Construction companies are still refusing to hire women, despite an ongoing staffing crisis and demand for new recruits in the front-line manual sector.
One team in England recently achieved one of the world s most sustained single tunnel-boring machine drives on a mine project, says its contractor, while another secured a design-build contract for the country s longest road tunnel,
The latest UK Construction PMI data signals a modest upturn in overall UK construction output, driven by faster rises in commercial building and civil engineering activity. However, house building remained by far the weakest-performing category of activity, with output declining at the steepest pace for three years.