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Damage to historic building halts work on Taipei stadium
Taipei city government has ordered the suspension of work on the new baseball stadium because of damage to adjacent foundations and concerns about the MTR line. The city government in Taiwan’s capital said that a neighbouring...
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Lend Lease becomes Lendlease
Lend Lease has changed its name to Landlease and has a new-look logo, described as “a design for the future”. Lendlease group CEO and managing director Steve McCann said: "We have emerged out of our...
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RICS launches diversity initiative
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) is launching a scheme to promote diversity among employers. Any construction company can qualify for the RICS Inclusive Employer Quality Mark by demonstrating a commitment to recruiting and...
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£500m Welsh framework winners listed
A raft of contractors, including Kier, BAM, Willmott Dixon and Morgan Sindall, has been named for a £500m framework for local authority construction projects in Wales. The full list of the firms chosen for...
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Contracts awarded for Nova Scotia tidal array
Aecon Group and Lengkeek Vessel Engineering have won contracts worth CA$25m (£12.7m) as part of the first round of procurement for the Cape Sharp Tidal project. The project aims to deliver one of the...
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Australia’s first infrastructure audit heralds construction bonanza
Australia’s first national audit on infrastructure has highlighted the need to spend billions more dollars on improving road and transport networks. Last year, the Commonwealth government embarked upon the biggest infrastructure programme in the...
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Glasgow tenders £70m Sighthill civils work
Glasgow City Council has gone out to tender with a £70m infrastructure contract for one of its flagship regeneration projects. Glasgow’s masterplan for the Sighthill transformational regeneration area (TRA) envisages a £250m urban regeneration...
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