New Civil Engineer
Paul Wheeler
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Challenging market
1-Dec-2010
Significant space and access restrictions at London’s Borough Market are among many challenges faced by Cementation Skanska on its work for the Thameslink rail upgrade programme, as Paul Wheeler reports. -
Prime movers: The spotlight on piling
28 January 2010
A tricky deep-basement in Knightsbridge is providing a useful showcase for Cementation Skanska’s Crossrail credentials. Paul Thompson reports. -
BIG ON RIGS
1-Nov-2004
GEOFLUID -
BIN THERE
1-Oct-2004
TESTING -
Endemic construction faults prompt early Singapore collapse report
1-Oct-2004
AN INTERIM report from the Committee of Inquiry set up to investigate the Nicholl Highway cut and cover tunnel collapse in Singapore (GE May) identifies 'glaring shortcomings in the execution of the Circle Line Project' The committee also believes, according to the report published last month, that these shortcomings 'are common to the construction industry' It calls for immediate action to prevent a repeat incident. -
How to cut it
5-Aug-2004
Image Making an impact -
Opening the floodgates
1-Jul-2004
Flood protection - Thames Gateway -
Rock art
1-Jul-2004
Geotechnics - Rock engineering -
Rock art
1-Jul-2004
Geotechnics - Rock engineering -
Rock art
17-Jun-2004
Geotechnics - Rock engineering -
Getting to the core issues
1-Jun-2004
Cover story Global warming -
Highway area had a history of problems
1-Jun-2004
PROBLEMS WITH retaining wall excavations close to the 1950s constructed Nicoll Highway are well known, engineers said. -
M6 pothole repairs promise summer chaos
20-May-2004
News -
CHILL FACTOR
1-May-2004
Global warming research has led to the Arctic Ocean, where teams of drillers will soon be battling extreme conditions to recover sediment cores from deep below the ice. Paul Wheeler reports. -
INTO THE LIMELIGHT
1-May-2004
The outlook is good for the lime stabilisation industry despite recent well publicised setbacks. -
LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL
1-Apr-2004
MARKET TRENDS -
One of the crowd
4-Mar-2004
Simulation software -
A tale of two trenches
1-Mar-2004
CONTAMINATED LAND -
Pushing the boundaries
1-Mar-2004
PILING & FOUNDATIONS -
Top to bottom
1-Mar-2004
BASEMENTS -
Major structures taken out of Portsmouth's PFI highways contract
19-Feb-2004
News -
Tories rack up pressure on transport spending
19-Feb-2004
News -
Grounds for optimism
1-Feb-2004
EDUCATION & TRAINING -
Second helpings
1-Jan-2004
Foundations Sustainability -
Second helpings
1-Jan-2004
Foundations Sustainability -
Gone West
11-Dec-2003
Foundations Introduction -
Second helpings
11-Dec-2003
Foundations Sustainability -
On the waterfront
1-Nov-2003
Bioengineering Thesen Island -
Weighing the evidence
1-Nov-2003
Keller insists its recent decision to pull out of large diameter bored piling will improve, not weaken, its UK operations. Paul Wheeler spoke to managing director Alan Bell. -
Steel in the limelight
2-Oct-2003
Site rolled steel profiles are making a major contribution to sustainability on a landmark urban development in London. Paul Wheeler reports. -
Kent commuters face long wait for high speed London connection
18-Sep-2003
KENT COUNTY Council hit out at the Strategic Rail Authority (SRA) this week for stalling in its promise on the use of the new high speed Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL) for commuter trains. -
Natural high
1-Jul-2003
GEOENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING -
Clear as mud
17-Apr-2003
Geotechnics: Polymer drilling -
Information revolution
17-Apr-2003
Geotechnics: Self certification -
Keep on running
13-Mar-2003
Rail: Ground stabilisation -
Special K
1-Mar-2003
PILING & FOUNDATIONS -
Planning ahead
1-Feb-2003
Foundations Moorhouse -
Right from the start
12-Dec-2002
Foundations Moorhouse -
Squeeze on the up and under
12-Dec-2002
Foundations CTRL Contract 310 -
Masters of spin
7-Nov-2002
Earthquakes Research -
First cut is the deepest
1-Nov-2002
PILING & DEEP FOUNDATIONS -
Blast from the past
1-Oct-2002
SITE INVESTIGATION -
If you've the will, here's the way
26-Sep-2002
Your career Training -
It's the devil in disguise
1-Aug-2002
UNDERGROUND CONSTRUCTION -
Reasons to be cheerful
1-Jun-2002
ANALYSIS -
Goodbye. . .. . . hello
1-Jan-2001
This is my last issue of Ground Engineering.In seeking new challenges I will be leaving a job and an industry that I know and love. -
Tailored for a close fit
1-Jan-2001
A UK developer is ploughing a lot of money into ground works to fit a five storey block of flats onto a tiny brownfield site. Paul Wheeler reports -
Tailored for a close fit
1-Nov-2000
A housing developer is investing a lot ofmoney in ground works to fit a five-story block of luxury flats on a tiny brownfield site in Bristol. Paul Wheeler reports. -
Bump in the night signalled huge failure
1-Jun-2000
HEAVY RAIN over Easter is believed to have triggered a sudden massive railway embankment failure on the Highland Line near Culloden, 15km south east of Inverness in north east Scotland. -
Observations on geotechnical constraint
1-Jun-2000
GEOTECHNICAL legend Ralph Peck regrets trying to formalise the observational method in his Rankine lecture of 1969 - a landmark event in world geotechnics that led to the introduction of the observational method in the UK. -
It's a big village
1-May-2000
The UK geotechnical industry employs about 8000 engineers and generates a turnover of £1billion - but is still convinced it is an overlooked niche. -
Getting in step
1-Feb-2000
Access to position the piers was one of the most complex and time-consuming operations during construction of a viaduct on the Turin to Savona road as Paul Wheeler discovered -
Coastal connection
27-Jan-2000
Highways; Interchanges; Redesign of a complex new motorway interchange in Savona on Italy's Ligurian coast has achieved a 30% saving in project costs. Paul Wheeler reports. -
NCE International's land reclamation and dredging feature gives news of current projects and techniques from around the world.
1-Jan-2000
Land reclamation; -
Scattering predictions Imperial College's international predictions competition shows pile design remains a big uncertainty.
1-Jan-2000
Foundations; Pile design -
Foundations
2-Dec-1999
Scattering predictions -
Paul Wheeler believes the geotechnical industry needs to tackle the lack of geotechnical awareness within the construction and building industries.
1-May-1999
The UK geotechnical industry is generally very good at identifying its problems, highlighting its shortcomings and suggesting better ways of working. Look back 30 years, however and the industry was grappling with many of the same issues that it is facing today. We have been spectacularly unsuccessful in achieving satisfactory solutions to our core problems. -
Heathrow verdict fails to find the NATM truth
1-Mar-1999
Justice may have been served by the Heathrow Express trial, but have doubts about NATM been addressed? -
Getting the message Paul Wheeler looks at how good geotechnics can bring value to the civil engineering industry.
3-Dec-1998
The UK geotechnical community is on something of a roll. Post Latham and Egan, the construction industry is starting to think about doing the things the geotechnical sector has been talking about for over 20 years. -
Putting on a top hat Bachy Soletanche has set new levels of accuracy for placing plunge columns.
26-Oct-1998
Demand for plunge columns inserted with great accuracy within piles appears to be on the increase. In June Ground Engineering reported on a project where columns were installed with a verticality of only 1 in 200, and this has now been bettered by Bachy Soletanche which has just completed a project involving plunge columns placed with a verticality of 1 in 400. -
Island race Creation of the airport platform has been one of the major civil engineering projects of the decade.
25-Jun-1998
At the peak of its site preparation contract, Chek Lap Kok was simultaneously one of the most intensive dredging opeations underaken in the world, and the fourth busiest open cast mine.
