A new survey from the CBI has revealed that demand for highly-skilled people will intensify during the recovery and employers fear they will not be able to find people with the skills they need to...
The 30-year concession to run Britain’s first high-speed railway, High Speed 1 has been awarded to a consortium comprising Borealis Infrastructure and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan for £2.1bn.
Alstom has won a €135m order to supply four 1000MW-Class steam turbine-generator packages for the conventional island of a new nuclear power plant to be built in northern China.
Energos plans to invest £40m in a renewable-energy facility at Knowsley Business Park in Merseyside that would convert leftover, non-recyclable waste into electricity for up to 10,000 homes.
A report by the Institution of Civil Engineers claims the UK lost £1.8bn in 2007 due to a stop/start approach to planning essential infrastructure projects, and could be losing £8bn by 2015
Adding a layer of nanoparticles to LEDs could help them produce more light for the same energy and increase their lifetime according to a team from Imperial College London and the Indian Institute of...
Car makers are increasingly using banks of smaller CNC machines to provide a flexible way to meet fluctuating demand within the constraints of just-in-time and lean manufacturing. Mark Venables...
A robot bee that can crash into walls and collide with other objects without being damaged is believed to be the first microrobot powered by soft actuators to achieve controlled flight.
Hynix Semiconductor, the Korean DRAM maker, is to pay a $185 million fine for participating in an international conspiracy to fix prices in the multi-billion dollar DRAM market.
Boeing has completed initial airworthiness testing on the 787 Dreamliner, a significant milestone that will allow extra crew members to take part in flights and more aircraft to join the flight-test...
