Civil Engineering is a branch of engineering that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the built environment. This includes buildings, roads, bridges, water and sewage systems, and other infrastructure. It is one of the oldest engineering disciplines, dating back to ancient civilizations such as the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans who built impressive structures such as the pyramids, aqueducts, and roads.
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Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering is a branch of engineering that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the built environment. This includes buildings, roads, bridges, water and sewage systems, and other infrastructure.
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Reliance on the railways is likely to continue to grow throughout the 21st century, but we must be careful not to bake in problems that stem from the past when we plan rail renewals to meet this future demand. Iain Ellis is rail technical principal at Mott MacDonald It is essential that we thoroughly consider the appropriateness of a ‘like for like’ methodology when it comes to upgrades and think more intelligently about how we approach the question of what’s…
HS2 Ltd will create a new post of chief railway officer and hopes to reform its chief executive’s salary as part of its attempts to keep costs under control. HS2 Ltd non-executive chair Sir Jon Thompson told parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Thursday, 16 November, that the move was based on learning from other schemes, as he outlined the chief railway officer role. “One of the lessons to be learnt from Crossrail is that you need to have a…
Each local authority can use its share of the £8.3bn to identify what local roads are in most need of repair and deliver immediate improvements for communities and residents. The funding is divided as: £3.3bn for local authorities in the North West, North East and Yorkshire and the Humber £2.2bn for local authorities in the West Midlands and East Midlands £2.8bn for local authorities in the East of England, South East, South West and, for the first time in eight…
The Albert Embankment cofferdam built out into the River Thames in central London as part of Tideway has been re-flooded – signalling the latest milestone for the £4.5bn super sewer project. The cofferdam along the Thames’ south bank in Lambeth was first created in November 2018 by building a wall of steel piles out into the river. Water was then pumped out and the void backfilled to create a solid platform to allow Tideway’s central section contractor FLO (Ferrovial Laing…
Plans for a fully integrated public transport system in Merseyside have moved one step closer with a new agreement with the government. An agreement has been signed by transport secretary Mark Harper and Liverpool City Region metro mayor Steve Rotheram, committing to the government working in closer collaboration with the city to make public transport in the region affordable and integrated. The agreement was signed at the official opening of Headbolt Lane Station in Kirkby, which was funded by £80M…
GHD has been appointed as one of the lead designers for Portsmouth Water’s Havant Thicket Reservoir project in Hampshire – the first major new UK reservoir in more than 30 years. First reported by NCE sister title Ground Engineering, the £325M Havant Thicket Reservoir will be designed to provide storage for excess water from the artesian springs fed by the chalk aquifer under the South Downs. It is being progressed under a partnership between Portsmouth Water and Southern Water. The…
North Somerset Council has given final approval for construction of Banwell Bypass to progress despite costs increasing by more than a third to £89.2M. Originally tabled in 1927, the scheme gained planning approval in March this year but was put on hold as cost increases became clear and the council needed to source further funds. The Banwell Bypass scheme will see construction of a new 3.3km single carriageway off the A38 to stop traffic congestion in the village of the…
The cost of building High Speed 2 (HS2) Phase One is moving closer to being less than the benefit it will bring, according to Department for Transport (DfT) analysis, while HS2 Ltd chiefs say the civils contracts give them little leverage to improve contractor performance. The DfT’s latest assessment has found that the benefit-cost ratio (BCR) of the London to Birmingham leg of the megaproject is between 1.1-1.8, with the lower end of the scale having reduced by 0.1 this…
The Great British Railways Transition Team (GBRTT) has made 30 recommendations to government on how the processes associated with the delivery of rail transport in the UK can be improved and simplified. Great British Railways (GBR) will be a new government body that will absorb power from Network Rail and also undertake an organisational role with the operation of train services too. It emerged from the William-Shapps Plan for Rail, published in May 2021, with the purpose of ending fragmentation and…
Northumbrian Water’s contractors are gearing up for over £15M of improvement works at various County Durham treatment facilities to protect water quality in the River Skerne. The utility company said it would invest more than £10M upgrading Chilton Lane Sewage Treatment Works near Ferryhill, as well as sites at nearby Fishburn and Bishop Middleham. All three of the works release treated water back into the Skerne catchment. The investment at Chilton Lane adds further protection to the sewer network in…
