9+ hour, 38+ min ago  (474+ words) Goldman Sachs has cut its end2026 gold price forecast by US$500/oz to US$4, 900/oz after the US Federal Reserve, under new chair Kevin Warsh, signalled a hawkish shift that has pushed market-implied December rate hike odds to 87%. Spot gold has…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (412+ words) Thousands of engineering construction workers covered by the National Agreement for the Engineering Construction Industry will receive a 4. 5% pay rise from May 2026 after unions threatened industrial action. The uplift applies to grades working on major UK energy and infrastructure projects,…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (418+ words) France's central bank has liquidated its remaining 129 tonnes of gold held at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, selling the "non'standard" bars between July 2025 and January 2026 and buying replacement bullion in European markets that meets modern international bar specifications....

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (394+ words) Mandatory sharing of ground investigation data under the proposed Geotechnical Data Sharing Bill is "critical" to cutting project cost and risk, Atkins R'alis geotechnical engineer and Engineering Geology chair Dr Jacqueline Skipper told NCE. Skipper argues that making borehole logs,…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago  (416+ words) The UK government has fired the starting pistol on a decade'long programme to deliver "725bn of infrastructure, signalling an unprecedented pipeline across transport, energy, water and social assets. For civil and geotechnical engineers this scale implies sustained demand for major works…...

3+ mon, 3+ day ago  (161+ words) First reported on The Construction Index The Construction Plant-hire Association (CPA) also appears in recent safety-focused guidance work with Network Rail on cranes near live rail tracks, so its criticism of West Midlands Police will likely carry weight with national…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (171+ words) First reported on The Construction Index Gateway 2 sign-off by the Building Safety Regulator puts this Stratford PBSA in a relatively early cohort of schemes navigating the full post-Grenfell regime, which in our infrastructure database has been a schedule and design…...