Author Archives: Gavin Pearson

Institution of Civil Engineers president Anusha Shah has launched a new Nature and People-Positive Champion Award to reflect the best outcomes and practices across the industry.

The rail network faces unique biodiversity and resilience challenges. Overcoming them could set the direction for wider infrastructure.

Plans for a 12km long, $1.3bn (£1bn) sea bridge in the Brazilian state of Bahia have taken a step forward with drilling work starting on land to examine ground conditions along the route.

There can be no question that considerable levels of decarbonisation are underway across the infrastructure and engineering sectors. The dramatic expansion of renewable energy has played a big part in that, and so has the emergence of new technologies and standards in all sectors. Projects like Ev0, featured this month,…

The River Thames Scheme (RTS) has called for candidates to come forward to deliver 8km of new flood channels along with new biodiverse open space for the public.

Sadie Morgan is one of three members of the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) to have been involved since it was founded in 2015.

A sustainable, safe and reliable ground stabilisation technique not widely used in the UK is experiencing significant success on the High Speed 2 and Silvertown tunnels.

The infrastructure story of the last 30 years has been the rise and rise of tunnelling, in large part thanks to an overwhelming willingness to adapt and improve every aspect of how the sector works. That willingness remains today, but a thriving tunnelling sector was far from inevitable in 1994.…

Jacobs has been selected by Cork County Council as technical advisor for the new M28 motorway.

Wiltshire Council has granted planning permission for National Grid to replace overhead power lines with underground cables beneath the North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).