Author Archives: Gavin Pearson

Persistent issues in the road sector include serious cost challenges for local authorities, design manual limits for engineers and questions about delivery capacity, NCE has heard.

Speaking at NCE’s water conference in London on 20 June, Darch explained that the scale of growing demand must not be under-estimated. “Anglian Water is engaging with a number of different pressures on our demand – East of England is the fastest growing region by population,” he said. “It is…

Innovation in the water sector is vital to meeting future water demand and fostering this while maintaining reliable supply is an ongoing challenge, according to Northumbrian Water head of innovation Angela MacOscar.

The nature of post-Covid recovery for the UK aviation sector will put pressure on capital projects, British Aviation Group (BAG) deputy chair Jane Thompson has warned.

Hull City Council has appointed Esh Construction and Mason Clark Associates to progress design, repair and strengthening of the Drypool Bridge.

Advances in tunnelling techniques and technologies have opened up new applications and opportunities for a greater use of smaller tunnels, often built with automated tunnel boring machines (TBMs). Not that smaller tunnels are always so small. One such tunnel has a diameter of less than 5m but is 36.7km long…

Engineers can be forgiven for feeling besieged by widespread narratives of cost overruns, delays and cancellations. Our industry also faces real capacity challenges with evergrowing public demands and difficulties securing the skills base and supply chains required to meet those demands.

Be careful what you wish for, you might just get it. That is probably how water industry engineers feel about their five year AMP8 spending programme right now. Capital budgets are going to double compared to AMP7 and engineers are charged with somehow scaling up delivery capacity before new work…

Work by Autodesk and Deloitte Access Economics has found the UK leads other European countries on construction data but that progress is being hampered by lack of integration and challenges in training those who will increasingly need to use it.

Launched by the government in October 2011, the Green Construction Board has provided expert advice for industry and government for more than a decade. In 2016 it joined forces with the ICE to produce PAS 2080, the world’s first specification for decarbonising buildings and infrastructure.