Home | New Civil Engineer https://www.newcivilengineer.com Civil engineering and construction news and jobs from New Civil Engineer Thu, 18 Aug 2022 10:29:00 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0 https://emap-romulus-prod.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2023/07/favicon-nce192x-70x70.png Home | New Civil Engineer https://www.newcivilengineer.com 32 32 https://www.newcivilengineer.com/wp-content/themes/mbm-mops-2017/images/logo.gif New Civil Engineer https://www.newcivilengineer.com 125 75 Civil engineering and construction news and jobs from New Civil Engineer Armitt calls for urgent measures to secure water supply as summer drought looms https://www.newcivilengineer.com/home/armitt-calls-for-urgent-measures-to-secure-water-supply-as-summer-drought-looms-09-08-2022/ https://www.newcivilengineer.com/home/armitt-calls-for-urgent-measures-to-secure-water-supply-as-summer-drought-looms-09-08-2022/#respond Tue, 09 Aug 2022 04:00:16 +0000 https://www.newcivilengineer.com/?p=246591 National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) chair Sir John Armitt has called for urgent action to help alleviate the risk of droughts in England due to exceptionally dry weather this summer which could become a regular occurrence due to climate change.

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Tilbury Douglas formally splits from Interserve https://www.newcivilengineer.com/home/tilbury-douglas-formally-splits-from-interserve-08-06-2022/ https://www.newcivilengineer.com/home/tilbury-douglas-formally-splits-from-interserve-08-06-2022/#respond Wed, 08 Jun 2022 13:00:53 +0000 https://www.newcivilengineer.com/?p=243665 Tilbury Douglas Group has formally split from Interserve to become a standalone contractor.

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Tideway boss set to take questions on Covid challenges at Tunnelling Festival https://www.newcivilengineer.com/home/tideway-boss-set-to-take-questions-on-covid-challenges-at-tunnelling-festival-16-11-2021/ https://www.newcivilengineer.com/home/tideway-boss-set-to-take-questions-on-covid-challenges-at-tunnelling-festival-16-11-2021/#respond Tue, 16 Nov 2021 03:00:02 +0000 https://www.newcivilengineer.com/?p=234531 Learning the lessons from the impact of Covid-19 on the tunnelling sector will be focus of a live interview with Tideway CEO Andy Mitchell at NCE’s Tunnelling Festival.

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Northern Line Extension business model could be used elsewhere https://www.newcivilengineer.com/home/northern-line-extension-business-model-could-be-used-elsewhere-21-09-2021/ https://www.newcivilengineer.com/home/northern-line-extension-business-model-could-be-used-elsewhere-21-09-2021/#respond Tue, 21 Sep 2021 05:15:41 +0000 https://www.newcivilengineer.com/?p=231859 Opening of the Northern Line Extension yesterday celebrated the completion of the construction but the use of private finance to deliver the project in a timely fashion should also be praised, says the project’s boss.

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Interview | John Larkinson, Office of Rail and Road https://www.newcivilengineer.com/home/big-interview-john-larkinson-office-for-road-and-rail-09-03-2020/ https://www.newcivilengineer.com/home/big-interview-john-larkinson-office-for-road-and-rail-09-03-2020/#respond Mon, 09 Mar 2020 16:06:46 +0000 https://www.newcivilengineer.com/?p=209405 Office of Rail and Road (ORR) interim chief executive John Larkinson has a mammoth task overseeing Network Rail’s progress through Control Period 6 (CP6), its current five year spending programme which started on 1 April 2019. And there is little doubt there are challenging times…

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NCE’s climate quiz – the detail behind the answers https://www.newcivilengineer.com/home/nces-climate-quiz-the-detail-behind-the-answers-01-02-2020/ https://www.newcivilengineer.com/home/nces-climate-quiz-the-detail-behind-the-answers-01-02-2020/#respond Sat, 01 Feb 2020 12:41:40 +0000 https://www.newcivilengineer.com/?p=208093 With UK government having legislated to accelerate the move towards a “net zero” economy and Glasgow preparing to host the 26th UN COP Climate Summit in November, the climate crisis is firmly on the agenda in 2020. But is the civil engineering industry ready to…

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