Mark's blog
Transport minister heralds new golden age of the road?
2010 - year of doom, or new era of road building? Well, something to cling to anyway.
The sun's shining so get on your bike – but only if you're capable
With two days left in May and barely three weeks to the summer solstice, blazing sunshine has finally arrived in the capital - and with it the predictable plethora of “fair weather cyclists”. Should we be encouraging this hapless freewheeling amateurs?
The Great M25 mystery
According to a plethora of signs around the motorways of the south east, the £5bn widening of the M25 starts on Monday - so why do we know nothing about it?
News from NCE Content Editor Mark Hansford
Ignorance over structural behaviour identified as key factor in Irish bridge collapse
The official report into the collapse of the Malahide Viaduct near Dublin last summer has found a complete failure of railway engineers to understand what type of structure they were dealing with.
Mixed response to high speed rail plans
Lord Adonis’ vision for a £30bn high speed railway from London Euston to Birmingham, Manchester, Sheffield and Leeds has been met with a mixed reaction.
Luton Guided Busway project secures £89M funding package
Transport minister Sadiq Khan has announced a £89M funding package for Luton’s Guided Busway project.
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VT Group drops Mouchel takeover bid
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Costain to expand into consultancy and engineering design
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Official statistics reveal infrastructure bucking construction recession
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RedR begins essential training to assist disaster relief effort in Haiti
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Advance works underway on £295M Borders railway
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Balfour Beatty announces increase in profits and £14bn order book
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Balfour Beatty sells stake in two PFI concessions in return for £21M war chest
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Councils told to save by selling buildings and sharing services
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Thames Tunnel project to be referred to Infrastructure Planning Commission
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Irish infrastructure needs "urgent" work, say engineers
Industry in-depth from NCE Content Editor Mark Hansford
Damage limitation: Lessons from Cumbria
Last November’s devastating floods in Cumbria once again raised the question of whether extreme events can - or should - be engineered against. Mark Hansford examines the options.
Mark Hansford
Mark Hansford is Content Editor of New Civil Engineer.
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Since joining NCE, I have been the first construction journalist into Iraq following the second Gulf War (and won IBP News Reporter of the Year as a result), was on the scene in tsunami-struck Sri Lanka, reported on a fatal bridge collapse in Portugal, covered a tunnel blaze in Baltimore, and exposed fundamental design failings in the Windsor's Jubilee River.
I am now responsible for the day-to-day running of NCE online and on-page.
Email me: mark.hansford@emap.com
