winds down at the end of the austral summer season
Published on: 10 July, 2024
A man has pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy and three charges of obstruction in relation to an investigation into the workplace death of a construction worker
Published on: 10 July, 2024
Construction’s much-heralded transformation is taking longer to arrive than many would have liked - but the Laing O’Rourke Centre has a plan for change
Published on: 09 July, 2024
This month has seen the publication of a brand-new report from Off-Highway Research that examines the state of the nascent global electric construction equipment industry
Published on: 08 July, 2024
Average hourly earnings for production and nonsupervisory employees in US construction has jumped by 4.6% over the year to reach $35.64 an hour
Published on: 08 July, 2024
The UK’s new government is to re-establish annual targets for the number of new homes built in the country, as it also pledged to overhaul planning rules
Published on: 05 July, 2024
A music venue and hospitality company has won final approval to build an $80 million outdoor music venue in El Paso, Texas, USA
Published on: 05 July, 2024
A robot has helped Spanish infrastructure firm Acciona to build partition walls on a hospital project in Portugal six times faster than normal
Published on: 05 July, 2024
As Europe’s largest economy, Germany is renowned for having first-class infrastructure but even in one of the region’s wealthiest countries, the bridges are crumbling
Published on: 04 July, 2024
Missing screw and nut assemblies were the cause of a construction hoist collapse that killed five construction workers in Sweden last year
Published on: 04 July, 2024
Construction Briefing’s weekly news quiz
Published on: 03 July, 2024
An association that claims to represent 1,200 union contractors in New York, US, has called for the City of New York to include mental wellness within the training construction workers receive
Published on: 02 July, 2024
Engineering consultant Jacobs has won a deal with Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies to support the delivery of a $1.2 billion expansion of a biotechnology facility in Holly Springs, North Carolina, USA