Ensuring infrastructure is ready for advances in technology which will change the way we live is crucial to planning, experts have warned.
Having enough electricity to meet the needs of the ”internet of things” or ensuring there is enough 5G access on roads to support autonomous vehicles are central issues for the…
The ICE is launching a programme of events to celebrate its 200th anniversary next year.
The ICE 200 programme will feature the people and projects who have made an impact on society across the UK and internationally, telling the story of civil engineering over the last 200 years. The aim is…
Incredible damage to the primary spillway at Oroville Dam in California has been revealed, showing the scale of work engineers face this week before a vital power plant can be reopened.
Officials stopped water flowing down the primary, or main, spillway on Monday 27 February so that engineers could clear debris from…
The £4.2bn Thames Tideway Tunnel could have been smaller and cost less claims a new report by public spending watchdog the National Audit Office (NAO).
The report says that correcting inaccurate modelling predictions could have resulted in a ”smaller”, lower cost tunnel. However, the same report also acknowledges the government’s claim that…
Skills in coastal engineering are eroding, say those in local authorities. But out of these constraints have come creative partnerships.
Since the Coast Protection Act 1949 the management of England’s coast has been nominally split between what is now the Environment Agency (floodable coasts), maritime local authorities (erodible coasts) and private…
“High quality infrastructure drives economic growth, boosts productivity and raises living standards.”
“That is why we placed infrastructure at the heart of the Autumn Statement.” That is chief secretary to the Treasury David Gauke’s opening sentence in the introduction to an analysis published alongside the government’s National Infrastructure and Construction Pipeline…
The water industry is currently going through a lot of change, and is faced with some fundamental challenges: ageing infrastructure, population growth, resilience and affordability.
“These are four really big challenges that the industry has to balance, and you’ve got the customers in the middle of it all,” says MWH chief…
Precasting is being taken to new levels in building France’s longest viaduct using some of the world’s biggest kit.
Shark gun? Check. Typhoon shelter? Check. Scuba gear? Check. Ravings of a madman? No, just the checklist for anyone heading out to work on France’s latest grand projet. Grand it most definitely is.…
Pipe manufacturer AquaSpira is helping Scottish Water keep programme length and disruption down on two major projects in Glasgow.
The Lancashire-based firm is supplying in excess of 500m of composite steel reinforced (CSR) pipe to contractors working on the Shieldhall Strategic Tunnel project and the separate Clarence Gardens SR15 scheme. In…
Plans for a £9M sewer pipe project to improve water quality in a Cheshire lake are have cleared to proceed without an environmental assessment, United Utilities has said.
In October last year a sewer pipe route was revised to avoid environmentally sensitive areas in Rostherne Mere, a site of special scientific…
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