Sotiris Kanaris

2 weeks ago | newcivilengineer.com | Sotiris Kanaris

Water companies often have to send teams to respond to water leakages or pollution incidents caused by the collapse of ageing assets. “Companies go and fix the problem that is there,” says Anglian Water chief engineer Mark Froggatt, but he urges the industry to look beyond a short-term fix. “You sometimes need to take a slightly higher-level look and ask, ‘Is there anything else that we can benefit from while we’re doing this?

2 weeks ago | newcivilengineer.com | Sotiris Kanaris

A rare tunnelling method is being deployed to build a 650m section of the Casalnuovo Tunnel which lies within an aquifer, as part of the Naples-Bari high-speed rail project in Italy. Train travel between Naples and Bari in southern Italy currently follows an indirect route and takes more than four hours, meaning most people and freight movements take place via the road network. The under-construction Naples-Bari high-speed rail line aims to generate a modal shift.

1 month 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.

1 month 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).

2 months 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.