Peter Reina

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London Correspondent at Engineering News-Record (ENR)

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Multi-Span Cable-stayed Highway Bridge Rises Over German Valley

Aug 16, 2024 | enr.com | Peter Reina

Tower cranes rising more than 320 ft above a valley floor in Germany are being used to build a multi-span cable-stayed bridge that will relieve the small town of Horb am Neckar of heavy through traffic. Originally due for completion in 2026, an accident during a large concrete placement will likely affect the schedule of the bridge, about 30 miles southwest of Stuttgart.
Multi-Span, Cable-stayed Highway Bridge Rises Over German Valley

Aug 16, 2024 | enr.com | Peter Reina

Tower cranes rising more than 320 ft above a valley floor in Germany are being used to build a multi-span cable-stayed bridge that will relieve the small town of Horb am Neckar of heavy through traffic. Originally due for completion in 2026, an accident during a large concrete placement will likely affect the schedule of the project, about 30 miles southwest of Stuttgart.
UK Plan for $5.5B Subsea Transmission Line Gets Government OK

Aug 15, 2024 | enr.com | Peter Reina

U.K. officials approved construction of a $5.5-billion largely subsea transmission line to send offshore-wind generated energy from northeast Scotland to northern England—the country's largest ever project of its kind and the first of many planned fast-track power links aimed to decarbonize its electricity system. Work on the roughly 275-mile-long, 2-GW Eastern Green Link 2 will start this year and is set to commission by 2029, with about 40 miles to be buried underground onshore.
HS2 Team Moves 1,700-ton Bridge Into Place Over Railroad

Aug 13, 2024 | enr.com | Peter Reina

In a five-hour operation Aug. 10, the team building the U.K.'s HS2 high-speed railroad slid a more-than-1,700-ton steel and concrete highway bridge over four existing tracks northeast of Birmingham. The contractor on that section of track, Balfour Beatty VINCI, hired heavy-lift specialist Mammoet to roll the 276-ft-long, 69-ft-wide bridge into place on two 128-wheeled self-propelled modular transporters.
Nuclear Fusion Pushes to Reach Commercial Power Plant Stage

Aug 5, 2024 | constructiondefectjournal.com | Mary Powers |Debra Rubin |Peter Reina |David Godkin

Nuclear Fusion Pushes to Reach Commercial Power Plant Stage Mary B. Powers, Debra K. Rubin, Peter Reina & David Godkin - Engineering News-RecordThe quest to develop nuclear fusion—the process that energizes the sun and other stars—as an earth-based power source dates back more than a century when Albert Einstein and other scientists theorized how enormous amounts of energy could be produced when atoms fuse.
New UK Regime Starts Government-Owned Clean Energy Project Firm

Jul 25, 2024 | enr.com | Peter Reina

The new UK Labor Party regime is creating a government-owned company to promote, develop and own clean energy projects—with an ambitious goal for a zero-carbon power system by 2030. Set to leverage private sector investment, the new firm, called Great British Energy, also announced a new partnership with the quasi-governmental Crown Estate organization that owns seabed in England and Wales up to 12 miles offshore to be used for offshore wind energy development.
New UK Government Starts Publicly Owned Clean Energy Project Firm

Jul 25, 2024 | enr.com | Peter Reina

The new UK Labour government is creating a publicly owned company to promote, develop and own clean energy projects—with an ambitious goal for a zero-carbon power system by 2030. Set to leverage private sector investment, Great British Energy announced a new partnership with the quasi-governmental Crown Estate organization that owns seabed in England and Wales up to 12 miles offshore to be used for offshore wind energy development.
UK High-speed Rail Pullback Limits Route's Capacity, Report Says

Jul 24, 2024 | enr.com | Peter Reina

In its current configuration, the U.K.'s new multibillion-dollar high-speed railroad, HS2, will reduce the system's capacity along the route by nearly a fifth, according to a new assessment by the official National Audit Office. The impairment follows last year’s cancellation by the former Conservative government of the line's roughly 150-km Birmingham-Manchester section.
Complex Scottish Double-leaf Swing Bridge Nears Completion

Jul 17, 2024 | enr.com | Peter Reina

As much a machine as a structure, an intricate 184-m-long double-leaf swing bridge is nearing completion in Scotland. Its twin halves were built separately in Belgium and Netherlands and barged, complete with stressed stay cables, to the River Clyde, near Glasgow. Rotating on vast cylindrical slewing bearings on either riverbank, the bridge's two decks are to project 65 m toward each other over the river. Their 27-m-long back spans incorporate 500 tonnes of counterweights.
Fusion Power Seeks Fast Forward to Reach Commercial Plant Stage

Jun 27, 2024 | enr.com | Mary B. Powers |Debra K. Rubin |Peter Reina |David Godkin

The quest to develop nuclear fusion, the process that energizes the sun and other stars, as an earth-based power source dates back more than a century when scientists, including Albert Einstein, first published theories of how enormous amounts of energy could be produced when atoms fuse.That research was partly diverted for wartime priorities but later targeted to develop fusion for commercial scale energy—what sector proponents have called the “holy grail” for decades since.