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Joining NCE features editor Nadine Buddoo and reporter Catherine Kennedy are Tim Barrett, who is senior environmental specialist for the Port of San Diego’s environmental conservation department and Andrew Rella, global director of engineering for eco-engineering company ECOncrete. They explain how a blue…
The Environment Agency has launched an Action Plan outlining how the public body and its partners will tackle the rising risk of floods in the UK.
The Action Plan sets out how the Environment Agency will implement its flood and coastal erosion strategies to avoid an estimated £32bn in economic damages.…
Former UK Met Office chief scientist Dame Julia Slingo, who headed up Network Rail’s Weather Action Task Force initiated following the fatal derailment at Carmont in August 2020, is to deliver the keynote speech at NCE’s Future of Floods virtual event on 24 June.
The Network Rail convened the task…
The Environment Agency has reached another major milestone in the development of the £45M York Flood Alleviation Scheme with construction getting underway in four areas of the city.
Work is starting this week under Lendal Bridge to prepare for the installation of a new, larger floodgate, while flood wall construction has…
Portsmouth Water has confirmed the suppliers in the running to help deliver its £100M Havant Thicket Reservoir in Hampshire – the first major new water storage reservoir in the UK since the 1980s.
Following a pre-qualification process, the company has now issued formal invites to tender for the two main work…
Lack of space coupled with rising tides made the tunnel excavation at Tideway’s Chelsea Embankment particularly challenging, according to engineers at RMD Kwikform.
Brought in by main contractor Ferrovial Construction and Laing O’Rourke (FLO) JV, RMD Kwikform was tasked with supplying its innovative ground shoring products to help support the excavation…
Completion of a flood wall in a small Dorset seaside village might be a minor story for most but for me it is another stage in a project that started in the early 1980s – and one that lead me down the path of engineering as a career.
The latest work…
All large raised reservoirs, including those under construction, in England must prepare an on-site flood plan by April 2022 under a new statutory requirement issued by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra).
Environment secretary George Eustice ordered the change for raised reservoirs with a capacity of over 25,000m³…
Tide pools to enhance marine life are being installed in the rock revetment at Long Curtain Moat in Portsmouth as part of the Southsea Coastal Scheme.
The 18 concrete pools are designed to create ecosystems that mimic natural rock pools found on rocky coastlines. The pools retain water to increase the…
The Department for the Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has begun the search for a technical advisor to monitor the Thames Tideway Tunnel's cost and schedule.
The technical advisor will provide Defra and the government with engineering, commissioning and major construction project expertise to “protect the government’s interests in the…
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