The UK Government has committed £100 million to establish a new AI Biosecurity Lab, but the announcement does not identify a site, building, construction budget or property strategy for the organisation. The Cabinet Office announced the AI Biosecurity Lab, or AIBL, on 24 October as what it describes as the world’s first dedicated AI biosecurity organisation. It will use frontier artificial in…
Construction businesses running websites, tender portals or supplier systems on PHP are being urged to patch two critical vulnerabilities or consider taking affected systems offline, after the National Cyber Security Centre warned that the flaws could allow attackers to execute commands on any web server running the language. The PHP project released emergency fixes on 21 October for the vulnerab…
SEGRO expects to sign a pre-let with a major hyperscaler "in the coming months" for its first fully fitted data centre, the joint venture with Pure Data Centres Group at Premier Park in Park Royal, west London. The update came in the company's nine-month trading statement published on 21 October 2026 , which said negotiations were ongoing and that timing remained in line with its pr…
CBRE has agreed to acquire London-based data-center infrastructure specialist Onnec Group in a deal worth up to £760 million, extending the global property-services group further into the technical delivery of hyperscale and AI infrastructure. The transaction comprises an initial £460 million cash payment and a multi-year earn-out of up to £300 million linked to Onnec meeting specified growth…
Thermal drones can remove scaffolding, MEWPs or rope access from the first stage of some roof, façade and infrastructure inspections, but the thermal image does not diagnose the defect. A radiometric camera records apparent surface temperatures. It can show an area behaving differently from the construction around it: a warm section of flat roof, heat escaping around a window, an unusually hot e…
Artificial intelligence is unlikely to empty UK construction sites before 2030. The first serious workforce disruption is more likely to happen in the project office, where document control, estimating, quantity surveying support, procurement administration, programme reporting and other information-heavy functions are increasingly exposed to automation. London Construction Magazine's rev…
