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Behind the project: APM’s 2025 Overall Project of the Year Blog

BP’s Greater Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) Phase 1 project off the coast of Africa is a case study in engineering innovation, complex stakeholder management and international collaboration.



Smart construction in sensitive sites – IoT challenges and opportunities Blog

Oil and gas sites are unlike typical construction environments.


An all-female project team at the Natural History Museum Blog

London’s Natural History Museum will mark its 150th anniversary in 2031.



Making lean construction stick with dynamic capabilities Blog

The construction industry’s juggling act is becoming harder to manage.


Building Better Together: Insights from Amos Simbo OBE on Professionalisation in Construction News

In a lively virtual meetup hosted by the APM Built Environment Interest Network on Tuesday 13 May, attendees were treated to an engaging conversation with Amos Simbo OBE, founder of BPIC Network (Built Environment Inclusion) and Winway Group.


Upskilling and training project professionals in Engineering Construction industry is key to meeting demand increase News

The ECITB says 'project manager' will be one of the occupations most in demand, along with mechanical fitters, electrical technicians, process engineers, pipefitters, welders and design technicians.


Women in construction: how to make the sector more equal Blog

Working in the built environment as a female project professional is still harder than for a male project professional.


Break the bias, deliver the benefits: how to stop unconscious bias from derailing your construction projects Blog

We all have blind spots — it’s an inherent part of being human.


Behind the project: APM’s 2025 Overall Project of the Year

BP’s Greater Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) Phase 1 project off the coast of Africa is a case study in engineering innovation, complex stakeholder management and international collaboration.


Smart construction in sensitive sites – IoT challenges and opportunities

Oil and gas sites are unlike typical construction environments.


An all-female project team at the Natural History Museum

London’s Natural History Museum will mark its 150th anniversary in 2031.


Making lean construction stick with dynamic capabilities

The construction industry’s juggling act is becoming harder to manage.


Women in construction: how to make the sector more equal

Working in the built environment as a female project professional is still harder than for a male project professional.



Platform-based delivery is transforming the role of project managers

Project managers in the construction sector are being challenged to radically improve the efficiency and predictability of the delivery of complex and bespoke assets.


Inflation in infrastructure projects: a risk we need to address

It’s not often an economics story makes the headlines but as we start 2022, inflation is a lead news item.


Modern methods of construction: helping the government build back better, faster and greener

In June 2021, I wrote a blog about why sustainable contracting arrangements are vital to the government’s build back recovery plan.


How we kept our construction project going during national lockdowns

As lockdowns continue to ease and we see some sort of 2019 normality, we look back at how tech changed the way we worked over the last few years.




Building Better Together: Insights from Amos Simbo OBE on Professionalisation in Construction

In a lively virtual meetup hosted by the APM Built Environment Interest Network on Tuesday 13 May, attendees were treated to an engaging conversation with Amos Simbo OBE, founder of BPIC Network (Built Environment Inclusion) and Winway Group.


Upskilling and training project professionals in Engineering Construction industry is key to meeting demand increase

The ECITB says 'project manager' will be one of the occupations most in demand, along with mechanical fitters, electrical technicians, process engineers, pipefitters, welders and design technicians.


Joint action needed across organisations to improve employee wellbeing in the construction sector, experts say

Experts are calling for better strategies and actions from employers across the project profession to promote employee wellbeing for project managers in and beyond the construction sector, after new research explored how project-based firms care for employee wellbeing when implementing modern methods of construction (MMC).


New competence framework launches for project managers in the built environment

A new competence framework that applies to the management of projects in the built environment has been launched, following changes in the recently introduced Building Safety Act.



New report indicates growing demand for sustainability in construction contracts

A new report, supported by Association for Project Management (APM), has revealed that contractual demands for sustainable outcomes are becoming the norm in construction projects.


Impact of work-related stress often overlooked

The latest APM research paper summary released today, 'Occupational stress and job demand, control and support factors among construction project consultants', highlights the effect of stress on project consultants, investigating the relationship between job demands, job control, workplace support factors and occupational stress.


A pioneer in the construction industry: Kathryn Ladley

Inspirational APM member, Kathryn Ladley BSc, FRICS, MAPM, FQSI, was recently awarded a Lifetime Achievement in Construction award presented by the European Women in Construction and Engineering organisation.


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