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Creating a sustainable future for energy and industry in the Middle East

24 February 2021

Black History Month 2021

23 February 2021

February marks the start of Black History Month in the United States, an annual celebration of achie...

Wood partners with Polar Academy

15 February 2021

A Scottish charity that supports and inspires young people through exploration has teamed up with Wo...

$2 hydrogen: The goal of H2 to Australia

10 February 2021

Hydrogen currently is an expensive vector given the energy required to produce it, the large amounts...

Industrial clusters show the power of cooperation and collaboration in achieving decarbonisation targets

29 January 2021

The Race to Zero Emissions & Resilience

25 January 2021

This week marks the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, part of a historic month in what has...

International Day of Education 2021

21 January 2021

Education has the power to change lives. Quality education and learning opportunities throughout lif...

Bio-hydrogen: enabling the decarbonisation of the UK’s transport sector

14 December 2020

Managing the transition: securing Australia’s energy needs and export future

02 December 2020

Going with the wind

16 November 2020

In America, states once driven primarily by fossil fuels are seeing the huge benefits of a diversif...

Australia’s hydrogen future

11 November 2020

Previously, Wood colleagues have been sharing insights on the potential of hydrogen and its contribu...

Accelerating offshore wind projects with digital delivery

06 November 2020

Wood’s Bronywn Sutton and Alan Mortimer recently wrote about the challenges to hitting the UK&...

Envisioning a better future for cities

30 October 2020

At a time when much of the world remains in isolation, the value of sustainable infrastructure in ci...

Avoiding technology for the sake of technology – understanding the asset, extracting data and changing your workforce

28 October 2020

Black History Month 2020

27 October 2020

October is Black History Month (BHM) in the United Kingdom, a nationwide celebration for more than 3...

Inspection of the Future: Connected Integrity

19 October 2020

Organisations operating assets across extractive, process and heavy industries are under pressure to...

Wood and Microsoft are delivering sustainable solutions for their clients

15 October 2020

The future of public engagement – enabling better community feedback through virtual consultation

09 October 2020

Can offshore wind propel the UK to 2030?

09 October 2020

The UK Prime Minister has set a vision to generate enough electricity from offshore wind to power ev...

Unlocking the power of partnership

01 October 2020

As we continue to adapt and evolve to meet the changing needs of our disruptive world, we see the in...

Rethinking urban transit development for a thriving future

02 September 2020

The pandemic brings a once in a lifetime opportunity to rethink how we plan thriving cities for futu...

Delivering the resilient infrastructure essential for improving human health

25 August 2020

The Blue Economy’s Future: Embracing the challenge

18 August 2020

Our world continues to face various levels of uncertainty, from a global pandemic to an increasingly...

Strong winds

13 August 2020

Wood is driving the future of wind through project delivery innovations according to Ila Charles, Wo...

International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples

07 August 2020

There are an estimated 476 million Indigenous peoples in the world living across 90 countries. Each ...

Arming the COVID-19 response

20 July 2020

Arming the COVID-19 responseOur Armed Forces network aims to bring together employees who are member...

Wood supports successful development consent order for Manston Airport

10 July 2020

Greg Gosson receives Award of Excellence for exceptional contribution to mining

24 June 2020

Wood’s Michelle Johnson recognised as one of the UK’s Top 50 Women in Engineering

23 June 2020

International Women in Engineering Day

22 June 2020

International Women in Engineering is a global awareness campaign which raises the profile of women ...

Why I walk with Pride

17 June 2020

June is Pride, a month dedicated to celebrating LGBTQ+ communities all around the world, how far LGB...

A new reality for urban mobility: smart solutions for a resilient future

11 June 2020

Preparing for the Unthinkable: Lessons from the Coronavirus Pandemic

04 June 2020

In the normal course of business, companies of all sizes face a wide variety of vulnerabilities, fro...

Tapping into Resilient Solutions for Our Water Future

02 June 2020

Washing our hands has never been more important as we work to stop the spread of coronavirus. So, im...

At the forefront of the fight against infectious diseases in Australia

25 May 2020

Sustainable infrastructure: embracing uncertainty in an ever changing world

19 May 2020

Model Behavior

18 May 2020

Challenging the status quo in challenging times isn’t for the faint hearted, but two of Wood's...

Peak carbon: As the smog clears, will we see a brighter future?

18 May 2020

While COVID-19 continues to have devastating consequences across the globe, the lockdown triggered b...

Unlocking the potential of technology to help solve client’s challenges

14 May 2020

The economics of hydrogen in a carbon constrained world

13 May 2020

The current COVID-19 crisis has placed a lens over the energy sector and how it respo...

A new surge of innovation

04 May 2020

When faced with a challenge, ingenuity often leads to innovative solutions. And with the current wor...

Pandemic-safe mobility response

23 April 2020

The global pandemic prompts rapid change in urban mobility practices to keep transportation workers ...

Earth Day through the prism of COVID-19

23 April 2020

Today is the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, an event observed in cities around the world to highligh...

Banking on safe operations

20 April 2020

As COVID-19 continues to evolve causing a ripple effect across the world, individuals and businesses...

Industrial hygiene support solutions for COVID-19

10 April 2020

Wood is helping businesses and communities navigate the challenge of creating a safe environment for...

Connecting workers to power vital services during unprecedented times

01 April 2020

In challenging situations one of the most important factors is morale. Community spirit has emerged ...

International Women’s Day 2020

05 March 2020

A sense of belonging – that’s how we want our people to feel as part of team Wood, to th...

Hydrogen: part of a sustainable mix to fuel the future

19 February 2020

Tackling emissions from road, rail, aviation and marine transport is critical if the world is to mee...

How will sustainable urban infrastructure advance in the next 15 years?

12 February 2020

Delivering a Connected Design solution for subsea pipelines

11 February 2020

How our Digital & Technology capability enabled the Automated Design – Pipeline platform t...

Towards a more bankable future for sustainable infrastructure

11 February 2020

Thirty years ago, only 10 cities had populations large enough to qualify as megacities. In the next ...

Stand Down for Sarah

31 January 2020

On October 11, 2019, we received some tragic news about a teammate working in the Mentone region of ...

Confronting the PFAS challenge

22 January 2020

Complex chemical structures, impacts to human health and the environment, evolving regulations&helli...

An idea, a patent and now a CoLab project

21 January 2020

Wood employees, Katie Zimmerman and Patti Yoast sought ways in which to differentiate in their part ...

Scaling up production to meet the promise of H2

08 January 2020

If the world is going to realise the potential of hydrogen a vast increase in production is required...

Climate resiliency requires courageous conversations as well as innovative solutions

16 December 2019

Hydrogen, can we unlock the full potential?

28 November 2019

The most abundant element in the universe, hydrogen has very strong clean energy credentials.Hydroge...

The gold standard

15 November 2019

Wood is a proud supporter of the armed forces and on 12 November 2019, received the prestigious Gold...

Building Better Cities for Better Lives – a nod to World Cities Day

31 October 2019

When we consider the requirements of a growing global population and the im...

LNG on Legs

13 September 2019

A new frontier is on the gas market horizon: Offshore platform-based liquefied natural gas (PLNG).Th...

The launch of a landmark EPC project in Texas

13 June 2019

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Men’s Health Week: Health by numbers

13 June 2019

This week we are marking International Men’s Health Week – a time for us all to put men&...

Flying the flag

12 June 2019

Promoting and supporting diversity and inclusion in the workplace is an important commitment we mak...

World Environment Day 2019 – beat air pollution

05 June 2019

World Environment Day takes place on 5 June each year. It is the United Nations day for encouraging ...

The importance of CCUS on the road towards net-zero

15 May 2019

The recent Committee on Climate Change report provides a stark warning on the threat of climate chan...

Earth Day 2019: Protect our species

22 April 2019

Earth Day is celebrated by more than a billion people every year. It is a day of action that aims to...

Conquering the value chain to unlock the future for mining

08 April 2019

The role of technology in mining is changing. In the past, we witnessed changes in mining and proce...

Building a water-secure world one drop at a time

19 March 2019

Imagine the burden of walking six kilometres each day just to collect the most basic necessity for l...