A £1.3bn investment programme for Swansea has been signed off by prime minister Theresa May, kickstarting 11 major projects including a marine energy centre.
The Swansea City Region Deal, which includes £241M of UK and Welsh government funding and the rest from private and public sector sources, is expected to bring…
WSP Parsons Brinckerhoff has won a contract to provide National Grid with cable manufacturing quality assurance work for the £1.7bn North Sea Link interconnector, the first between Norway and the UK.
The 1400MW electricity link, running between Kvilldal in Norway and Blyth in the UK, will power almost 750,000 homes when…
Bechtel says it has withdrawn from plans to build a small modular nuclear reactor in the United States.
The company wanted to build the world’s first commercially viable small modular reactor (SMR) plant with nuclear tecnhology partners BWX Technologies, in a venture known as Generation mPower, as early as 2020. But after…
A new low-head river hydroelectric power plant has opened in Yorkshire today.
The new 500kW Kirkthorpe hydro scheme on the River Calder is built next to a Victorian weir which drops around 3m in height. Water flowing into the plant above the weir drops by around 7m and is then channelled through…
Wales is set to get the UK’s first grid-scale energy storage project for more than 30 years after planning permission was granted for a 99MW pumped storage hydro (PSH) scheme, the first onshore hydro scheme to go through the fast-track Planning Act 2008.
The £160M Glyn Rhonwy Pumped Storage Hydropower plant in…
Ensuring infrastructure is ready for advances in technology which will change the way we live is crucial to planning, experts have warned.
Having enough electricity to meet the needs of the ”internet of things” or ensuring there is enough 5G access on roads to support autonomous vehicles are central issues for the…
The ICE is launching a programme of events to celebrate its 200th anniversary next year.
The ICE 200 programme will feature the people and projects who have made an impact on society across the UK and internationally, telling the story of civil engineering over the last 200 years. The aim is…
New Civil Engineer March 2017 is devoted to the UK’s planned £500bn investment in infrastructure. In the sectoral overview I looked in vain for “water”, finding only a mention of it in “utilities”. It isn’t only New Civil Engineer that can see no further than drinking water as the nation’s only…
Eurotunnel subsidiary ElecLink has awarded a joint venture between Balfour Beatty and cable manufacturer Prysmian Group the £185M contract to install a 65km high voltage direct current interconnector in the Channel Tunnel.
The interconnector is the first in the world to be installed in a live rail tunnel. Europe’s planned super gird…
Consultant Mott MacDonald is to advise on two newly proposed tidal power schemes in the North West.
Northern Tidal Power Gateways is working up the two schemes that could generate 6,500GW from Morecambe Bay and 100GW from the Duddon Estuary. With a combined cost of £8bn, the schemes include a link to the M6 and…
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