Mark Hansford
Since joining NCE 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. My most moving experience to date was talking exclusively to acquitted Hatfield engineer Nick Jeffries over how he is putting his life back together after his five-year ordeal. Worst experience to date has to be getting lured into a night out in Scotland with the ICE graduates and students, waking up with a raging hangover with the grim reality dawning that I had missed my flight home. Never again. Areas of Interest Engineering disasters, design cock-ups and personal traumas are a staple of NCE, but fortunately are few and far between. Water and environment issues are my main area of responsibility.
Contact Info
- Tel: 020 7728 4543
- Fax: 020 7728 4666
- E-mail: mark.hansford@emap.com
Recent stories
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Government consults on new regime for planning local transport investment
Transport secretary Justine Greening is consulting on a new plan to devolve funding decisions on local transport schemes to yet-to-be-created local transport bodies.
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Hugh Blackwood: Strength in depth at URS
Scott Wilson is now firmly embedded in US giant URS but its world-conquering spirit lives on with international operations boss Hugh Blackwood. Mark Hansford reports.
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No.3: Kobe Earthquake
The Earthquake design codes of Japan, one of the best prepared countries in the world for natural disasters, were thrown into the spotlight on 17 January 1995 when the 6.8 magnitude Great Hanshin earthquake devastated Kobe, a city of 1.5 million people.
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