Investment in global infrastructure expected to grow by almost 5% between 2019 and 2023

The evolution of global infrastructure investment could be more positive than originally predicted over the coming years. The infrastructure market in the UK is forecast to perform above the average across the infrastructure sub-sector whilst having a current investment of US$1.7 Trillion as extracted from Globaldata’s research ‘Global Construction Outlook to 2023 – Q1 2019 Update’. We draw particular attention to analysis of this report with reference to UK Construction Online amongst other sources. Additional topics in this article include the predicted value by infrastructure sector and analysis of the EDHEC Infrastructure Institute-Singapore “2019 Global Infrastructure Investor Survey, Benchmarking Trends and Best Practices”. […]

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UK Funding to help tackle on-site skills shortages

Funding in excess of £20 million awarded to 26 projects in the UK to help tackle skills shortage and deliver growing infrastructure needs. […]

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Doka showcase high-rise competencies at Birmingham seminar

Doka UK, October 18, 2018.- Doka UK Formwork Technologies demonstrate formwork competencies in high-rise construction at ‘How to Build Higher, Faster and Safer’ seminar held in Birmingham. Saving costs, improving speed and advancing safety are three areas in which contractors are striving to better in their construction programs. Doka took on this challenge in the seminar along […]

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An Opportunity for public sector procurement reform with the National Civil Engineering and Infrastructure framework

Doka work with major partners on these civil and infrastructure projects in order to supply formwork and shoring solutions for the construction of bridges and tunnels, public facilities such as schools, hospital and transport hubs as well as power-generation facilities. As a specialist supplier of construction materials, we believe it is critical to ensure that there is an even and balanced environment to allow for all types and sizes of construction company to become involved and engaged in these larger nationwide framework agreements. At Doka, we would welcome the opportunity speak with companies which are looking to participate in the next round of framework agreement and to take the opportunity to share our thoughts on how our formwork and shoring services can integrate themselves into the earlier stages of your plans. […]

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