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2 days ago | 
geplus.co.uk | Thames Menteth
A cut-and-cover tunnel at Bourn Airfield on East West Rail’s proposed Bedford to Cambridge section faces site constraints but is the “right engineering solution”, the company’s integration director has said. The 1.5km long cut-and-cover tunnel would pass beneath the A428 and the proposed Bourn Airfield development and Highfields Road. The railway would drop into a cutting to enter the tunnel east of Cambourne station and Knapwell Wood Road.
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2 days ago | 
geplus.co.uk | Thames Menteth
Hampshire County Council has appointed six firms to its £4M geotechnical and geoenvironmental framework for 2025-2029. The chosen companies are TFW Group, A2 Site Investigation, Land Science, Ridge and Partners, Groundsolve and Ian Farmer Associates.
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3 days ago | 
geplus.co.uk | Thames Menteth
A market survey has been launched for suppliers interested in being part of the next phase of site investigations on the European Organisation for Nuclear Research’s (Cern’s) Future Circular Collider (FCC) project. The contracting authority published the prior information notice on 6 May.
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3 days ago | 
geplus.co.uk | Thames Menteth
Fugro has been awarded a contract to perform geotechnical surveys for the eastern array of the Dogger Bank South (DBS) offshore wind farms. The DBS scheme led by RWE and Masdar aims to develop one of the UK's most powerful offshore wind energy projects. The investigations will provide data on subsurface conditions at planned locations of wind turbines, inter-array cable routes and platform foundations, directly informing the design of the wind farms.
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1 week ago | 
geplus.co.uk | Thames Menteth
The main section of the Brenner Base tunnel on the Italian side is now 95% completed after a tunnel boring machine (TBM) finished a tricky drive beneath the Alps. TBM Flavia has ended its journey on the western tunnel of the Mules 2–3 lot, the biggest lot on the £13.2bn Brenner Base tunnel project.
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1 week ago | 
geplus.co.uk | Thames Menteth
Government officials, industry chairs, technical experts and academics recently participated in a round table on how subsurface data sharing can drive sustainable development. The round table event, organised by Atkins Réalis and hosted at the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), on 4 March “couldn’t have come at a better time”, noted Atkins Réalis market director for buildings and places Terry Stocks.
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1 week ago | 
geplus.co.uk | Thames Menteth
Caledonian Maritime Assets is seeking a contractor to carry out ground investigations for a major project to upgrade ferry fleets and associated infrastructure on the west coast of Scotland. The Scottish Government owned company, which owns the ferries, ports, harbours and infrastructure for ferry services on the west coast of Scotland, posted a contract notice for the works on 28 April.
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2 weeks ago | 
geplus.co.uk | Thames Menteth
The Planning Inspectorate has accepted National Grid’s development consent application for a 138km long electricity cable between Suffolk and Kent. The proposed Sea Link project is a 2GW high voltage direct current (HVDC) cable that will link Pegwell Bay in Kent to the Suffolk coast between Aldeburgh and Thorpeness. Around 122km of cables would be laid offshore, with a further 14km of underground cables linking to new converter stations at each end of the link.
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2 weeks ago | 
geplus.co.uk | Thames Menteth
Transport Scotland has alerted the market to a £250M procurement opportunity on the Pitlochry to Killiecrankie section of the A9 Dualling programme in Scotland, as main construction works start on the Tomatin to Moy section. A prior information notice (PIN) for the A9 Dualling programme’s section between Pitlochry and Killiecrankie was published yesterday (30 April). The estimated total value of the contract is £205M.
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2 weeks ago | 
geplus.co.uk | Thames Menteth
Early collaboration between a contractor and designer on the basement for a City of London block led to the reuse of existing substructure elements. In late 2023, construction company McAleer & Rushe was appointed by real estate firm Dominus to redevelop a five-storey office block at 65 Crutched Friars in Aldgate, City of London, into a mixed-use scheme. The new 21-storey building with an up to 10m deep basement will provide 782 units of student accommodation.
