One of the biggest challenges for the infrastructure sector is around innovation: how we harness fresh thinking and talent to create a profession which can deliver the complex programmes society needs in a rapidly changing world.
We’re an industry with a proud heritage of engineering feats, but we’ve also advanced to…
Technology can improve productivity and reduce risk in the design, delivery and operation of infrastructure assets. There are many established tools in the market that can help with more effective resource planning, better construction methodologies and improved asset operation and maintenance.
However, it is essential that companies select interoperable solutions and…
Artificial intelligence (AI) tools can help streamline the document production process in construction arbitration, cutting the time it takes to reach a resolution in disputes and the cost involved.
The potential of AI to combat uncontrolled document production was one issue we explored with Lindy Patterson KC, full-time independent arbitrator,…
In the month in which we celebrated International Women in Engineering Day, several female appointments were made in senior roles around the sector.
A round up of the biggest moves and appointments during June follows below. To feature on next month’s appointments roundup email robert.hakimian@emap.com. Andy Lord takes on TfL role…
The construction sector, which for decades has been slow to adopt technology, is now embracing it. Contractors, developers and asset managers are adopting it within their capital projects at a pace not seen previously, leading to advancements in performance, efficiency and certainty.
However, with progress can come problems. As the…
Statutory adjudication is the most popular form of dispute resolution for construction disputes in the UK and is one of the reasons the UK resolves construction disputes more quickly overall than most other jurisdictions.
Lord Justice Coulson recently challenged the perception that adjudication is just another form of dispute resolution,…
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Engineers need to be ready to embrace change when it comes to adopting new technology, according to Keith Bentley who has just retired from the post of chief technology officer at Bentley Systems, the firm he founded with his brother Barry…
London has been pushed out of the top 10 most expensive cities for construction, according to Turner & Townsend's International Construction Market Survey for 2023.
London does remain the most expensive UK city in which to build with an average cost of £3,136/m2, however, the capital has fallen to 14 in the…
After receiving a record-breaking number of entries, the judges for the Inspiring Women in Construction and Engineering Awards have carefully reviewed them all and today revealed the shortlist.
The Inspiring Women in Construction and Engineering programme is jointly organised by NCE and its sister title Construction News in order to bring…
To mark International Women In Engineering Day (Inwed), NCE has sought the views of the female winners from last year's Graduate and Apprentice Awards winners on how the sector can do more to attract women into the industry.
Civil engineering has a significant men to women ratio difference, with only 16% of…
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