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Rhino Doors, the UK’s leading designer and manufacturer of high performance engineered doors, has won a new contract valued at over £1 million to design, supply and install bespoke fire doors for London’s Bank Station Capacity Upgrade Project. Working alongside leading engineering and construction contractor Dragados S.A, Rhino will install...

There is nothing like testing out the real thing. So, this year at World of Concrete put your hands on the most intuitive, user-friendly technology applications available for volumetric concrete mixers. Throughout the annual event, Cemen Tech will be...

Graphene specialists at The University of Manchester and Nationwide Engineering have developed graphene-enhanced concrete to revolutionise the concrete industry. In a world-first for the sector, the team has laid the floor slab of a new gym in Amesbury, Wiltshire with...

The global health crisis caused by the Covid-19 outbreak has dragged down investment in the Cambodian construction sector, which had shown positive signs for several years in a row. Last year, the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction...

Nigeria’s construction industry is due to grow by 3.9% in 2021 after a 7.7% decline in 2021, according to economic analyst GlobalData. The fall was caused by Covid-19 restrictions and a drop in demand for oil and gas, which...

Scotland-based architect Kettle Collective has unveiled its design for a spiralling 703m tower for St Petersburg, Russia that would be the second highest skyscraper in the world next to Dubai’s Burj Khalifa (828m). Although the Burj is taller, this tower,...

Tampere University in southern Finland is working with Swedish contractor Skanska, demolition firm Umacon and precast concrete company Consolis Parma to develop a form of reusable concrete. The team are working on a way to extract concrete elements from buildings...