The deadline for the TechFest Awards has been extended to Friday 21 July, giving potential entrants just under two weeks extra to submit their entries.
Celebrating innovation in civil engineering and construction, the awards will be held in the evening after TechFest's daytime conference on 23 November at Hilton London Bankside,…
An urgent call to amend how renewable energy projects bid for contracts has been made to the government from three renewable energy trade bodies.
In a joint letter to the secretary of state for energy security and net zero Grant Shapps, RenewableUK, Energy UK and Scottish Renewables have called for changes…
The Welsh Government has launched its £750,000 challenge to innovators to break down barriers preventing development of tidal lagoons.
Whereas all currently installed tidal energy schemes in the UK are tidal stream – the harnessing of water’s kinetic energy through spinning turbines – tidal lagoons are examples of tidal range. This…
Government organisation Nuclear Waste Services has commenced studies to assess potential sites for suitability to host nuclear waste storage facilities.
Known as a geological disposal facility (GDF), it will see the creation of underground vaults and tunnels in which to store the radioactive waste from nuclear power stations. Currently the UK’s…
In recent years the electricity network, or rather the way in which we connect to and access the network, has received significant attention. While this attention should be welcomed in helping to identify and then seeking to address issues, the pace at which change is happening is not sufficient if…
The Climate Change Committee’s (CCC’s) confidence in the UK meeting its decarbonisation and net zero goals post-2030 is “markedly less” than it was a year ago and it has pointed out a wide range of holes in the government’s policies for achieving them.
The CCC is the UK’s independent adviser to…
Tidal stream energy has the potential to contribute to sustainable economic growth in the UK, according to a new report.
There are two types of tidal energy; tidal range involves large scale lagoons or barrages and uses water level differential to turn turbines, whereas tidal stream is the harnessing of kinetic…
Plans for 180km of new electricity network infrastructure have been updated as National Grid sets out another round of consultation for its project to connect the counties to new offshore wind generation.
This latest public consultation follows initial round last year and includes updated detail on the potential location of infrastructure…
Bechtel is to play a key role in the rebuilding of Ukraine's war-damaged infrastructure.
The US engineering specialist signed a memorandum of understanding with the State Agency for Restoration and Development of Infrastructure of Ukraine (SARDIU). The news about the deal with Bechtel follows on from Aecom last week revealing a…
Since the 1950s, fusion and its promise of near-limitless, emission free energy has always been 20 years away, so the old joke goes. But no longer. Today, fusion is expected to be on the grid in the next decade and will create opportunities for the civil engineering sector too.
Across…
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