New Civil Engineer
Ruby Khan
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Interview technique
16-Oct-2003
Working lives: Interviews -
Awash with options
2-Oct-2003
Flood Risk ManagementClimate change threatens an 860mm rise in sea level over the coming century. Ruby Khan finds out how low-lying London will cope. -
Lawyers demand graduate contract law knowledge boost
1-Oct-2003
ICE news -
London beckons
1-Oct-2003
All eyes are now on CTRL Section Two, stretching 39km between Fawkham Junction in Kent and St Pancras station in London. -
Repeat performance
1-Oct-2003
Structures Moor House -
Birmingham protects roads budget with PFI
25-Sep-2003
BIRMINGHAM CITY Council said this week it was poised to set up the UK's largest privately financed roads project in a bold move to halt the steady flow of its highways maintenance budgets into other services. -
Contractors blast Network Rail's 'hypocritical' cost cutting plan
25-Sep-2003
CONTRACTORS HIT out this week at Network Rail's latest cost saving plan, which they fear will lead to widespread redundancies. -
Tying Newport together
25-Sep-2003
Highways -
Near miss as Swiss Re abseiler drops tool bag onto City street
18-Sep-2003
CONTRACTOR SKANSKA was fortunate to escape investigation this week after a tool bag fell 160m from the top of London's Swiss Re building, narrowly missing a pedestrian. -
Tale of the riverbank
18-Sep-2003
Cover story Waterways -
Accusations fly over CTRL Stratford station link omission
11-Sep-2003
A ROW has broken out in east London this week between Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL) officials and the local council over the construction of a mechanical link between the new CTRL station and the existing Stratford station. -
Darling reopens Crossrail options
11-Sep-2003
PROMOTERS OF the rival bid for London's £10bn east-west Crossrail link insisted this week they 'were back in the frame' after transport secretary Alistair Darling announced that he wanted to look at other proposals. -
Lawyers demand graduate contract law knowledge boost
11-Sep-2003
LEGAL EXPERTS this week called for an overhaul of the ICE's core objectives, saying that in their current form they leave graduates with a shallow understanding of contractual and legal matters. -
Barrier review follows M74 lorry crash
4-Sep-2003
RECENTLY BEEFED up crash barriers on the M74 failed to stop an articulated lorry from plunging off the road and on to the West Coast Main Line last week. -
First Engineering aims for rail dominance
4-Sep-2003
RAIL CONTRACTOR First Engineering aims to cut costs by £20M over the next three years in the face of Network Rail's efforts to reduce maintenance bills by 20%. -
Repeat performance
4-Sep-2003
Technical feature Moor House -
Speed cameras
4-Sep-2003
Rail safety -
Australian hangar collapse probe focuses on roofing
1-Sep-2003
SAFETY INSPECTORS investigating the collapse of an aircraft hangar in Australia are focussing on the sequence for placing the roof on the structure. -
Birmingham launches anti-parking red routes
21-Aug-2003
LOCAL AUTHORITIES in the West Midlands were this week preparing to launch the first congestion busting 'red route' parking exclusion zone outside London - in the Birmingham suburb of Shirley. -
Members will have to pass test to get safety card
21-Aug-2003
ICE news -
Confusion over plan to axe mail trains
24-Jul-2003
THE REASONING behind the Royal Mail's decision to abandon rail distribution was thrown into doubt this week after rail freight operators claimed they were left out of discussions on cutting costs. -
Route canal work
24-Jul-2003
Waterways: Restoration -
Thames Barrier faces winter closure by 2020 as flood risks rise
24-Jul-2003
THE THAMES Barrier will have to close throughout the winter by 2020 unless millions of pounds are spent on flood defences along the river, the Environment Agency warned this week. -
Australian hangar collapse probe focusses on roofing
17-Jul-2003
SAFETY INSPECTORS investigating the collapse of an aircraft hangar in Australia are focussing on the sequence for placing the roof on the structure. -
Marsh mellow
10-Jul-2003
Snaking forward, a 1km long push launched viaduct is on the final part of its journey across the marshes near Thurrock, Essex. Ruby Khan reports. -
Riders reject calls for rubber horseshoes
3-Jul-2003
HORSE RIDERS this week stepped up their campaign against slippery road surfaces with an attack on councils recommending the use of rubber horse shoes. -
Emphasis on rail safety leaves motorists at risk
26-Jun-2003
CAR DRIVERS are being put at risk by poor road design at the critical points where carriageways cross railway lines, road safety campaigners said this week. -
Longbridge crash victim of slow bridge assessments
19-Jun-2003
SLOW PROGRESS by Network Rail in assessing bridges at risk from vehicle impact may have contributed to a fatal car crash in south Birmingham last week. -
Employers accused of putting costs before safety
12-Jun-2003
ICE news -
Outer M25 could turn South East into Europe's Los Angeles
12-Jun-2003
PRESSURE TO build a new lower Thames crossing could trigger the creation of a second M25 by stealth, environmental lobbyists warned this week. -
Trackside work guidelines are backfiring say contractors
12-Jun-2003
NETWORK RAIL'S attempts to make trackside workers safer are delaying inspection and maintenance programmes, contractors said this week. -
Erection method probed in Canberra hangar collapse
5-Jun-2003
ENGINEERS probing the collapse of a long span lightweight steel portal frame aircraft hangar in Australia were this week focusing on a baseplate, which could have slipped outwards. -
The rolling stones
1-Jun-2003
Foundations Avebury stone circle -
Light pollution worsens as designers over-specify
15-May-2003
GOVERNMENT FAILURE to cap the intensity of lighting on highways and property developments is wasting energy and increasing light pollution, environmentalists and engineers said last week. -
The rolling stones
8-May-2003
Cover story: Foundations -
Perseverance pays for Halcrow in Merit finals
1-May-2003
ICE news -
Draft standard ignores lessons of Ramsgate
17-Apr-2003
PLANS FOR a new British Standard on maritime structures fail to address the lessons learned from the Ramsgate link span bridge disaster in 1994, a leading maritime engineer warned last week. -
Resurfaced roads put horses and riders' lives at risk
17-Apr-2003
HORSE RIDERS said this week that they were risking their lives on roads which have been recently resurfaced with a newly developed 'quiet' surfacing material.
