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The NHS has reported no issues with a facility that was constructed by Caledonian Modular, but the list of potentially faulty projects from the defunct contractor in both public and private sectors is emerging.

Caledonian Modular was a modular construction company that went into administration in March 2022 under a £20M…

Tunnelling has been completed for the second phase of Singapore’s  S$10bn (£5.8bn) Deep Tunnel Sewerage System (DTSS) project, which will boost the country’s water recycling capacity.

DTSS was conceived in the 1990s, as Singapore’s national water agency Pub was investigating cost-efficient and land-efficient ways to reclaim and recycle water. Prior to…

Researchers at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMIT University) in Australia have revealed that adding used coffee grounds in place of some sand content could make concrete up to 30% stronger.

According to the research team, the technique could not only improve concrete, it could also help divert waste from…

St Helens Borough Council on Merseyside has appointed Mott MacDonald to carry out feasibility studies to reopen the abandoned Sutton Oak line and called for funds for other rail improvements in the area.

The council's deputy leader and cabinet member for strategic transport Seve Gomez-Aspron has written to the Liverpool City…

Jones Bros Civil Engineering UK has broken ground on the £300M North Kyle Wind Farm, an onshore facility in East Ayrshire, Scotland.

The wind farm will host 49 turbines that will have a generating capacity of 220.5MW, enough to power over 160,000 households. The project is being led by Brockwell Energy,…

The sudden closure of a £29M modular-built school in Essex due to structural issues is unlikely to be an indication of flaws with modular construction, the Modular and Portable Building Association (MPBA) has said.

Only three years on from its completion, Sir Frederick Gibberd College in Harlow announced this week that…

The £112M Leeds Flood Alleviation Scheme Phase 2 (LFAS2) is progressing well according to the city’s council as a six month road closure begins today.

Leeds City Council has announced that strengthening works on Apperley Lane bridge will be completed tomorrow before the next phase of the work in the area…

A new study conducted by the University of Birmingham has discovered that low cost sensing technologies can be used to pinpoint and quantify sources of air pollution on construction sites.

Using the High Speed 2 (HS2) construction site at Curzon Street in Birmingham to test the new methodology, the study demonstrates…

Murphy has successfully replaced a faulty Victorian drainage culvert that was causing disruption to the Chiltern branch line in Buckinghamshire before track work to prepare for High Speed 2 (HS2) trains begins.

Working on behalf of Network Rail, Murphy engineers completely dug up the railway by Aylesbury station in order to…

Network Rail will face criminal action at the High Court in Aberdeen on 7 September for its failures leading to the fatal derailment of a train at Carmont in 2020.

The derailment of a train at Carmont, near Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire on 12 August 2020 saw three people fatally killed. The…