Aecom is to cut up to 500 jobs in the UK and Ireland as a result of the coronavirus crisis. The consultant announced the redundancies, which will form part of a restructure, just two days after the sudden departure of chief executive David Barwell and…

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Imtech’s revenue has jumped to £460m in 2019 and the company is targeting a £600m turnover by 2022. Revenue for the M&E specialist, which was acquired by EDF in June 2017, was boosted after it started work on the £22bn Hinkley Point C nuclear power…

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John Sisk & Son’s turnover increased by almost £100m to £417.9m for the year to 31 December 2019 (2018: £323.2m). The Irish-headquartered firm offered no explanation for the growth in its UK accounts, published on Companies House this week. Sisk reported a £5m pre-tax profit (2018: £3.19m) keeping…

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A photo is worth a thousand words, they say, so a 360 degree photo with a powerful artificial intelligence system behind it must be worth, at least, 1 million words…I assume, the powers that be haven’t really decided on that number yet, Regardless, OpenSpace.ai is turning your thousand word pictures into millions of valuable data points to help better track your project’s progress.

As we are all embracing the new digital transformation that this current pandemic is bringing in our daily life. Will this be enough to finally drive the much-needed digital transformation in the construction industry? I certainly do feel unsettled without my international lifestyle, hopping from one industry event to another. I am very sympathetic to […]

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Listed below are ConstructConnect’s Hot Commercial Construction Projects for the week of July 27 – 31, 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.

The heroic efforts and achievements of master architect, Paul Revere Williams

I was recently interviewed by Fabian Saverimuttu, Business Development Consultant specializing in AEC & Manufacturing. We discussed the impact of Covid-19 on the construction industry, what is needed to survive, and forecast what the future will look like for this sector. FS: It’s been about 18 months since our last interview. How have you been […]

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In 2016, it was discovered that San Francisco’s Millennium Tower, a $350 million, 58-story luxury condo was sinking and tilting. From the most recent count, the tower had sunk 18 inches and leaned 4 inches – doesn’t sound like luxury to me. After several rounds of fix designs, lawsuits, and cracked windows, it is believed that the fixes will begin this fall.

Granlund shows how an established company can be an innovator, year after year. The construction industry in Finland has been thriving over the last couple of years. “Business is going so well now that there’s a danger of complacency,” says Pekka Metsi, CEO of Granlund. “I see too little organized innovation taking place within the […]

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