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This comment was written a couple of days after the announcement that the High Speed 2 (HS2) scheme will not be delivered in full.

The 2023 GE100 survey results are in and, as expected, it’s a mixed bag.

The winners of the 2023 GE Awards were revealed at an in-person awards ceremony on 12 July.

Coinciding with Mental Health Awareness Week in May, GE hosted its first editorial round table focused on how the ground engineering sector is handling the mental health needs of its workforce.

Ground engineering as a sector is made up of knowledgeable professionals and specialists – plenty of whom are also enthusiastic about the work that they do. And if you have been to any industry events recently, it is also clear that people are not afraid to ask though questions and…

I visited the High Speed 2 (HS2) Euston station site towards the end of January as pile load testing was being wrapped up.

This comment was written on International Women's Day 2023 on 8 March.

In the early hours of 6 February, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck south central Turkey, close to its border with Syria. Nine hours later, this was followed by a 7.5 earthquake around 100km from the initial one.

The construction industry was able to breathe a sigh of relief following chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement.

This comment was written on 10 November for the December 2022 issue of Ground Engineering.