New Civil Engineer
13 December 2012
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A83 landslide mitigation options published
Transport Scotland has published the draft feasibility report prepared by Jacobs to look at options for the landslide-affected A83 route. -
Airport's access to all areas
Birmingham Airport’s new runway extension will allow it to offer direct flights to China and South America, and to achieve that aim the city council is diverting a road. NCE reports -
Balfour Beatty wins £200M Suffolk highways job
Suffolk County Council has named contractor Balfour Beatty as preferred bidder for a £200M contract to maintain its highways. -
Bam wins £220M Scottish Border railway contract
Network Rail has awarded contractor Bam Nuttall a £220M contract for the new Borders Railway in Scotland yesterday. -
Bauer wins foundations contract for Europe’s tallest building
Bauer’s Russian subsidiary has won a contract to undertake the foundations work for the Lakhta Tower in St Petersburg, which at 420m will be Europe’s tallest building when it is completed in 2018. -
Birmingham cable car plans being considered
Birmingham transport bosses are considering plans for a cable car in the city centre linking New Street Station, the Bull Ring and the Moor Street/High Speed 2 terminal. -
Blackpool Council awards Birse £55M coastal protection contract
Coastal contractor Birse has won contracts worth around £55M for the design and construction of Anchorsholme & Rossall Coast Protection Works in North West England. -
Brazil restarts high speed rail tender
Brazil’s National Transportation Agency (ANTT) has reopened bidding on its mooted £13bn Rio de Janeiro to Sao Paulo high speed rail line. -
Carbon storage database to be developed
The British Geological Survey (BGS) and Crown Estates are to join forces to create an online database of mapped UK offshore carbon dioxide storage capacity . -
Carillion expects big increase in profits
Contractor Carillion expects its pre-tax 2012 profits to “increase substantially” following a rescaling of its UK construction operations, the firm’s trading update said today. -
Casing the joint
Cased secant piling is proving to be an effective solution for a three level basement at Berkely Homes Ebury Square development. NCE reports -
Cleveland Bridge wins Forth Replacement Crossing contract
Steel fabricator Cleveland Bridge has this week won a major steel supply contract for the new £790M Forth Replacement Crossing road bridge in Scotland. -
Crossrail explosion hospitalises worker
A construction worker has been hospitalised by an electrical explosion while working on Crossrail near Holborn in central London yesterday. -
Crossrail suspends ground work following explosion
Crossrail has suspended all ground breaking work following an explosion on its High Holborn site yesterday. -
Davey lifts shale gas fracking ban
Energy secretary Ed Davey has today lifted the 18 month ban on the shale gas drilling after it caused two tremors in Lancashire last year. -
EdF delays Hinkley nuclear decision until 2013
Energy firm EdF has deferred making its final investment decision on its proposed new power station at Hinkley Point C until early 2013, the firm confirmed today. -
Fourth Crossrail TBM launched
Construction of tunnels for Crossrail are now being progressed on four fronts following the launch of another of the scheme’s tunnel boring machines (TBM) today. -
GE Awards deadline extended
Ground engineering businesses have another week to enter the ever-popular GE Awards and be in with a chance of collecting one of the trophies at the event on 25 April in London. -
GE Awards entry deadline draws close
With the deadline for entries for the 2013 GE Awards just 10 days away, now is the time to get your entry started or to finish off ones that weren’t completed before the Christmas break. -
Government's track record on flood defence spending criticised
The opposition has denounced the government for cutting flood defence spending since it came into power. -
Greater consideration of liquefaction risks urged by Christchurch report
Land development rules in Christchurch, New Zealand failed to take account of liquefaction risks, according to a new report published this week. -
High Speed 2 hits the High Court
Campaigners against High Speed 2 have been putting their objections to a High Court judge over the past eight days. Declan Lynch looks through the arguments surrounding the £32bn project. -
Highly challenging
A giant crane has helped shave 18 months off a key decommissioning project at Sellafield. NCE reports. -
Hochtief wins £812M Dutch PPP
Contractor Hochtief-led consortium has today won a public private partnership PPP contract to construct, upgrade and operate a major link road near Amsterdam in the Netherlands. -
HS2 legal hearing finishes
The five Judicial Reviews into High Speed 2 (HS2) finished in the High Court yesterday following a nine day hearing. -
It's cool for cats
Sir Ranulph Fiennes’ latest expedition is stretching demand on machines ro the limit, as Adrian Greeman reports. -
Keller confirms positive finish to 2012
Keller has issued a trading update to confirm that it expects to deliver revenues of £1.3bn and a pre-tax profit significantly above market expectations for its full year results. -
Letters: Learning to live with flooding
Global lessons: Communities in South East Asia make provision for weather extremesAntony Oliver (Comment, 29 November) raises the valid point that people who live in flood prone areas should take more personal responsibility for the protection of their property and belongings.I have recently ret -
Local authorities to spend extra £215M on road maintenance
Transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin today set out plans for the government £333M boost to road maintenance with £215M allocated to local authorities. -
New £11M Leeds Bradford airport terminal extension opens
Foreign secretary William Hague opened a new £11M airport terminal development at Leeds Bradford airport on Friday, increasing the size of the departure lounge by 65%. -
New plans for gas-fired power
Energy secretary Ed Davey unveiled plans to construct up to 26GW capacity of new gas-fired power stations in Gas Generation Strategy which was published alongside the Autumn Statement. -
Norfolk County Council tenders up to £780M of highways maintenance contracts
Norfolk County Council is seeking a contractor for civil engineering works in its environmental, transport and development services. -
Ofgem earmarks £24.2bn to upgrade grid
Energy regulator Ofgem has today announced £24.2bn will be spent upgrading the country’s gas and electricity networks over the next eight years. -
Programme management: Fast track delivery
Programme management is seen by many as something of a dark art; hard to qualify and harder still to quantify the value it brings. NCE teams up with international consultancy and construction company Mace to demystify the practice. -
Protestors block Bexhill link road construction
Tree-climbing environmental activists evoking the spirit of Swampy forced East Sussex County Council to stop work on the £86M Bexhill to Hasting link road over the weekend. -
Roads drive off with Osborne's funding
Roads schemes worth £1.5bn, including a major upgrade of the A1 previously canned for being too expensive, were the big winners in chancellor George Osborne’s Autumn Statement last week. -
Rock solid testing
Rock falls can have a serious impact on infrastructure, but designing systems to protect the public from the effects is not straightforward as Claire Symes finds out. -
Scotland’s poster boy wins place at international geotechnical conference
University of Edinburgh PhD student David Connolly is celebrating double success after his win at a regional competition helped him to secure a place representing the UK at an international geotechnical conference. -
Six who make the difference
It was all about praising and rewarding graduates last week as the finalists in NCE’s annual Graduate Awards shared a record £4,000 prize pot at the presentation lunch. David Hayward profiles the winners -
TfL approves draft businss plan
The Transport for London (TfL) board approved its draft business plan last Wednesday and will now begin lobbying government for funding, NCE has learned. -
The bigger picture: Peter Dawson interview
Peter Dawson is Bechtel’s new civil business unit president based in London. He’s the most senior Bechtel man in the UK and he’s British. Antony Oliver reports -
Tube deal triggers first raft of new private investment
Industry bosses have this week welcomed news that vital private sector cash is finally set to start flowing into new infrastructure projects. -
Urgent action
Media attention following the fatal landslide at the Beaminster tunnel has put the local council under pressure to find a solution to the slope stability problem. Claire Symes reports.
