Author Archives: Claire Smith

Claire Smith is a qualified geotechnical engineer and editor of New Civil Engineer magazine, which perfectly combines her industry knowledge with her journalism skills, but she has worked on a wide range of UK and international construction publishing titles which gives her insight into broader construction issues and the role the geotechnics industry plays in these. Claire graduated from University of Portsmouth with a BEng in Engineering Geology and Geotechnics and worked in industry for three years with Peter Brett Associates before moving into construction journalism in 2000. Her journalistic skills were honed by former New Civil Engineer editor Ty Byrd at Barrett Byrd Associates where Claire led work on features and supplements for a number of publications and industry clients, as well as New Civil Engineer, Construction News and Ground Engineering. Since moving into journalism, Claire has helped launch and worked on Aggregates Business Europe and Transportation Professional, and also worked on International Construction, Construction Europe and World Highways magazine before joining New Civil Engineer’s sister title Ground Engineering in 2011 and moving onto New Civil Engineer in early 2020.

Creating homeowner value for sustainable drainage systems

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Sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) are an important tool in helping developers to offer the environmentally friendly, future-ready new build housing that people want to buy. However, in 2022, new research commissioned by Wavin revealed that public awareness of SuDS remains low. This is despite the fact SuDS are a key part…

First speakers announced for Flood Resilience conference

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More speakers are expected to be announced soon for the event that will take the form of a hybrid event with delegates able to attend in person at the venue in London or stream the content live online. As well as looking at policy and strategy, project case studies will…

Platform progress on Grand Paris Express’ deepest station

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Images released by Société du Grand Paris show the work being delivered by the Horizon consortium on the Vert de Maisons station, a key interchange on the new Line 15 south of the Grand Paris Express project.

Horizon, comprising Soletanche Bachy France, Bessac, Soletanche Bachy Tunnel and Bouygues Construction, is building…

Balfour Betty bags £196M North Carolina roads upgrade deal

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North Carolina Department of Transportation’s (NCDOT’s) planned upgrade of Interstate US 70 will be undertaken on a design and build basis by Balfour Beatty following award of a US$242M (£196M) contract for the work.

Under the scheme, a 10km section of the route between the Havelock Bypass and east of Thurman…

Halfway stage achieved by both bores on HS2’s Chiltern Tunnel

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Both tunnel boring machines (TBMs) being used to drive the 16km long tunnels through the Chilterns for High Speed 2 (HS2) have just passed the halfway point on their journeys towards the north portals at South Heath in Buckinghamshire.

The Herrenknecht TBMs – named Florence and Cecilia – were the first…