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The Chartered Institute of Building | June 15, 2020

Covid-19 testing stations would ensure any outbreaks are tracked and traced as quickly as possible, enabling construction to bounce back quickly and safely. The CIOB’s proposal to integrate major British construction sites into the recently launched NHS Test and Trace system, to enable the regular testing of workers without risking further transmission of the virus, comes in the institute’s recent submission to a consultation on Covid-19 recovery by the Business, Energ...

Phys.org | January 17, 2020

Climate engineering may offer a last-ditch technological solution to catastrophic climate change, but who makes the decisions on which solutions to implement, and who the beneficiaries will be? Once we start fiddling with the Earth's fundamental processes, where will it end? Schalk Mouton asks Professor Bob Scholes. Climate engineering, formerly known as geoengineering, are big-scale technological solutions to fight climate change if we fail in doing the obvious thing, which is to urgently a...

PBC Today | January 30, 2020

The Modular & Portable Building Association chief executive Jackie Maginnis discusses the offsite arena and examines the uptake in modular construction. As an optimum building technique for timber, steel and concrete designs – volumetric modular construction is at the forefront of offsite techniques, making up 60-70% of the market. These solutions arguably form a modern method of construction that is experiencing entirely different growth trends to that of other offsite approaches. Des...

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AECOM | November 25, 2021

AECOM (NYSE: ACM), the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, announced it has won places on over 30 Lots of the Transport for London (TfL) Engineering Consultancy Framework (ECF), including places on the strategic Multidisciplinary Engineering Services and Multidisciplinary Rail Engineering Services Lots. The four-year framework will be the primary means of accessing engineering consultancy services for TfL, the Greater London Authority, all 32 London borough councils and the Cit...