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Plans in for first phase of £1.7bn ID Manchester
Development partners Bruntwood SciTech and the University of Manchester have submitted plans for the first phase of the £1.7bn proposed...
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Feb 22, 20241 min read


London £3bn housing framework out to tender
Tendering is starting to refresh the line-up of firms for a major London and Home Counties public sector housing framework for new build...
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Feb 21, 20241 min read


‘On-site HS2 secondment opened new pathways to develop my geotechnical career’
Jacobs' Lydia Blackburn shares the experiences of two young female engineers working on site for High Speed 2 and discusses the...
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Feb 21, 20241 min read


Work starts for deep d-walls at ‘complex’ Rome metro station
Construction work has started on diaphragm walls that will be up to 85m deep and will form the perimeter of the new Piazza Venezia...
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Feb 20, 20241 min read


First viaduct steel section installed at HS2’s complex junction job
Belgian steelwork specialist Victor Buyck has jacked in the first 300-tonne steel viaduct section on HS2’s complex Delta Junction...
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Feb 20, 20241 min read


Unite Students to build £250m Newcastle scheme
Unite Students has signed a joint venture with Newcastle University to develop 2,000 new student beds at the Castle Leazes site. Click...
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Feb 19, 20241 min read


Two more ‘sinkholes’ appear above HS2’s Chiltern tunnels
The sinkholes in South Heath are the latest to have emerged above High Speed 2’s (HS2's) Chiltern tunnels route. Click here for full...
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Feb 19, 20241 min read


‘Women make up around 24% of the geotechnical workforce. We are trying to do more to fairly represent them’
For more than three years now, GE has been involved in the BBC’s 50:50 Project aiming for more equal gender representation in media...
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Feb 16, 20241 min read


£90m Manchester zig-zag library approved
Manchester Metropolitan University has got the green light to build a landmark campus library in the heart of the city. Click here for...
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Feb 16, 20241 min read


Robot brickies a step closer to working on sites
A robotics startup has secured £20m in funding to scale-up the number of brick-laying machines it can deploy on sites across Europe and...
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Geo Con
Feb 15, 20241 min read
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