Author Archives: Rob Horgan

A major refurbishment of the Rotherhithe Tunnel will now not take place until the Silvertown Tunnel is opened in 2025.

Transport for London (TfL) is holding off on the Rotherhithe Tunnel job due to capacity concerns across the River Thames, board agenda papers released ahead of this week’s Programme’s and Investment…

Bridge design engineers, architects and their clients are being urged to “address easy access” to structures early in the design phase to prevent “thrill seekers” from scaling structures once they are built.

The recommendation has been made by UK structural safety body CROSS in response to reports of an increased number…

Material and labour shortages coupled with rising inflation is causing issues for Transport for London’s (TfL) Silvertown Tunnel project.

TfL’s direct capital costs are currently estimated to run £12M over budget. The opening date for the East London road tunnel has also been pushed back by a month, according to meeting…

Conventional steel and concrete has been replaced with basalt reinforcement and low carbon concretes for the construction of new guidewall on the London Tunnels section of High Speed 2 (HS2).

Believed to be a UK first, the new guidewall has led to a reduction in embodied carbon of more than 50%.…

The former chief executive of Amey Andy Milner will return to head up the firm after ownership has been transferred from Ferrovial to Buckthorn and One Equity Partners.

Ferrovial reached an agreement to sell Amey to Buckthorn/One Equity Partners for £400M in October. Completion of the deal is subject to regulatory…

The government’s decision to approve plans for a £165M deep coal mine in Cumbria has been labelled as “completely unnecessary”, “a shocker of a decision” and “entirely wrong” by climate scientists, steel manufacturers and engineers alike.

Chairman of the Climate Change Committee Lord Deben went as far as saying that the…

The boss of a Scottish-based civil engineering firm has been banned from taking up director positions for 11 years after abusing Covid support loans.

Glasgow based John Gerard McGarvey, 37, from Rutherglen, claimed two separate Bounce Back Loans totalling £100,000, and then used the money for personal benefit. McGarvey was the…

Chairman of the Climate Change Committee Lord Deben has condemned the government’s decision to approve a new deep coal mine in Cumbria.

Plans for the £165M coal mine were given the green light by communities secretary Michael Gove yesterday after years of political and legal wrangling. It will be the first…

National Highways infilled a 175-year-old Yorkshire bridge based on a capacity assessment carried out three years prior.

A Freedom of Information (FoI) request submitted by campaigners reveals that the Rugate Road Bridge was infilled in April 2021 despite the lack of a recent condition report. National Highways confirmed to NCE that…

National Highways and HS2 Ltd are looking to extend a low carbon reinforced concrete trial following its initial success.

The trial, led by Skanska alongside the National Composites Centre, Tarmac and Basalt Technologies, was carried out at Skanska’s M42 junction 6 project for National Highways. The trial involved the construction of…