In the latest episode of the 21CC podcast, three leaders of successful megaprojects delve into the nitty gritty of what it takes to lead them. On the panel are: • Jake Mumm, head of Bechtel’s global Public Infrastructure division, whose projects include the Keeyask hydropower project in northern Canada, and the new metro system for Riyadh, Saudi Ar…

Veteran plant journalist Peter Haddock is with us this month to help make sense of the rapidly changing landscape of construction machinery and sustainability. Should we go all in on electrification?Is hydrogen coming on stream anytime soon? What’s the current state of enabling technology? Peter shares examples of how businesses including Flannery …

Following World Environment Day 2024, we dig into a complex and difficult question. Construction is the single biggest source of greenhouse gases. It produces vast amounts of waste. The resource extraction needed to feed its demands puts enormous pressure on habitats and biodiversity. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of buildings stand empty, even …

Building Saudi’s Red Sea high-end tourist giga-project [01:04 ]From bare sand to a collection of 50 separate resorts with its own international airport on Saudi Arabia’s remote west coast, The Red Sea giga-project is a high-end tourism scheme like no other. We speak to Andrew Tyson, head of construction at Red Sea Global, who’s in charge of bringin…

Robotic micro-factories for housebuilding? [00:25] High-tech companies down through the years have often seen construction as a tantalising frontier, ripe for disruption by new ways of putting things together. Now, the Swiss multinational manufacturer ABB has entered the fray, with an idea for building affordable housing using robots at site-based …

Happy Birthday, CIOB! Three young professionals look ahead [01:00] To celebrate the 190th anniversary of the founding of the Chartered Institute of Building, we speak to three young CIOB people from around the world – members of the Tomorrow’s Leaders network – about the one thing they’d like to change about the industry and how the CIOB can help w…

Crushed by a horse, now crushing prejudice [00:32] Elite Australian athlete Hacia Atherton spent seven months in hospital recovering from a near-fatal accident in 2017. She was told she may never walk again, but she was having none of it. It took many months after leaving hospital, but she fought the pain and self-doubt to get back on her feet. In …

The home of great construction stories. We go behind the headlines to meet the people who envision, create and manage the built world. Brought to you by the Chartered Institute of Building. Got a topic you'd like us to cover? Email the podcast editor Rod Sweet rod@atompublishing.co.uk In this episode: New-homes confidence crisis [01:20] In December…

The home of great construction stories. We go behind the headlines to meet the people who envision, create and manage the built world. Brought to you by the Chartered Institute of Building. In this episode: Refugees building Britain [00:50] Yemeni refugee Omar tells Cristina Lago how important his construction job is. Jargon Buster [16:27] What exa…

The home of great construction stories. We go behind the headlines to meet the people who envision, create and manage the built world. Brought to you by the Chartered Institute of Building. This episode: [01:25] Abbi Taylor describes what happened after her dad broke his back falling from a ladder on a construction site when she was three. [09:16] …

The home of great construction stories. We go behind the headlines to meet the people who envision, create and manage the built world. Brought to you by the Chartered Institute of Building. In this episode, CM’s Cristina Lago grills ex-Arup engineer Stevan Lukic about the AI chatbot he developed for construction projects. Does it hallucinate? [01:2…

Welcome to the fourth episode of the 21CC Podcast, brought to you by the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB). The home of great construction stories. We go behind the headlines to meet the people who envision, create and manage the built world. This episode, Will Mann reports on an AI tool developed to detect RAAC in buildings[11:38]; Rod Sweet …

Welcome to the third episode of the 21CC podcast, brought to you by the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB). The home of great construction stories. We go behind the headlines to meet the people who envision, create and manage the built world. This episode we explore why a line is the worst possible layout for a planned new city in the desert [0…

Welcome to the second episode of the 21CC podcast, brought to you by the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB).21CC is short for 21st Century Construction, which means we’ll be looking ahead to the challenges the industry faces, such as Quality and Safety, Sustainability, and Skills. In this episode 1979’s Usborne Book of the Future set out what l…

Welcome to the first episode of the 21CC podcast, brought to you by the Chartered Institute of Building. 21CC is short for 21st Century Construction, which means we’ll be looking ahead to the challenges the industry faces, such as Quality and Safety, Sustainability, and Skills. In this episode With all eyes on Ukraine just now, we hear from a Canad…

The home of great construction stories. We go behind the headlines to meet the people who envision, create and manage the built world. Brought to you by the Chartered Institute of Building.Editor Rod Sweet outlines in one minute how we hope to bring the people stories behind the headlines...brought to you by CIOB…