Articles by Neil Gerrard

Chinese OEMs capitalise on dramatic rise in demand for construction equipment in Turkey
Published on: 15 November, 2024
Chinese construction manufacturers major beneficiaries of soaring demand for construction equipment in Turkey, report finds
Weekly Quiz: The Line appointments, mammouth concrete pour, new Bobcat feature
Published on: 14 November, 2024
Test your knowledge with Construction Briefing’s fiendishly difficult weekly quiz
Ferrovial offloads its stake in UK airports in £1.5bn deal
Published on: 13 November, 2024
Sale of three UK airports follows sale of stake in Heathrow last year
Vinci to design and build €100m+ waste-to-energy plant in France
Published on: 13 November, 2024
New facility will replace older plant
Trump 2.0 short-term good for construction but brings labour and housing risks, say economists
Published on: 13 November, 2024
Oxford Economics assesses potential impact of new Trump administration on global construction
City design and engineering partners appointed for Saudi Arabia’s The Line
Published on: 12 November, 2024
Trio to deliver core city planning, design and engineering for the first phase of Saudi Arabia’s linear city
Images | Construction of world’s longest cable-stayed bridge nears completion
Published on: 12 November, 2024
Changtai Yangtze River Bridge set to open next year
Why Fluor sees good news in Trump and data centre ‘sweet spot’
Published on: 11 November, 2024
Five things we learned from Fluor’s Q3 2024 earnings call 
Brazil opts not to join China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Published on: 11 November, 2024
News comes ahead of state visit to Brazil by China’s President Xi Jinping
Interest rates are falling. So why is European construction still in the doldrums?
Published on: 11 November, 2024
The European Central Bank cut rates in September but so far there is little cheer in construction
UK and US continue interest rate cuts but sound caution on pace of reductions
Published on: 08 November, 2024
Both the Federal Reserve in the US and the Bank of England have cut key interest rates but have sounded caution over the pace of further reductions.
Weekly Quiz: What does the world’s first ‘smart’ hard hat do?
Published on: 08 November, 2024
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Eiffage bags contract for one of France’s biggest public investments in a decade
Published on: 07 November, 2024
Eiffage lead contractor on Grand Paris Nord campus project in Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, France
Two firms in pole position to build Rikers Island replacement jail
Published on: 06 November, 2024
Tutor Perini leads joint venture to build one of four new NYC jails
‘You’re only supposed to blow the tunnel up’: ‘Green’ explosive cuts CO2 emissions
Published on: 05 November, 2024
Nitrate-free, biodegradable explosive for tunnel blasting reduces CO2 emissions and improves water and air quality
‘World first’ smart hard hat can detect impacts and falls
Published on: 05 November, 2024
A new smart safety helmet that its manufacturers claim is a ‘world first’ can detect falls and impacts and automatically call for help
The 9 regions of the world where construction workers report never having OSH training
Published on: 05 November, 2024
Wide-ranging survey examines how much health and safety training construction workers receive globally
Construction of Denmark’s largest offshore wind farm gets go-ahead
Published on: 04 November, 2024
The Danish Energy Agency has granted German company RWE an offshore construction permit for what will become Denmark’s largest offshore wind farm
Replacement of dangerous cladding lags behind schedule
Published on: 04 November, 2024
National Audit Office assesses progress of cladding remediation programme in wake of Grenfell fire
$54m loan for Mozambique’s first wind farm approved
Published on: 04 November, 2024
The African Development Bank has approved a $54 million loan for the construction of Mozambique’s first onshore wind farm
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