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Engineering Group Avingtrans Reports Revenues of Over £100M

Engineering Group Avingtrans Reports Revenues of Over £100M

Cambridgeshire-headquartered engineering group Avingtrans has seen revenues jumping past the £100 million milestone, with the business also returning to the black. Avingtrans generated revenues of £105.5 million, up from £78.9 million 12 months prior to the year to 31 May 2019. The business also reported a pre-tax profit of £3.1 million compared to a loss of […]

Systra Acquires Engineering Firm TSP Projects

Systra Acquires Engineering Firm TSP Projects

Systra Acquires Engineering Firm TSP Projects : Systra has acquired engineering firm TSP Projects. It will enable the firm to double the size of its UK & Ireland operations. It is the company’s first major engineering acquisition in the UK and follows the acquisitions of SIAS Transport Planners in 2016 and JMP Consultants Ltd in […]

Renishaw Supports INEOS TEAM UK in America’s Cup bid

Renishaw Supports INEOS TEAM UK in America’s Cup bid

Global engineering company Renishaw is supporting Sir Ben Ainslie and INEOS TEAM UK in their bid to bring the America’s Cup home to Britain. As the team’s official precision measurement and additive manufacturing (AM) partner, Renishaw will contribute its engineering expertise to aid and fast track the build process as they bid to win the 36th America’s […]

adi Group Looking at the Future with Pre-Apprenticeship Scheme

adi Group Looking at the Future with Flourishing Pre-Apprenticeship Scheme

A leading engineering firm’s commitment to addressing the UK skills gap has been celebrated with the graduation of 11 students from its pioneering pre-apprenticeship scheme. In front of a packed audience of influential business leaders, mentors and proud parents, the youngsters, donning university-style graduate gowns, collected their course certificates at adi Group’s headquarters in Kings […]

FIDIC Launches Golden Principles to Safeguard Integrity of Its Documents

International engineering federation FIDIC (the International Federation of Consulting Engineers) has launched its Golden Principles to set out the essential characteristics of its general conditions of contract that should not be amended if the contract is to be regarded as a genuine FIDIC contract. In a bid to safeguard the integrity of FIDIC contracts and […]

BAE Systems Calls for Nationwide Effort to Develop Skills for Industry 4.0

BAE Systems Calls for Nationwide Effort to Develop Skills for Industry 4.0

BAE Systems Calls for Nationwide Effort to Develop Skills for Industry 4.0 : BAE Systems has called today for a concerted and co-ordinated effort by industry, Government and the education sector to ensure the UK can fully benefit from the digital revolution and Industry 4.0. Nigel Whitehead, Chief Technology Officer at BAE Systems, stated that […]

Advanced Engineering Returns with the Medical Device Engineering Zone

Advanced Engineering Returns with the Medical Device Engineering Zone

The UK’s largest annual gathering of engineering professionals, Advanced Engineering, is back and bigger than ever on October 30 and 31, 2019 at the NEC, Birmingham. With a two-day attendance of some 15,000 engineering professionals, the eleventh edition of the trade show will provide companies with the opportunity to meet with OEMs and supply chain partners from […]

Simplified Programming Could Improve Britain’s Robotics Adoption

Simplified Programming Could Improve Britain’s Robotics Adoption

Until recently, the Industrial Revolution was largely associated with drastic engineering efforts that transformed Britain’s industry. Two centuries later, we are experiencing another shift in global manufacturing, the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). Nigel Smith, managing director of industrial robot distributor TM Robotics, explains how Britain can reclaim the robotics revolution with simplified robot programming.   According to […]

Future Face of Engineering at HS2 Has Been Revealed

Future Face of Engineering at HS2 Revealed

Marking International Women in Engineering Day (INWED) on Sunday 23 June, HS2 Ltd has produced a short film which subverts the stereotype of what an engineer looks like, challenging the out-dated masculine preconceptions of an industry that is rapidly becoming more gender-inclusive. The short film stars Clara Lenzi, a Project Management apprentice at Britain’s new high speed […]

Thermprocess / METEC – Vacuum Solutions for Metallurgy

Thermprocess / METEC – Vacuum Solutions for Metallurgy

The need for energy-efficient, sustainable processes is increasing especially with regard to the frictions caused by high energy prices, increasing global warming and scarce resources. These requirements also have a direct impact on vacuum systems which are an elementary component in heat treatment plants and metallurgical processes. Leybold offers a wide range of highly innovative, […]

adi Group Broadens Sustainability Debate at Manufacturing Expo

adi Group Broadens Sustainability Debate at Manufacturing Expo

The national conversation around sustainability is too narrow in its scope, an influential leader from one of the Midlands’ premier engineering firms has told a gathering of key industry figures. Sustainability is a subject on everybody’s lips in business circles – and for good reason, with those working across many sectors increasingly doing their best […]

Advanced Engineering Discusses the Importance of Women

Advanced Engineering Discusses the Importance of Women

On 23 June 1919, a committee of influential women sensed a new dawn. The First World War had ended, and significant steps had been taken towards women’s suffrage. The group, ranging from designers and munitions factory managers to wives of eminent engineers, rallied to found the Women’s Engineering Society (WES). 100 years later, progress for […]

Altair Brings Powerful Design and Engineering Software

Altair Brings Powerful Design and Engineering Software

Altair, a global technology company providing solutions in product development, high-performance computing and data intelligence, announced today the release of Altair HyperWorks™ 2019, the latest version of its simulation- and AI-driven product development software. The new release expands on the number of solutions available for designers and engineers, under a single, open-architecture platform, to speed […]

Inspiring the Female Future with Advanced Engineering 2019

Inspiring the Female Future with Advanced Engineering 2019

On 23 June 1919, a committee of influential women sensed a new dawn. The First World War had ended, and significant steps had been taken towards women’s suffrage. The group, ranging from designers and munitions factory managers to wives of eminent engineers, rallied to found the Women’s Engineering Society (WES). 100 years later, progress for […]

New Engineering Practice Announces Its First Office

New Engineering Practice Announces Its First Office

The current perception of engineering is that of a traditional industry; engineers with their heads buried in squared paper and visiting building sites in garish, yellow hard hats. But, in reality, it is a sector which is rapidly developing to meet the evolving requirements of clients, updates in technology, environmental changes and social factors; and […]

MCMT Holds Largest Career Day

MCMT Holds Largest Career Day

Shropshire’s largest dedicated career event for vocational learning in engineering and manufacturing is set to take place later this month. The Marches Centre of Manufacturing & Engineering (MCMT) will host a special day for young people and mature learners to explore the latest apprenticeship opportunities currently available in the county. Held on April 23rd between […]

Engineering Firm Raises Thousands for Children’s Hospice

Engineering Firm Raises Thousands for Children's Hospice

Staff from leading engineering solutions provider Boulting Ltd., which has offices around the UK and its headquarters in the North West, have completed a series of fundraising events and activities, raising almost £6,000 for Liverpool-based Zoe’s Place Baby Hospice. Employees from Boulting Ltd’s numerous sites across the UK have organised a series of fundraising activities […]

World Bank Signs Agreement to Use FIDIC Contracts

World Bank Signs Agreement to Use FIDIC Contracts

International engineering federation FIDIC (the International Federation of Consulting Engineers) has secured a major agreement with the World Bank that will see the international funding organisation adopt the use of six FIDIC standard contracts for the next five years. Under the terms of the agreement, FIDIC has granted the World Bank a non-exclusive licence to […]

Men in Engineering Earn 30% More Than Women

Men in Engineering Earn 30% More Than Women

Men in engineering earn up to 30% more than women in the same roles, revealed a new research conducted by on of the UK’s largest accountants. Hemel Hempstead-based SJD accountants has analysed salaries of both male and females in the sector revealing some astonishing figures.   According to the analysis, females with job titles such […]

BakerHicks Appoints Business Development Director

BakerHicks Appoints Business Development Director

John Lawton has been appointed by BakerHicks, the multidisciplinary design and engineering company, as Business Development Director to support the continued success and growth of the business across its key sectors. John will specifically support the company’s business development and management teams in implementing their respective sales and marketing strategies within the Aviation, Defence, Life […]

Sheffield Opens Three Advanced Engineering Centres

Sheffield Opens Three Advanced Engineering Centres

Three new multi-million pound research centres have been opened by the University of Sheffield in the region, aiming to further boost the city’s reputation as a hub for advanced engineering. The new centres could also boost the reputation of the Northern Powerhouse as a leader in advanced research, innovation and engineering. The Royce Translational Centre […]

Combining Resource Planning Can Elevate Engineering’s Key Issues

All industries have specific requirements when planning for the upcoming days, weeks, months and even years ahead. One of the key issues concerning planning in the engineering sector is that the industry as a whole needs a resource plan that can manage both the people on the ground and the equipment they are using. The […]

How Engineering Can Benefit from Better Planning

Overseeing the movements of people, equipment, transport and office space is an engineering project manager’s ultimate goal. Using a flexible resource planning tool, engineering companies can see where equipment is and where the operators are located (and most importantly if they are free). They can also add in information around maintenance of tools, vacations or […]

Assystem Turns 50!

Assystem Turns 50!

The international group Assystem in a specialist in engineering. The company is celebrating 50 years of engineering heritage that covers aerospace, automotive and nuclear engineering sectors. While celebrating this momentous anniversary, the company if looking to improve their presence in the sector by increasing the delivery of next generation and end to end full life […]