Royal Bam has appointed John Wilkinson as new chief operating officer for civil engineering. The Dutch multinational parent company of Bam Construct and Bam Nuttall announced that the former Kier executive director of services and Laing O’Rourke managing director of UK services will take up…

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Capital Land Property Group has been granted planning permission for a new 1,550-home development in Swindon, Wiltshire, in an area of regeneration known as the New Eastern Villages. The scheme will see the creation of a mix of two, three, four and five-bedroom homes as well…

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Five months after the initial nationwide shutdowns and we’re still, unfortunately, in the middle of the Coronavirus Pandemic. What we know about the virus differs greatly since day 1 and continues to evolve over time, so it’s important to continually recalibrate your efforts to keep your employees and your jobsite safe and healthy.

Listed below are ConstructConnect’s Hot Commercial Construction Projects for the week of August 10 – 14, 2020. Our Hot Projects showcases three currently bidding or sub-bidding projects from all 50 states and the District of Columbia pulled from our extensive database of construction leads.

There are some pretty cool ways to get to remote and difficult to navigate jobsites, like helicopters and this blimp-like aircraft, but I’ve never seen something quite as relatively affordable and attainable as the Fat Truck.

Here’s a quick rundown of this week’s top news and happenings in the construction industry. Each week, we’ll take a look at some of the interesting local, regional, and national stories about construction to keep you better informed of the goings-on in the industry.

Keeping construction workers safe on the job can be challenging at the best of times, but it’s a task that most supervisors and construction managers are capable of handling.

Engineers in Victoria are being asked for feedback about the proposed registration scheme for engineers in that state.

Dwelling commencements throughout Australia will drop by 40 percent over three years as what were already slowing conditions are now being exacerbated by COVID, the latest forecast suggests.

Almost all new highway and road widening projects are ‘sold’ to the public as a means of reducing, or ‘busting’, traffic congestion. In reality, new or wider roads mean more traffic.