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The fifth annual BLAKitecture forum held at MPavilion examines the structures and processes at each state of working within the built environment to highlight barriers and opportunities for change.

TEESSIDE International Airport is celebrating its 80th anniversary this year, as it looks to make 2021 a transformative year full of opportunity despite the coronavirus pandemic. The airport was born in January 1941, when the airfield for the World War Two bomber base, then named RAF Middleton St George, was opened. In April of that year, it would go on to welcome its first Whitley bombers of the RAF’s 78 Squadron. During the war, it was allocated as a base for the Royal Canadian Air Forc...

Watch: Challenges of achieving carbon net zero in bridge design and beyond  This video was first broadcast at NCE’s Future of Transport conference 2020. In this session, the panel discusses what is currently being achieved in bridge design, construction and maintenance in the pursuit of becoming carbon neutral. Chair Steve Denton, WSP executive director and head of civil, bridge and ground engineering, is joined by National Composites Centre market development lead Neil Appleton, London Te...