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Piling: Complex culvert repairs in a South Wales village
The dramatic collapse of an historical culvert beneath a South Wales housing estate last year demanded rapid stabilisation works and a complex £4M repair. Click here for full article Source & Image - Ground Engineering
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Geo Con
Dec 19, 20251 min read


Soil nailing ‘best solution’ to stabilise Swanage seafront
An engineering report has recommended soil nailing as the most effective way to stabilise a subsiding section of Swanage’s seafront, with project costs expected to be at least £4.5M. Click here for full article Source & Image - Ground Engineering
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Geo Con
Dec 18, 20251 min read


City of London planning applications hit 10-year high
The City of London Corporation has clocked its busiest year for planning applications in a decade as developers race to deliver more premium office space in the Square Mile. Click here for full article Source & Image - construction enquirer
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Geo Con
Dec 18, 20251 min read


Hunt starts for Square Mile £4bn heat network developer
The City of London Corporation has kicked off a £4.3bn tender race to find a development partner to design, build and run a flagship low-carbon heat network across the Square Mile. Click here for full article Source & Image - construction enquirer
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Geo Con
Dec 17, 20251 min read


Woodsmith project reaches 30km tunnelling milestone
The tunnel boring machine (TBM) excavating the mineral transport system tunnel (MTS) on the polyhalite project in North Yorkshire has reached 30km in a “major milestone”. Click here for full article Source & Image - Ground Engineering
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Geo Con
Dec 17, 20251 min read


Piling: New River reinforcement safeguards London waterway
Innovative land- and water-based piling techniques were deployed to tackle leakage along a stretch of the 400-year-old New River in North London while safeguarding local ecology. Click here for full article Source & Image - Ground Engineering
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Geo Con
Dec 16, 20251 min read


HS2 first as giant bridge slid across live motorway
HS2 engineers claimed a UK-first over the weekend when they successfully slid a 4,600-tonne viaduct across the M6 without closing the motorway. Click here for full article Source & Image - construction enquirer
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Geo Con
Dec 16, 20251 min read


£100m student halls to replace derelict London Crown Court
Specialist student accommodation IQ developer has got the planning green light to tear down London’s former Blackfriars Crown Court to make way for a major student scheme. Click here for full article Source & Image - construction enquirer
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Geo Con
Dec 15, 20251 min read


HS2 progresses cut-and-cover tunnel after road realignment
The next stage of excavation work on High Speed 2’s (HS2’s) longest cut-and-cover tunnel is set to begin after the realignment of a local road in Northamptonshire. Click here for full article Source & Image - Ground Engineering
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Geo Con
Dec 15, 20251 min read


‘The landfill tax U-turn is a reprieve but the real work on materials circularity starts now’
The government’s withdrawal of proposed landfill tax changes underscores the urgent need for coherent national policy on soils, clearer regulation to support circularity, and stronger integration of material considerations into planning. Click here for full article Source & Image - Ground Engineering
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Geo Con
Dec 12, 20251 min read
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