New Civil Engineer
25 October 2012
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Aecom latest firm to pick up Qatar work
Aecom has become the latest firm to pick up lucrative Qatar work from public works authority Ashghal. -
Anti-roads lobby unites to block roads revival
Anti-roads campaigners and green groups have joined forces with former transport minister Stephen Norris to attempt to quash any revival of UK road building. -
Balfour Beatty to repair Weymouth harbour wall
Balfour Beatty Regional Civil Engineering has been appointed by Weymouth and Portland Borough Council to carry out £3.3M of essential repairs to the harbour wall in Weymouth. -
Balfour Beatty unveils new structure
Balfour Beatty has completed an internal restructure that will see its Construction Services UK division cut from six separate companies into one business. -
Blockade closure to begin on Central line
London Underground (LU) is this weekend beginning a 12-day blockade closure on the Central line’s Hainault loop section in north east London to carry out vital repair work. -
Centrica and Drax scale back biomass plans
Energy firms Centrica and Drax have this week abandoned plans for three new biomass plants this citing lack of support from the government. -
CIWEM comes out against fracking for shale gas
The Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM) has broken rank with the ICE and warned against fracking for shale gas. -
Crossrail to scrap failed spoil hopper system
Crossrail looks set to abandon the ill-fated bespoke conveyor and hopper muck away system that catastrophically collapsed at Westbourne Park near Paddington last month. -
Crossrail: Eastern running tunnel TBMs lowered into Limmo shafts
Crossrail contractors are due to crane in the project’s third and fourth tunnel boring machines (TBM) at Limmo Peninsula in east London this week. -
Crossrail: Site constraints led to mobile hopper choice
The decision to use a moving hopper at Westbourne Park stems from a need to rapidly move spoil away from site, a source close to the project said this week. -
Cumbria's Northside bridge opens
Contractor Birse Civils completed the £11.2M Northside bridge yesterday in Workington, just three years after the original structure collapsed in major flooding. -
Dam collapse feared as locals oppose vital repairs
A listed Victorian dam in west Yorkshire could fail catastrophically if opponents block plans for a replacement spillway, engineers warned this week. -
Dash for gas protest at Nottinghamshire power station
Environmental protestors have disrupted operations at West Burton power station in a stand against government plans to build up to 20 new gas-fired power stations. -
Forum meets to speed up delivery of National Infrastructure Plan
A new Treasury-backed forum that is intended to speed up implementation of the National Infrastructure Plan (NIP) and get projects moving has met for the first time. -
Four bidders in for New Wear crossing
Sunderland City Council said four construction firms have been shortlisted to construct the £133M New Wear crossing today. -
Further consultation on new Thames crossings launched
Transport for London (TfL) has launched the second phase of a public consultation on a proposed package of new river crossings between east and south east London. -
Gatwick explores ideas for second runway
Gatwick Airport has announced that it to carry out detailed work on options for a new runway for submission to the independent aviation commission, chaired by Sir Howard Davies. -
Glendoe power station restarts
A public exhibition last weekend formally marked the restart of the 100MW Glendoe hydroelectric plant in Scotland. -
Grimsby gears up to grow
Once famous for its fishing fleet, Grimsby is now the UK’s busiest car-handling port. Declan Lynch takes a look at its latest expansion plans. -
Hitachi to build up to nine new nuclear plants in UK
Hitachi is buying Horizon Nuclear Power from RWE and Eon paving the way for construction of nine new nuclear power plants in the UK. The transaction is expected to be complete at the end of November. -
Hong Kong considers compulsory seismic codes
Hong Kong’s Buildings Department has begun consulting about plans to introduce compulsory seismic-resistant building standards in the territory. -
Humber Bridge's first project manager Ron Burns dies
Ron Burns, the first project manager on the Humber Bridge, died peacefully at home on 18 October. -
ICE wants Davies Commission to look beyond third runway at Heathrow
An alternative hub airport in the south east must be developed quickly if it is decided that Heathrow Airport cannot realistically be expanded beyond three runways, the ICE and the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation have said. -
Letters: Ring fenced taxation is the best way to pay for roads
Antony Oliver refers to the need for increased public taxation to lever in more money for roads expenditure (NCE 11 October). It comes shortly after transport minister Norman Baker’s description of a national system of road charging as “inevitable” in the Sunday Express on 22 September.The recent CBI report Bold -
Ministers urged to back carbon capture projects
Government failure to decide on a carbon capture and storage (CCS) strategy ahead of next week’s European Commission deadline will be a “lost opportunity”, developers said this week. -
New York begins assessing damage to infrastructure after Hurricane Sandy
Thousands of workers at New York’s Mass Transit Authority have begun to fan out through the system to inspect and begin repair of the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy. -
No.30 Sydney Opera House
Almost 40 years after it opened the Sydney Opera House is now acclaimed as an architectural and engineering masterpiece. It is one of Australia’s biggest tourist attractions, and is listed by Unesco as World Heritage Site. But, like many iconic structures, the building -
Poland revealed as European nation most at-risk from extreme weather
Poland’s transport system has been revealed as the most at-risk from extreme weather in a study of Europe’s 27 states commissioned by the European Commission. -
Rising to the challenge with BIM for Infrastructure
In the latest in our series of BIM webinars, this week NCE joined forces with software provider Autodesk to discuss how BIM can help engineers create better performing designs in a fast-paced, budget-constrained environment. -
Shortlist for UK's £1bn CCS competition announced
Four bidders have been shortlisted for the next phase of the UK’s £1bn carbon capture and storage (CCS) competition. -
Sign up to be part of something amazing – volunteer at The Big Bang Fair
In March 2013 The Big Bang UK Young Scientists & Engineers Fair will welcome over 65,000 students, teachers and families to ExCeL London. It now needs volunteers to make it the best yet. -
Six shortlisted for NCE Graduate of the Year
Six young civil engineers will next week each attempt to convince a panel 17 top construction company directors that they should be chosen as NCE’s 2012 Graduate of the Year. -
Tension cable structures: concerns over connectors
Cable connection integrity under the spotlight following out of court settlement in Doha airport dispute. -
Work starts on £450M London Bridge station redevelopment
Network Rail has today launched the start of work on the redevelopment of London Bridge station, described as one of the most “technically demanding” projects ever undertaken on Britain’s railway -
Work to start on new station for Wokingham
Contractor Spencer will start work next month on a new £6M station in Wokingham.
