Skills is becoming increasingly important across global construction, infrastructure and industrial technology, influencing how projects are visualised, coordinated, delivered and managed over time.
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From planning and design to field execution and asset management, this topic sits at the centre of digital change across the built environment, helping teams improve visibility, accuracy, coordination and long-term performance.
Quarry & Mining Month: Week Four | January 2026 In a remote control centre far from any pit, a young technician monitors drilling data on multiple screens as autonom...
The highways sector has long wrestled with a familiar challenge: finding enough wellβtrained people to keep pace with the expanding and increasingly complex demands place...
The construction industry across Southeast Asia is undergoing a transformation like no other. As digital technology and sustainability reshape the way buildings are desig...
The Operator Challenge is roaring back into the spotlight at PlantWorx 2025, promising to be bigger, bolder, and even more exhilarating. Set to take place from 24-26 June...
Thereβs something stirring in the heart of the East Midlands. From 23 to 25 September 2025, Newark Showground will be transformed into a hub of innovation, teamwork and y...
Marking its remarkable centennial, Caterpillar Inc., the global giant in construction and mining equipment manufacturing, has announced an ambitious $100 million pledge a...
Itβs no secret that UK engineering and manufacturing are suffering a massive skills shortage. While open positions remain unfilled in many sectors, a report byΒ Search Con...
Mechanical engineers make things work the way they are supposed to work, and they are inventors and innovators. They design and develop valuable technologies and machiner...
With employers looking to develop and improve the soft skills of their employees, nearly 300 of the 2020 Fortune 500 companies now offer in-house Toastmasters clubs to he...
By 2022, an operational stock of almost 4 million industrial robots are expected to work in factories worldwide. These robots will play a vital role in automating product...
Association for Project Management (APM) has launched the final paper in its Projecting the Future series titled The Future of Work and Skills, to help address challenges...
Rio Tinto will work with leaders in Australiaβs education and innovation sectors in a new, disruptive approach designed to tackle a looming skills gap in the nationβs fut...
New for Plantworx 2019 (11-13 June East of England Arena Peterborough) is the Get SET Zone, located in the indoor arena, which is designed to help visitors and exhibitors...
Commitments welcomed by the Chair of the Heathrow Skills Taskforce Lord Blunkett, Baroness Sugg, trade union representatives and local students at launch event Heathrow h...
Following the Prime Ministerβs announcement that Government is set to reform the Apprenticeship Levy, Balfour Beatty today publishes its latest paper βBuilding the future...
Article by Solicitors Kara Price and Sarah Wales from law firm Womble Bond Dickinson The construction sector is in the grips of a skills shortage which is limiting constr...
Ringway Hounslow Highways has given local school students a taste of the workplace by teaming up with an award-winning social enterprise that aims to give pupils the skil...
Balfour Beatty is continuing its efforts to bridge the industryβs skills shortage through its collaboration with Scape Group, the public sector owned built environment sp...
Tarmac has launched a new partnership with The Duke of Edinburgh Awards (DofE), the UKβs leading youth charity, to enable more young people to better their life prospects...
Following on from discussing the challenges and solutions in building a sustainable skills base in the nuclear sector, Balfour Beatty today presents fourteen key points i...
Balfour Beatty revealed the results of recent research into the views of its UK supply chain partners in the companyβs latest paper – βChain Reactions: A View from...
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