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Environment |
#HS2
contractors have admitted leaking bentonite slurry into a chalk aquifer that traditionally carries water eventually supplied to Londoners – as the
@EnvAgency
faces a legal challenge over approval of the works
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#Engineering
Water running off roads in the UK is carrying pollution into the country’s waterways and causing “catastrophic damage”, but the issue has “flown under the radar” according to a new whitepaper
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Opinion: The development of HS2 was exemplary
✒️ Independent rail consultant
@WilliamBarter1
, who worked with
@HS2Ltd
on timetabling, capacity and operations costing
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Civil engineers have voted overwhelmingly against business secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg's plans to revert back to using imperial measurements for purchasing goods.
Full story:
#infrastructure
#engineering
#imperialmeasurements
Weekly wrap | 50 rail bridges and tunnels could escape National Highways demolition plans to become active travel schemes
Full story:
#walking
#cycling
#heritage
HS2 | A report has claimed that scrapping the £56bn
#HS2
railway project could free up funds for 28 other
#transport
projects including other
#rail
schemes as well as additional funding for the
#LowerThamesCrossing
project
SKYSCRAPERS | The world’s longest “horizontal
#skyscraper
”, built across the top of four towers in south east
#China
, has been topped out. The 300m long, 32.5m wide and 26.5m high sky bridge sits 47 stories above the streets of
#Chongqing
MPs scrutinising High Speed 2's (
@HS2ltd
) Phase 2b between Crewe and Manchester have been warned that the route passes over unstable salt deposits which hold up to 200 caverns
Full story:
#HS2
#infrastructure
#civilengineering
RAIL | The cost of
#rail
#electrification
projects could be slashed by as much as 50%, if the government commits to a 10-year pipeline of work, according to the
@railindustry
Association (RIA).
A coalition of transport experts and campaigners have written to the new secretary of state for transport, Louise Haigh, demanding that High Speed 2 (HS2) is delivered from Euston to Crewe
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The Department for Transport’s update to its transport infrastructure planning policy has been highly criticised by the
@TransportCttee
chair and
@TheGreenParty
MP
@CarolineLucas
for its disregard of climate-related targets
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Asset management |
@AECOM
has developed a new natural capital accounting platform which enables land and
#infrastructure
owners to better manage and value their
#environmental
assets
BRIDGES |
@networkrail
and
@balfourbeatty
have installed an hanging gantry below the
#ForthBridge
to allow engineers to begin repairs to the steel bridge deck after years of supporting heavy freight trains
High Speed 2 | Extending
#HS2
to
#Scotland
by 2032 has been identified as the starting point to decarbonise the country’s railways, in a report by the
@HSRailGroup
Collapsed Italian bridge had undergone 30 years of strengthening works and was subject to foundation works at the time of collapse
#ItalyBridgeCollapse
Bridges | The 1915Çanakkale Bridge, the world’s longest suspension bridge, has opened today in north-west Turkey
Full story:
#structure
#engineering
#worldrecord
Bridges | A contractor working for National Highways has been accused of entering a property in Dorset without permission to cut down trees as part of preparations to demolish a bridge.
Full story:
#bridge
#infrastructure
#CivilEngineering
Antarctica | A ship loaded with 4,500t of equipment by
@BAMNuttall
has been sent on a month-long journey to
#Antarctica
, where it will be used for building a new wharf at
#Rothera
Research Station.
Recently-restored Union Chain Bridge linking England and Scotland was formally marked yesterday with the structure declared as an Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers
Full story:
#bridge
#infrastructure
3D PRINTING | The world’s longest
#3dprinted
#concrete
#bridge
has been completed in
#Shanghai
,
#China
by Tsinghua University school of architecture.
The arched pedestrian bridge is 26.3m long, spans 14.4m across a lake and is 3.6m wide.
HS2 | The former chair of the Office of Rail and Road
@railandroad
has claimed that “no big picture analysis” of spending on
#HS2
@HS2ltd
has ever been conducted.
Rail |
@WSP_UK
will act as the lead
#engineer
on the £286M overhaul of
#Birmingham
International Station to provide a link to the new
#HS2
Interchange station.
WEEKLY WRAP | An ambitious project to build the world’s longest
#undersea
#rail
tunnel between
#Helsinki
Finland and
#Tallinn
Estonia has secured a £12.9bn private investment from Chinese backers.
HS2 Ltd and the Department for Transport (DfT) face a dilemma over whether to press ahead with construction of a 7km tunnel linking Old Oak Common with Euston later this year after the station project itself was put on pause
Full story:
#infrastructure
WEEKLY WRAP | Private investors are set to revive plans for a £1.3bn 320MW
#tidal
lagoon power station in
#Swansea
-
@TidalLagoon
have confirmed that several “leading brands” are lined up to
#invest
in the project.
A new scientific and operational support facility at Rothera Research Station for
@BAS_News
has reached a construction milestone with the cladding installed making the structure weather-tight.
#infrastructure
#engineering
#construction
HS2 | High Speed 2
#HS2
chair Allan Cook has revealed that
#HighSpeed2
was almost rebranded to reflect it solving a capacity
#challenge
rather than speed.