A new low carbon construction material made from sugarcane by-product is emerging as a promising sustainable alternative to concrete and bricks.
Sugarcane is the world’s largest crop by production and bagasse is what is left when sugar juice is extracted from it. According to international science journal Industrial Crops and Products,…
Engineers from EKFB (Eiffage Kier Ferrovial Bam JV) have commenced the sliding of the first section of the 320m double composite deck for High Speed 2’s (HS2’s) Westbury viaduct into position.
It is one of five viaducts on the HS2 route through Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire where embodied carbon has been…
Arcadis, Jacobs Mott MacDonald JV and Turner & Townsend have been appointed to Thames Water’s £160M Programme Partner Framework.
The three lead entities on the framework will support the utility company in the delivery of its Strategic Resource Options (SRO) programme. Thames Water named three big name joint ventures as technical…
The backlog of carriageway repairs needed in England and Wales will cost £16.3bn while more than half of the local road network has less than 15 years structural life remaining, a new survey has found.
This year’s Annual Local Authority Road Maintenance (Alarm) survey report has been published today, 19 March,…
Restoration of the Palace of Westminster will be “reasonably ambitious” in scope and take between 11 and 17 years with both Houses possibly decanting for the majority, the Restoration and Renewal (R&R) Client Board has revealed.
Preliminary reports into the crumbling Parliament building revealed that the degradation is worse than anticipated,…
Balfour Beatty, working on behalf of National Highways, was able to reopen the M25 eight hours earlier than scheduled after the efficient demolition of a motorway overbridge.
The London orbital motorway saw complete closure for the first time in its 38 year history between junctions 10 and 11 this past weekend,…
Anglian Water and Cambridge Water will look to submit development consent order (DCO) application for their £2.2bn Fenlands reservoir in 2026 with a view to construction starting in 2029.
The reservoir will be 48km north of Cambridge near the town of Chatteris and villages of Wimblington and Doddington. It will be…
The latest episode of the Engineers Collective is out now.
In this month’s episode of The Engineers Collective podcast from New Civil Engineer we speak to Julia Stevens, the chief executive of the Constructionarium, about how the facility is preparing budding construction workers and engineers for life on a work site.…
Bam-Hitachi Energy joint venture has been appointed by National Grid Energy Transmission (NGET) and SSEN Transmission to build the converter stations for the £2.1bn Eastern Green Link 2 (EGL2) offshore interconnector between Scotland and England.
EGL2 is an “electricity superhighway” connecting Peterhead in Scotland with Drax in England with 525kV, 2GW…
Construction of the Fehmarnbelt tunnel between Germany and Denmark has hit a milestone with the completion of the first 100m, which accounts for the Danish portal.
Once completed in 2029, the 18km Fehmarnbelt Fixed Link between the Danish island of Lolland and the German island of Fehmarn will be the world’s…
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