Lifting an overbridge into place over the East Coast Main Line in York has required painstaking planning and cooperation. It has also unblocked the potential of a major regeneration scheme.
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Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage (CCUS) has become a key pillar of UK decarbonisation, not just for decarbonising energy but for hard-to-decarbonise materials like cement and concrete. But this approach is not without its critics.
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Bridge launches are highly technical engineering operations that involve moving a pre-assembled bridge structure into its final position, often over obstacles like rivers, motorways or operational railways. While this method can reduce on-site construction time and minimise disruption to existing infrastructure, it introduces significant complexities.
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The Environment Agency’s shift from a project-based to a capital programme-wide approach for low-carbon technologies trials could become an exemplar of how infrastructure clients can accelerate the decarbonisation of their activities.
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With just two years to go before the 30-year PFI concession for the A55 Anglesey extension comes to an end, the final phase of works to repair and future-proof the historic Menai Suspension Bridge in north Wales has just begun.
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Brian Uy, the Sydney-based 105th President of the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE), who delivered his inaugural address ‘Structural engineering: past, present and future’ in January, has identified his key themes for his presidential year as structural efficiency and embodied carbon; technical competency and research; and registration…
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A 93m-long bridge crossing the White Cart Water is the centrepiece of the Amids South project, which aims to boost the local economy by improving transport links between an industrial area, Paisley town centre and Glasgow Airport.
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The proliferation of digital tools used on projects has helped improve many aspects of delivery, but it also presents challenges when bringing this data together for project decisions and eventual handover to the client when the project concludes.
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The duality of the built environment and the natural world is becoming more important as we are now realising the necessity for both to coalesce to provide what future society needs.
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With the construction sector suffering the highest rates of suicide in the UK, NCE speaks to associations, contractors and consultants about what can be done to improve mental health.
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The National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority (Nista) marked its first birthday in April – a celebration possibly short on cake, but visibly long on ambition.
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For years, the water sector has faced a continuous cycle of peaks and troughs of work, with projects taking time to get started at the beginning of each asset management period. The scale of AMP8 has heightened the concerns about it happening again.
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With the High Speed 2 (HS2) rail line route intercepting a section of the A422 road between Brackley and Buckingham, a new overbridge is being constructed to allow the trains to run underneath the motorway.
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The first-ever Sir John Armitt Prize, awarded to a project deemed the exemplar for delivery across all aspects, was won by the Southsea Coastal Scheme – Frontage 4 & 5. The project was recognised for being “more than a coastal defence”, as it successfully integrated flood…
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“I have been in the industry for 34 years now, working predominantly for engineering design consultancies,” says Tony Gee and Partners chief executive officer Alasdair Fowler. “The older I get the more important I believe civil engineering is to the world. We are tasked with…
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Constructing a 6km breakwater with the deepest foundations in Europe is an engineering feat, not only because of the scale of the works, but also for the technical expertise and logistics required to execute its multiple phases.
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No infrastructure sector was as profoundly hit by the pandemic as the airports sector. Even while the UK government attempted to avoid implementing shutdown measures, airlines had to cancel flights and the closures that followed took a long time to recover from.
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Spanning 1,300km, the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (Dune) at the Long Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) will be a very big project to study unfathomably small sub-atomic particles. Then again, what the experiment could tell us about existence itself is gargantuan.
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Late last year, The Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (Ciwem) published its Sponge Cities briefing note advocating the widespread adoption of the sponge city concept across the UK.
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More than 500 bridges across the UK railway network are identified as being at high risk of damage from scour; when river levels rise above a specified depth, they have to be closed to traffic.
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Ayesa head of ground engineering and tunnelling Cláudio Cabral Dias warns that while subsurface 3D mapping is increasingly vital for successful projects, changing how industry works requires companies to plan for retraining their people.
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Data centres are sprouting up across the UK, signalling the new cloud-based computing muscle behind artificial intelligence (AI) in this country and internationally.
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“When I first established the Shared Island Unit in the Department of the Taoiseach, there was one project that was always front and centre of my mind – the Narrow Water Bridge,” said Micheál Martin when construction works started in May 2024. At the time…
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A decade after works began, the expansion of the Midlands Metro is changing the urban landscape in Birmingham and beyond.
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Few industries have experienced a renaissance in public opinion and outlook quite like nuclear.
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