Sotiris Kanaris

2 weeks ago | newcivilengineer.com | Sotiris Kanaris

Enterprise models can solve infrastructure delivery’s longstanding issues, according to the Project 13 Strategy Group chair. “Engineering, infrastructure and integrated delivery models. I don’t know how many years of my career boiled down to this simple sentence.” This is how advisory firm Allora Infrastructure partner and former chair of the Infrastructure Client Group (ICG) Dale Evans summarises his career, which was predominantly spent at client organisations in the UK, USA and New Zealand.

3 weeks ago | newcivilengineer.com | Sotiris Kanaris

How do you create a new underpass beneath a main rail line with only a nine-day possession? VolkerFitzpatrick and Tony Gee & Partners pulled off an impressive engineering feat at the Segro Logistics Park Radlett. Segro Logistics Park Radlett in Hertfordshire will provide 335,000m2 of logistics space served by a Strategic Rail Freight Interchange (SFRI).

1 month ago | newcivilengineer.com | Sotiris Kanaris

Learning from other sectors and breaking silos are essential in enabling the supply chain to deliver airport owners’ ambitious plans, Jacobs global market solutions director for aviation Cheryl McNall told NCE. Following the Covid-19 pandemic, the airports sector is rebounding; yet at the same time airport owners and operators must contend with a broad range of demands. “Airports are in a space where they need to do more with less,” she emphasised.

1 month ago | newcivilengineer.com | Sotiris Kanaris

Lessons learned from the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon project are improving the delivery of National Highways’ largest scheme under construction. Drivers travelling on the 14km stretch of the A428 between Cambridge Road near St Neots and Caxton Gibbet west of Cambourne regularly encounter the longstanding issue of congestion and delays. This is because this important link between the M1 and M11 is a single carriageway.

2 months ago | newcivilengineer.com | Sotiris Kanaris

A mix of flood defences are to be constructed along the banks of three rivers to enhance protection of a Scottish village prone to flooding, while an unconventional erosion protection measure has been deployed for future-proofing the assets. Comrie is situated approximately 40km west of Perth along the A85 trunk road and around 7km east of the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park in Scotland.