Working on a sliver of land in a busy urban setting would be a challenge for any highways project team, but ground conditions in Hull added a further level of complexity to the city’s ongoing A63 improvement scheme.
On paper, National Highways’ A63 Castle Street project in Hull city centre…
A simple but effective solution to manage long term hydrostatic uplift was implemented under a large basement box in central London.
Basement expansion is becoming the go to option for central London hotels looking to improve their facilities. So the technical solution used on Westminster’s landmark Old War Office building could…
A project to boost the resilience of Denver’s water supply will triple the capacity of Gross Reservoir by raising the crest of its dam.
Twenty years since Denver, Colorado almost ran out of water, a major scheme to address the vulnerability of its water supply is taking shape in the…
If the Coventry ‘very light rail’ system delivers the benefits its promoters anticipate, what are the implications for the UK’s wider urban transport network?
Construction of the Coventry Very Light Rail (CVLR) demonstration track has moved a step closer, after the West Midlands Combined Authority Board gave the green light for…
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…
What is known about the benefits and risks of using waste-derived plastics in highway construction?
With pressure mounting on the waste industry to increase the percentage of material it repurposes, the prospect of binding waste into highway pavements has moved up the agenda in recent years. Demonstration projects have been…
Energy security and reliability have taken centre stage in the UK infrastructure debate over the last 12 months, so what are the options for making the UK more self-sufficient?
The recent dramatic rise in the price of European gas, exacerbated by restrictions on supplies from Russia has created a perfect storm…
A new bypass on the Fylde peninsula will eliminate bottlenecks on the road to the port of Fleetwood.
Perched at the northernmost point of the Fylde peninsula in north west England, the port town of Fleetwood occupies a prominent position overlooking Morecambe Bay. In recent years the area’s economy has been…
The bald statistics for railway footbridges make sobering reading. It can take a year on site to build one. Only a third of the £3M to £4M it costs to build each bridge goes on the materials and the creation of the structure itself – the rest is contractor and…
This week Tim Heywood flew to Malaysia at the start of a year's secondment to a project management company in Kuala Lumpur. He swaps his job as assistant manager at Mace for a steep learning curve with his Malaysian counterparts at Baharuddin Ali & Low.
Heywood's aim is to find out…
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