AuthorHelen Yates

Investment in infrastructure development is set to be one of the main drivers of sustainable growth in emerging markets as the COVID-crisis subsides, according to sigma and research carried out by the Journal According to half of those polled in the survey, conducted by The Journal in November 2020, it could take one to two years for the engineering and construction sector to fully recover from...

Climate change is resulting in increasingly extreme and unpredictable weather. For engineering contractors and developers, this means the risk is becoming more difficult to manage. Flash floods in the desert, hailstones the size of tennis balls and new trends in how hurricanes and typhoons track and build momentum. These are just some of the issues that contractors must deal with when they...