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The winners of the Construction News Awards 2018 have been revealed at a glittering ceremony in London’s Mayfair.

The UK is now midway between the government’s announcement of new nuclear sites in 2011 and the 2025 tipping point when swathes of existing supply will be shut down. CN takes the opportunity to analyse how each of the six nuclear new-builds is getting on.

Behind every great company are the people who make them what they are.

Five new nuclear sites with as many as 12 new reactors are set to be built in the UK over the next decade. Does the sector have the required pool of skills to deliver the government’s ambitions?

Britain’s brickwork is often overlooked and the skills needed to craft brickwork into something of beauty often taken for granted.

As part of CN’s week-long look at the industry’s skills challenge, James Wilmore discovers how fresh data and political investigations are shedding more and more light on the impact Brexit is having and will have on workforces.

A panel of the industry’s best new talent came together to offer a unique insight on why construction is struggling to attract young people – and how it can solve the problem.

Construction has the largest gender pay gap of any UK industry. But behind the data, why is this issue business-critical and what do the experiences of women in the sector reveal about the challenges we must tackle? Lucy Alderson investigates.

The government has begun the search for companies to finance and construct a £900m rail line linking Heathrow to the Great Western Main Line.

From selling books and groceries through to drone delivery and robot PAs, Amazon seems to have a hand in everything. Should construction feel emboldened or threatened? James Wilmore finds out.

Keltbray has agreed a partnership with Canadian construction giant Aecon to target future rail projects across Canada.

The findings of Randstad’s 2018 Women in Construction report can be seen as bittersweet.

Network Rail has awarded Balfour Beatty a £115m deal to supply a fleet of vehicles to carry out track maintenance across two of the client’s busiest routes.

Women are paid nearly a third less than men across the top 100 contractors by turnover, analysis by Construction News has revealed.

Imagine using an app to book a car to work everyday – and your driver is an artificial intelligence system. It might sound like something from science fiction, but driverless cars are closer than we think. But is construction ready to play its part? Lucy Alderson finds out.

Welsh slate exterior, Danish brickwork and wallpaper from France, the completed Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice will be a grand design befitting its royal name.

“If you are not excited by what you see today, you might want to change careers,” Mace’s project director Jonathan Foster tells assembled students.

Winner: M J Rooney Construction – Virtual Basements M J Rooney’s progressive mindset and exceptional outputs left the judges unanimous in handing it this award.

Winner: M J Rooney Construction – Virtual Basements M J Rooney’s progressive mindset and exceptional outputs left the judges unanimous in handing it this award.

Winner: Tyler Pearce – Lee Marley Brickwork In one of the most fiercely contested Apprentice of the Year shortlists to date, the judges were given a hugely difficult task.