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Meet the man overseeing Balfour Beatty’s multimillion-pound plan to harness AI to drive a ‘productivity revolution’

There were 24,590 new construction apprentices taken on in 2024/25, the first annual rise in three years, according to a report from professional tool supplier Protrade. At the same time, it was a record year for women beginning apprenticeships in the sector, with a 9 per cent rise on the…

Costain chief executive Alex Vaughan has little time for doom-laden narratives about the state of UK construction. Sitting down with Construction News shortly before Christmas at the firm’s offices in the distinctive ‘Can of Ham’ building in the City of London, he acknowledges the challenges facing the sector but remains…

Danny Nelson, board member and managing director at Winvic, says data centres will form a fourth pillar of his firm’s strategy

Charlie Pugsley on clearing backlogs, improving transparency – and why his emergency service background matters

After 18 months as NG Bailey’s chief executive, Jonathan Stockton’s strategy is paying off

Caddick’s managing director Paul Dodsworth can look back on a 42-year career working for some of the biggest names in construction

Despite slow progress on ethnic diversity in the industry, Amos Simbo remains optimistic

Wayne Connolly’s earliest memories are of a cramped terraced house in Didsbury, Manchester. The Connolly Scaffolding boss grew up in the 1980s in a large Irish family, with no hot water, an outside toilet and a bedroom carved out of a bathroom. “I came from a very poor home,” he…

Under executive director of construction Kim Sides, Bam UK & Ireland is consciously reining itself in when it comes to chasing turnover