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A new temporary-works access system offers a rapidly installed alternative to large-scale scaffolding. Paul Thompson reports

Construction News visits Farnborough Airport to see how VolkerFitzpatrick is managing to work amid the challenges of a live airfield – and an influx of travelling celebrities

Construction News visits the site of the 2.3 km Luton DART route running between the Luton Airport Parkway train station and Luton Airport, and finds out how a JV between Kier and VolkerFitzpatrick has had to overcome the challenges provided by an assortment of rail, road and flight paths

A huge upgrade of the port’s cargo facilities has called for hundreds of piles and masses of dredging in one of the busiest docks in the world.

Mott MacDonald and VolkerFitzpatrick faced the task of revamping a busy station to reflect east London’s chemical history – while also keeping to extremely tight timescales. Lucy Alderson takes a look.

Our annual CN100 ranks the top 100 contractors by turnover and provides in-depth analysis of performance and prospects across the industry. Ahead of the publication of the 2016 edition on Tuesday, we look back at how last year’s top 30 have performed over the past four CN100s.

A collapsed culvert was just one of the technical challenges on the contractor’s work to build a home for new state-of-the-art trains.

An Australian collaboration model is driving innovation and cutting costs on the £250m Staffordshire Alliance project that will remove the last congestion blackspot on Network Rail’s busiest line.