New Civil Engineer
27 September 2012
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Andrew Wyllie: Playing the long game
Driving profit growth by focusing on the biggest clients - at home and abroad - is keeping Costain chief executive Andrew Wyllie fired up as he celebrates seven years at the helm. Mark Hansford meets him. -
Areva pulls out of Horizon bidding
Nuclear reactor vendor Areva and its Chinese partner Guangdong Nuclear Power have pulled out of the bidding to own nuclear new build firm Horizon. -
Armitt to lead Labour infrastructure review
Olympic Delivery Authority chairman Sir John Armitt this week agreed to conduct an independent review of the UK’s long term infrastructure needs for the Labour Party. -
Arup opens two offices in Brazil
Consultant Arup announced today that it was targeting Olympic and World Cup work with the opening of two permanent offices in Rio de Janerio and Sao Paulo, Brazil. -
Atkins' UK workforce grows
Atkins has grown its UK workforce this year, it revealed in a trading update yesterday. -
BAA capital director Steve Morgan steps down
BAA capital director Steve Morgan has stepped down to be replaced by current commercial director John Holland-Kaye. -
Basement sector offers real growth potential
Demand for deep excavations is growing but new projects need to make more use of instrumentation and innovative techniques in order to meet cost and technical challenges according to Arup director Duncan Nicholson. -
Bauer to construct Hong Kong-Zuhai-Macau bridge foundations
Bauer has announced that it has been appointed to construct foundations for the Hong Kong side of the new 30km long Hong Kong-Zuhai-Macau bridge. -
Bauer wins foundations work for the world’s tallest planned building
Bauer has been appointed to construct the foundations for Saudi Arabia’s Kingdom Tower, which at 1,001m will be the first building in the world to be taller than 1km. -
Bids sought for £175M Humber renewable energy port
Client Able Humber Ports is today inviting bids to construct its new £175M port to support the development of the emerging offshore wind sector. -
Bids sought for Dartford crossing scheme
The Highways Agency has called for expressions of interest in a contract worth up to £478M to reduce congestion on the notorious Dartford crossing section of the M25. -
Boost for Olympic Park redevelopment
A key milestone has been reached in the project to redevelop the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. -
Britain fails to produce enough engineers
Britain needs to produce an extra 10,000 science and engineering graduates a year between now and 2020 if it is to keep up with demand for these skills, a Royal Academy of Engineering report said this week. -
Brownlie and Ernst create infrastructure dream team
British bridge design specialist and former Wilkinson Eyre director Keith Brownlie is to team up with renowned German architect Christian Ernst. -
Construction orders hit 30-year low
The value of new work in the construction industry hit a 30-year low in the second quarter of this year, official data has revealed. -
Criticism triggers review of Poole roads layout
An independent review of the controversial road layout around Poole’s new iconic Twin Sails bridge, which opened last March, will be published this week following months of criticism by locals -
Crossrail hopper collapse at Paddington
A hopper receiving muck from Crossrail’s tunnel boring machine near Paddington station collapsed yesterday forcing the closure of the adjacent railway line. -
Deep excavation works ease waterworks construction
Cost and complexity of redevelopment of a large waste water treatment works in Sheffield has been eased through the use of deep excavations in the placed of sheet piled solutions. -
Energy from waste plant wins approval
Energy secretary Ed Davey yesterday approved plans 60MW energy from waste plant in Lostock, Cheshire. -
Engineers urge action after MPs cast doubts on infrastructure delivery
Engineers have called on government to act after politicians from across the political spectrum expressed doubts about plans to upgrade the country’s infrastructure. -
Feasibility work for Saint Brieuc offshore wind farm starts
A consortium of Iberdrola and Eole-Res has announced the start of two geotechnical and geophysical feasibility investigations in the Bay of Saint Brieuc to provide foundation information for a new offshore wind farm. -
Flood warnings still in place in northern England
The Environment Agency (EA) has warned that the River Ouse running through York and the River Dane passing through Crewe, Nantwich and Northwich still pose a real risk of flooding today. -
Further flooding concerns follow Newburn ground collapse
The Environment Agency has kept 70 flood warnings in place today following two days of heavy rain which is said to have caused a major ground subsidence incident near Newcastle. -
Golder Associates acquire GCG (Asia)
Hong Kong-based GCG (Asia) has announced that it has been acquired by Golder Associates and will now trade under the name Golder Associates (Hong Kong). -
Government cancels West Coast rail contract
Transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin has today announced that the competition to run trains on the West Coast Main Line has been cancelled following the discovery of significant technical flaws in the way the franchise process was conducted. -
Government guarantees fail to kick start projects
Ministers face criticism as projects shun pump priming private finance guarantees. -
Heathrow’s extra £952M
Additional spend for 2013 given go-ahead by BAA’s Spanish owners. -
Hyder lowers UK expectations
Hyder Consulting has warned that its UK results are likely to be below expectations in the year to 30 March 2013. -
ICE lobbies at party conferences
The ICE is using the current round of political party conferences to stress the need for policies which will accelerate infrastructure investment and underpin growth in the UK economy.ICE director general Nick Baveystock is hosting fringe events at all three main party political conferences in a bid to keep the debate over infrastructure funding at the top of the political agenda.“All parties are now committed to infrastructure as an enabler to deliver growth,” said Baveystock, -
International contractors wanted for £4bn Danish-German tunnel scheme
Project promoter Femern is calling on major international contractors to prequalify for the construction of the €5.5bn (£4.4bn) Fehmarnbelt road and rail link. -
Isle of Wight roads get £487M boost
The government has approved a £487M upgrade of the Isle of Wight’s roads. -
Letters: Balancing demand with airport expansion plans
Heathrow Airport, aerial view of central terminal area, showing Terminal 2 the proposed site for the Heathrow East development, 12 May 2008, Image ref. CHE04984d. TRACKAIRLast week it was announced that a further five years of consultation was required before design work could start for the A14 widen -
Main construction work starts on Yorkshire wind Farm
Five new wind turbines with capacity to power 14,000 homes are now being erected by main contractor Forkers in East Yorkshire following successful completion of the piled foundations. -
Motts secure £71M Norwegian rail contract
Consultant Mott MacDonald this week won a €90M (£71M) contract to design a workshop and depot serving the Bergen light rail system in Norway. -
Network Rail begins value for money consultation
Network Rail has begun a 60-day consultation into the expansion of the use of tram trains, innovative ideas for electrification and extending community rail initiatives. -
New additions to Scotland’s engineering hall of fame
Four new members of the Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame were inducted at the James Watt Dinner on Friday evening. -
No.26 France’s first TGV line
At 6.30am on Sunday 27 September 1981, an unusually large crowd streamed into Paris’ Gare de Lyon, converging on the platform next to the first commercially operated train à grande vitesse (TGV). At 7.15am train number 807 departed ceremoniously for Lyon’s Perrache station: along the way, its 300 passengers would travel at 26 -
Paul Wiltcher joins Bauer Technologies
Bauer Technologies has announced that Paul Wiltcher has taken on the role of managing director from Michael Jones who has joined Bauer’s global business in Germany. -
Ramboll director appointed president of CIWEM
The Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM) has announced the appointment of Ramboll director Paul Hillman as its new president. -
Rampion metmast successfully installed
Fugro Seacore has announced that its work on installing a metmast for the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm has been successfully completed and the mast is now recording data for developer E.ON Climate and Renewables. -
Shale gas developer aims to start commercial drilling by 2015
Developer Cuadrilla hopes to have commercial scale shale gas drilling underway in Lancashire by 2015, the firm said today. -
Sherringham Shoal offshore wind farm opens
Norway’s Crown Prince Hakkon opened the 317MW Sherringham Shoal offshore wind farm off the coast of Norfolk yesterday. -
Slow progress delays work on London power tunnel
National Grid this week denied that work on its London Power Tunnels scheme to upgrade the capital’s electricity supply was running behind schedule.But one of the tunnel boring machines (TBMs) has only progressed 2.5km since its launch 12 months ago.The scheme recently celebrated the breakthrough of one of the project’s two TBMs - a 3m diameter dual mode Lovat machine named Evelyn - which has completed 3km of tunnelling since it was launched in March.Slow progress -
Talent Tracker
The construction equipment sector aims to recruit young people to the industry at next year’s Plantworx exhibition. -
Tunnelling halted on Crossrail following hopper collapse
Crossrail yesterday stopped one of its tunnel boring machines as its investigations into a hopper collapse at Westbourne Park in London continue. -
URS names American Tom Bishop as Hugh Blackwood successor
US giant URS has installed American Tom Bishop as new boss of its London-based international operations as successor to Hugh Blackwood. -
Velodrome engineers to set up in Brazil
The London-based structural engineering company behind the 2012 Velodrome is to open an office in Rio de Janeiro as prime minister David Cameron leads the drive for UK firms to win work in Brazil. -
Wind farm boost for Newhaven
Eon has selected Newhaven Port for the operations and maintenance of a proposed offshore wind farm. -
Work starts on mine stabilisation for new rail link
Remediation work to stabilise abandoned mine workings in Scotland is now underway in order to allow construction of a new rail line to start next year.
