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2 weeks 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.
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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.
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1 month 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.
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2 months ago | 
newcivilengineer.com | Sotiris Kanaris
In December, Anglian Water received the Final Determination from the water industry regulator, Ofwat, in response to its £11bn investment plan for the East of England for Asset Management Period (AMP) 8, which runs from 2025 to 2030. This will be the highest value of investment on record in a single AMP period for the water company.
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2 months ago | 
newcivilengineer.com | Sotiris Kanaris
In December, the handover of Everton FC’s new 52,888-capacity stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock took place, three and a half years after the project commenced. Also, in North West England, the expansion of Manchester City’s Etihad Stadium, which will increase its capacity by 7,900 to nearly 62,000 seats, is progressing.
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
newcivilengineer.com | Sotiris Kanaris
Transforming historic buildings into the new London Museum has been challenging due to design unknowns and the extensive temporary works required to maintain their structural integrity during demolition and construction operations. In December 2022, London Museum – formerly known as Museum of London – shut its site at the London Wall, as works for its new venue began.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
newcivilengineer.com | Sotiris Kanaris
Pumped storage hydropower (PSH) is a fantastic tool that’s being used more and more by grids around the world to store excess amounts of electricity for when they need it,” International Hydropower Association (IHA) senior energy policy manager Rebecca Ellis said during a recent episode of NCE’s The Engineers Collective podcast. According to the IHA, PSH provides more than 90% of all stored energy in the world and the capacity of operational schemes totalled 179GW in 2023.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
newcivilengineer.com | Sotiris Kanaris
Civil engineering’s rising stars have been crowned at the NCE Graduate and Apprentice Awards, held at the Institution of Civil Engineers’ (ICE’s) headquarters on 22 November. It was 27th edition of the awards, which were created to celebrate the talent of those early in their careers in the civil engineering sector. This year’s event was produced in partnership with the ICE and sponsored by Balfour Beatty, Binnies, Heathrow, Stantec and Taylor Woodrow.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
newcivilengineer.com | Sotiris Kanaris
A 1.2km exploratory adit has been constructed for extensive ground investigations to inform the detailed design of SSE Renewables’ Coire Glas pumped storage hydro scheme in the Scottish Highlands. It has been four decades since the last pumped storage hydro station in the UK – the 1.8GW Dinorwig Power Station in Wales – was connected to the grid, but the construction of new assets could be imminent.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
newcivilengineer.com | Sotiris Kanaris
Precast segmental viaduct construction for HS2’s Delta Junction required a challenge to long-established standards and led to the deployment of a UK-first installation method. In September, HS2 contractor Balfour Beatty Vinci (BBV) celebrated the installation of 158m-long, 1,100t railway viaducts over the M42/M6 link roads in North Warwickshire, the first viaduct structures to be completed for the Delta Junction.
