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Workers in the construction industry are three times more likely to die by suicide than the general population but for those working in the building trades the risk is much higher at eight times. These are stark figures but construction industry…
The construction sector has been dialling up its approach to sustainability for decades, adding new resources to the sustainability toolkit year on year. Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) are one of the latest additions helping developers and specifiers to advance sustainability goals. Used to compare and assess the environmental impact of…
Firms working in the tunnelling sector have been give two extra weeks to put their projects and initiatives forward for NCE’s Tunnelling Awards.
The awards will be held in the evening at NCE’s Tunnelling Conference, which includes a daytime conference, on 7 December in London. “Industry leaders in the tunnelling sector have told us…
This video was filmed at NCE’s Flood Resilience conference. Portsmouth City Council is investing £100M in new sea defences for the Southsea area of the city to protect it from the risk of flooding for the next 100 years. In this presentation, the contracting team represented by VolkerStevin contract director…
This video was filmed at NCE’s Flood Resilience conference. In this session, National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) assistant director, policy and technical team Ed Beard talks through his organisation’s latest assessment of the government’s progress against the NIC’s recommendations on flood resilience. During the presentation, Beard considers how government is…
There is a huge need for investment around the world to bring transportation infrastructure up to standard and make it resilient to climate change but funding is only part of the solution. Seequent segment director, civil Pat McLarin says that a fundamentally different approach to delivery is needed too – and…
Winter storms and high tides have been blamed for delays in reopening Ryde Pier Head station following major restoration work to extend the life of the structure by 60 years.
The route has been closed to Island Line services since October last year but passenger services have resumed today. At the…
The conclusion of three years of restoration work on the Union Chain Bridge linking England and Scotland across the River Tweed was formally marked yesterday with the structure declared as an International Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
The bridge, which opened in 1820, is…
Tunnelling may be completed on London’s super sewer but there is still much work to be done to bring Tideway into operation.
Tunnel boring machine (TBM) launches and breakthroughs usually grab the headlines when it comes to delivery of new tunnel projects. But completion of the main drives is usually followed…
The latest episode of The Engineers Collective is out now.
Engineers need to be ready to embrace change when it comes to adopting new technology, according to Keith Bentley who has just retired from the post of chief technology officer at Bentley Systems, the firm he founded with his brother Barry…
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