21st Century Construction

Following World Environment Day 2024, we dig into a complex and difficult question.Construction is the single biggest source of greenhouse gases.It produces vast amounts of waste.The resource extraction needed to feed its demands puts enormous pressure on habitats and biodiversity.Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of buildings stand empty, even as we prepare to build hundreds of tho

Building Saudi’s Red Sea high-end tourist giga-project From bare sand to a collection of 50 separate resorts with its own international airport on Saudi Arabia’s remote west coast, The Red Sea giga-project is a high-end tourism scheme like no other. We speak to Andrew Tyson, head of construction at Red Sea Global, who’s in charge of bringing it all together.

Robotic micro-factories for housebuilding?[00:25] High-tech companies down through the years have often seen construction as a tantalising frontier, ripe for disruption by new ways of putting things together.Now, the Swiss multinational manufacturer ABB has entered the fray, with an idea for building affordable housing using robots at site-based micro-factories.They’ve

Happy Birthday, CIOB! Three young professionals look ahead [01:00]To celebrate the 190th anniversary of the founding of the Chartered Institute of Building, we speak to three young CIOB people from around the world – members of the Tomorrow’s Leaders network – about the one thing they’d like to change about the industry and how the CIOB can help with that.This stimulating e

Crushed by a horse, now crushing prejudice [00:32]Elite Australian athlete Hacia Atherton spent seven months in hospital recovering from a near-fatal accident in 2017.She was told she may never walk again, but she was having none of it.It took many months after leaving hospital, but she fought the pain and self-doubt to get back on her feet.In the process, she hatched a new mission

The home of great construction stories. We go behind the headlines to meet the people who envision, create and manage the built world. Brought to you by the Chartered Institute of Building.Got a topic you'd like us to cover? Email the podcast editor Rod Sweet [email protected] this episode:New-homes confidence crisis [01:20]In December, CIOB published results from a survey

The home of great construction stories. We go behind the headlines to meet the people who envision, create and manage the built world. Brought to you by the Chartered Institute of Building.In this episode:Refugees building Britain [00:50]Yemeni refugee Omar tells Cristina Lago how important his construction job is.Jargon Buster [16:27]What exactly do IFC and Cobie mean? And do you

The home of great construction stories. We go behind the headlines to meet the people who envision, create and manage the built world. Brought to you by the Chartered Institute of Building.This episode:[01:25] Abbi Taylor describes what happened after her dad broke his back falling from a ladder on a construction site when she was three.[09:16] 21CC jargon buster in chief Justin St

The home of great construction stories. We go behind the headlines to meet the people who envision, create and manage the built world. Brought to you by the Chartered Institute of Building.In this episode, CM’s Cristina Lago grills ex-Arup engineer Stevan Lukic about the AI chatbot he developed for construction projects. Does it hallucinate? [01:23][08:44] Our expert panel discus

Welcome to the fourth episode of the 21CC Podcast, brought to you by the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB). The home of great construction stories. We go behind the headlines to meet the people who envision, create and manage the built world.This episode, Will Mann reports on an AI tool developed to detect RAAC in buildings[11:38]; Rod Sweet explores a proposal to build a Roma