Will the next five years be a golden age for bridge engineering, or will inflation and skills shortages undermine the huge pipeline of work and progress towards net zero?
By 2027, we need to be doing things very differently. That is the central message from bridge engineers as they consider how…
The Canal & River Trust has awarded contracts for civil engineering works to seven contractors with a total value of £300M.
The charity is the owner of 1,582 locks, 55 tunnels, 2,970 bridges, 281 aqueducts and 71 reservoirs. The new contracts are part of its investment to maintain these historical and critical…
Representatives of the civil engineering industry gathered in the shadow of the Menai Suspension Bridge to honour Bob Daimond, who died in February 2020. ICE President Ed McCann (left) unveiled a commemorative plaque close to the bridge that Daimond spent much of his life researching and defending. He was a…
A 1,000t crane has successfully lifted a 42m-long footbridge into place in Cumbria almost seven years after flooding damaged the original structure.
Story Contracting oversaw the complex operation on the banks of the River Kent for Cumbria County Council. The Liebherr LTM1800 crane arrived on site in Kendal via police escort…
Repairs to a collapsed flood defence in Matlock, Derbyshire are due to start on Monday but will see a key bridge over the River Derwent closed for at least six weeks.
The flood wall collapsed during a storm in February but access challenges mean that Matlock Bridge, which links the A6…
National framework provider Pagabo has announced the appointment of 48 suppliers to its brand-new £1.56bn civils and infrastructure framework, which goes live on 1 June.
Suppliers include Galliford Try, Sisk, Keltbray, Kier and Sir Robert McAlpine. The new framework will run for four years until May 2026 with the option to…
Bridge collapses have been an ongoing topic for NCE’s news team right from the launch issue. The collapse of the Polcevera viaduct on the A10 in Genoa, Italy on 14 August 2018 killing 43 people and injuring a further 16 sent shockwaves through the industry. It happened just as we…
Modern methods of construction are about more than modular components and Laing O’Rourke is working hard to realise the full potential of the approach.
The latest iterations of modern methods of construction (MMC) bring together a number of different themes and practices with the aim of creating a high productivity, high…
1972 – Tarbela dam – Pakistan The 1972 collapse of irrigation and power tunnels on one of the world’s largest dams was caused by scour and poor design but was the first of several collapses that affected the project over the next three years. 1973 – Rio-Niteroi Bridge – Brazil…
Modular construction was the right choice for the world’s longest span suspension bridge.
On 18 March 1915, Allied naval forces attempted to force a passage through the Dardanelles – known to the Turks as the Çanakkale Strait – and go on to bombard Istanbul. Turkish shore batteries and mines defeated them…
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