Development and investment firm Osborne & Co has secured planning consent from Glasgow City Council to create the mixed-use city centre development, following the submission of a detailed planning and listed building application in April 2020. The project involves the transformation of the City of Glasgow College building. In total, the mixed-use development will represent…
SP Energy Networks has invested £386,000 to carry out the trials of the new Thor Hammer, which has been developed by New Zealand-based global engineering firm Groundline. The technology will help linesmen assess timber poles simply by striking them with the hammer. It will be used as part of ongoing work to prepare the electricity…
Centrum Pile is one of the project partners The project is called Low Carbon Concrete in Aggressive Ground, or LOCOWAG. Project partners are materials supplier DB Group and its Cemfree subsidiary, Murphy Ground Engineering, Centrum Pile and the Building Research Establishment (BRE). The objectives of the two-year project are to develop, assess, and demonstrate alkali…
The HV Services division of Fundamentals will join the Freedom Networks business unit. The acquisition sees the transfer of 12 employees from Fundamentals to the NG Bailey group. It extends Freedom’s range of services in the electricity distribution network sector, including HV maintenance and renewable energy sectors. It also allows Fundamentals to re-focus its service…
The Ven. Elizabeth Adekunle The Venerable Elizabeth Adekunle, Archdeacon of Hackney for the Diocese of London, is one of three new non-executive directors joining Berkeley Group’s board. The boardroom shake-up at Berkeley, the first big reshuffle since the death of founder and chairman Tony Pidgley last June, also sees the arrival of William Jackson, who…
Within days of submitting his petition to parliament seeking to get HS2 construction stopped, naturalist and broadcaster Chris Packham has secured nearly 40,000 signatures. He needs 100,000 signatures for the petition to be considered for debate in parliament. Opposition is particularly fierce in the Buckinghamshire area, which has already seen trees and vegetation cleared away…
Winvic, aided by Collins Earthworks, makes a start at the Segro Logistics Park Northampton Gateway When complete, Northampton Gateway will comprise five million square feet of industrial facilities and a new strategic rail freight interchange (SRFI). Segro is investing £190m into infrastructure works, including new rail connections, upgrades to junctions 15 and 15a on the…
Dame Jo da Silva Dame Jo da Silva, as she now is, joined consulting engineer Arup in 1989 after graduating from the University of Cambridge. She was soon active in Engineers for Disaster Relief (RedR), a charity that sends engineers out on voluntary disaster relief assignments. In 2007 Jo da Silva founded a not for…
Cliff Smith Cliff Smith takes on the role that was held by the late Tom Barton since the (GIRI) was set up in 2017. Tom Barton, another former McAlpine man, died in October 2020. Cliff Smith is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and was with Sir Robert McAlpine for 38 years until…
BAM Construct UK chief executive James Wimpenny As a result of weaker demand and a financial provision, BAM Construct UK profit before tax fell 51% to £9.4m (2018: £19.4m) for the year to 31st December 2019. Revenue was down 2% at £930.5m (2018: £949.8m), resulting in a profit before tax margin of 1.0% (2018: 2.1%)….
