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Design schemes to minimise the need for disposal of surplus soil by incorporating its use in landscaping

For most of the country, heavy rainfall means little more than a soaking on the way to work and the prospect of being able to use the hosepipe in summer. But for people near the Thames in Berkshire, it brings with it the very real threat of another round of…

The Environment Agency contracts are fully designed and detailed.

The new channel will be developed into a natural environment. Where sections have already been dug, sand martins have moved into the area and kingfishers have nested. Fish will find their way in, and good provision is being made for angling, including innovative access for disabled anglers. There will also…

It was nicknamed the moon, a bleak, blackened landscape where nothing grew. But in a project under way on a former brickwork and tip site in Hednesford in the Midlands, a new recreational area is being created, with industrial units which should provide 650 jobs.

This month engineers at Gibb Wales have started to manage an intensive investigation into the quality of the ground at the old Felindre tin plate works near Swansea. The intention is to clean up the site and create the sort of attractive plot that no industrial developer will be able…

Images of the Golden Valley interchange near Cheltenham are bound to feature prominently on Cooper Clarke's stand at Civils 98. More than 700m of the company's new Bridgdek 2 twin channel drainage system will be installed by main contractor Jarvis Construction during its £3.8M contract to strengthen and refurbish the…

Civils 98 launch partner Marshalls will be using the show to exhibit its range of paving and building materials products. And included in the display will be three new products: the Bus Stop kerb to reduce the step up from pavement to bus, a new 'sinusoidal' traffic calming ramp and…

IT IS too early to tell whether the Highways Agency's drive to transform itself into a 'promoter of integrated transport' is an audacious bid to seize the political zeitgeist or the last, desperate, fling of an organisation fast losing influence and relevance (see News).

The words sustainable development contradict each other. The phrase itself - though possessing a nice ring when delivered at Rio - can best be described as triumph of hope over experience. Development, based on economic growth with its current reliance on fossil fuel-derived energy, is not sustainable, and anything that…