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Flood defences: Ground investigations and monitoring progress on River Thames Scheme
Complex ground investigation and monitoring work has been carried out on water and land for a flood alleviation scheme along the River...
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Geo Con
Dec 13, 20231 min read


Grouting: Building connections between the HS2 Chiltern tunnels
HS2's Chiltern tunnels run through permeable chalk requiring extensive ground treatment, including grouting of the tunnel cross passages....
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Geo Con
Dec 12, 20231 min read


Ground investigations progress for community wind farms on Orkney Islands
Central Alliance has completed GI works for two developments as part of Orkney Islands Council’s onshore community wind farm project....
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Dec 11, 20231 min read


Bouygues-Murphy team wins £1.34bn Lower Thames Crossing tunnelling contract
National Highways has awarded the Lower Thames Crossing tunnels and approaches contract to the Bouygues Travaux Publics and Murphy JV....
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Dec 8, 20231 min read


HS2 seeks enabling works contractor for automated people mover
HS2 Ltd has begun the search for a contractor to lead the £2M enabling works programme for the new Solihull automated people mover. Click...
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Dec 7, 20231 min read


Ground improvement: Cross passage freezing in the Silvertown Tunnel
Engineers working on the Silvertown Tunnel in East London have used ground freezing to excavate several cross passages for the twin bore...
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Dec 6, 20231 min read


National Grid goes to market with £12.8bn HVDC civils framework
National Grid is looking to establish a high voltage direct current (HVDC) major works and civils framework that will enable the...
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Geo Con
Dec 5, 20231 min read


Emergency work begins to stabilise ‘precarious’ railway cutting in Surrey
Network Rail is carrying out urgent repairs to stabilise a railway cutting in Surrey after significant cracks up to 1m deep appeared in...
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Dec 4, 20231 min read


Lower Thames Crossing boss says UK megaprojects face delays due to planning hurdles
While the tunnelling contract for the £9bn Lower Thames Crossing is soon to be awarded, the project’s executive director has said that UK...
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Geo Con
Dec 1, 20231 min read


Revised ICE Manual of Geotechnical Engineering published
Emerald Publishing has released a new edition of the ICE Manual of Geotechnical Engineering, which includes the latest guidance documents...
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Geo Con
Nov 30, 20231 min read
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