The November issue of Ground Engineering features reports on Liverpool’s Festival Gardens site that has undergone remediations, and surveys carried out on an ageing flood embankment in Devon.
A-Squared Studio Engineers director Bryn Jones on the role of geotechnical engineers in unlocking brownfield development in the North of England.
The Historical Railways Estate (HRE), in partnership with Balfour Beatty and Edinburgh Napier University, is surveying its brownfield sites to assess the impact of earth movement during repair works on biodiversity enhancement.
RSK Asbestos’ Dave Sykes discusses the importance of the British Drilling Association’s new audit requirement for asbestos awareness training and the challenges the deadline of 1 October will present.
Haventus has awarded Bauer Technologies the quay wall contract for the redevelopment of Ardersier Port near Inverness – a project that recently secured a £100M loan.
The Environmental Protection Group’s Amy Juden on the geoenvironmental constraints that need to be considered in the development of complex brownfield sites.
Bauer Technologies will support main infrastructure contractor John Sisk & Son with piling solutions for York Central on one of the largest brownfield sites in England.
The Phoenix redevelopment scheme on the site of a former ironworks in Lewes, East Sussex, has been green-lit, with A-squared Studio Engineers providing geotechnical support and Expedition designing its flood defences.
Stoke-on-Trent City Council is seeking a contractor for ground investigations and historical coal mining risk assessments and treatment on a large regeneration project at Etruscan Square within Hanley town centre.
Curtins senior engineer Emma Scholes presents a case study of earthworks trials at a backfilled former opencast colliery site at Woodville in Derbyshire.
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