Post-pandemic design of the future
How COVID-19 will change office, hotel and mixed-use design As the U.S. enters the mass vaccination phase of the novel coronavirus pandemic, the physical threat of COVID-19 could soon be...
Author: Brenda Templeton
UK’s Mace Construction achieves net zero carbon emissions in 2020
Aided by an inability to undertake much business travel during the year, construction group Mace has declared itself to have been a net zero carbon business in 2020. Mace reduced...
VIC Government announces $9M hazardous waste facility
A new hazardous waste recycling facility with the capacity to process a third of the Victoria’s solvent waste each year will be built in Dandenong. According to Environment Minister Lily...
Testing electricity poles with ‘Thor’s hammer’
Trials are to be carried out of a system that assesses the stability of electricity poles by hitting them with a hammer and measuring the resulting vibrations. SP Energy Networks...
Eurozone’s downturn in construction continues
The findings came in the latest IHS Markit Eurozone Construction Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI). which is compiled by IHS Markit from responses to questionnaires sent to purchasing managers in a...
Ferrovial in collaboration to develop ‘roads of the future’
Ferrovial is to collaborate with companies including Microsoft and 3M to target the development of ‘roads of the future’. The AIVIA Orchestrated Connected Corridors initiative will develop smart roads and...
Scotland launches awareness campaign on isolating safely during electrical work
Scottish trade association Select has launched an awareness campaign stressing the fatal consequences of not isolating safely during electrical work. Running under the banner ‘Work dead safely: Stay alive’, the...
Maryvale Waste to Energy (WtE) Project
Citywide enters MoU for Maryvale WtE project Citywide has entered into a memorandum of understanding to explore participation in a waste-to-energy (WtE) facility in Victoria, following the signing of an agreement...
Gender pay gap widens in the Construction industry
The construction industry now has the second highest gender pay gap, according to results from the Workplace Gender Equality Agency’s (WEGA) 2019-20 report. The construction industry was found to have...
Recycling oven makes asbestos safe to reuse
Wolverhampton-based Thermal Recycling has opened what is claimed to be “the world’s first socially and environmentally responsible alternative to asbestos disposal”. It is claimed that the chemical and physical composition...