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British Drilling Association chair Richard Fielden believes the BDA Audit has helped elevate the drilling sector to professional status.

Stuart Norman gives a piling contractor’s perspective on the application of low carbon concretes.

Federation of Piling Specialists’ Mark Pennington endorses the electronic pile (e-pile) schedule as a must for digital transfer of pile design data.

FPS chair Steve Hadley discusses the first stages of a new mentoring scheme focused on underrepresented groups within the construction sector.

British Drilling Association director John Grainger on a driller’s path to success.

FPS chair Steve Hadley writes about best practice safety culture and how the piling industry can learn from other sectors.

According to the United Nations and the International Energy Agency, 39% of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions (CO2e) are produced by buildings and construction. This makes construction and the built environment an indirect driver of climate change, which has been responsible for geophysical disasters that claimed 1.3M lives and US$3 trillion…

Innovation, investment and continual development are key to growth, according to British Drilling Association chair Richard Fielden.

Most experts in construction agree that the greatest risk to a project is ground conditions, and, in particular, when ground conditions are different to those expected. Equally, most people agree that employing computers to analyse vast amounts of data and presenting it in a user-friendly way is far more effective…

On 19 June 2013, two welders, Zac Payne and Michael Morris, died after one of them fell asleep at the wheel of his van. They had been driving back to Doncaster after a night shift in Stevenage. Nottingham Crown Court found their employer had failed to ensure that they were…