The Institution of Civil Engineers has launched a mobile careers app to help civil engineering and infrastructure students plan and track their route to professional qualification. The app provides structured guidance on ICE membership grades, IPD and CPD requirements, and routes to EngTech, IEng and CEng, alongside tools to log experience on site placements and design projects. For employers and mentors, it offers a standardised framework for monitoring graduate development against ICE competence statements.

Proof-of-concept tests have been completed on the UKRI-supported Manufacturer’s Information Hub (MIH), a not-for-profit platform to share structured construction product data across Europe via a standard API. Phase one defined how to connect manufacturer databases, created requirements for a standard data dictionary to validate and present attributes, and set rules to cut complexity and compliance risk around safety and environmental performance. Subject to funding, a small-scale working prototype linking a handful of manufacturers and users is targeted for spring 2027, with full-scale testing through 2027 and initial platform functionality from 2028.

Syntax has launched its Syntax Maintenance Cost Budgeting tool for mining operators, integrating directly with SAP Cloud ERP to give finance and maintenance teams site-, cost-centre- and asset-level visibility of maintenance expenditure. The system replaces spreadsheet-based workflows with automated data consolidation and predictive budgeting, enabling forward-looking control of major cost drivers such as mobile fleets, fixed plant and critical spares. For engineers, this supports more defensible life-of-mine maintenance plans, tighter cost tracking across multiple operations and faster budget revisions when production or asset strategies change.