In depth

Piling at Ludgate Hill has provided tourists taking open top London bus tours this summer with a new attraction, but the team on site have been firmly focused on fast tracking the work.

Coastal construction work near South Shields will not only create a larger beach at Little Haven but also protect the area from frequent tidal flooding

Operating a rail line through an active landslide complex presents a high risk but Network Rail hopes to gain EU funding to assist with installation of an innovative new monitoring system

With a building to cover the Whitechapel shaft the only clue about the Crossrail work underway there are the lorries taking material to and from the site.

Doing 70 site investigations in six weeks sounds like a tall order, but that is what consultant SLR delivered for petrol station operator Rontec.

Contractors have overcome challenging logistics and difficult ground conditions to build an 100m long embankment underpass on the Heads of the Valleys road South Wales.

Many contractors now offer geothermal piles as part of their foundations solutions, but Balfour Beatty Ground Engineering must be one of the few to have designed, constructed and operated them.

Limited space and difficult ground led contractors installing 32 gantries on the M4/M5 interchange to use an innovative piling solution. 

Taking the Crossrail route from below ground to the surface presents some challenges. GE reports on the work at Royal Victoria Dock Portal

Ground and site conditions at the Port of Naples create a challenging construction combination for Trevi in its work to build a new container terminal while the port remains an active passenger and good destination