Amey geo-environmental engineer and Women@Amey co-chair Hollie Taylor was crowned the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Champion at the 2024 GE Awards and the Rising Star for her Contribution to Gender Diversity at the Inspiring Women in Construction & Engineering Awards.
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 large housing development on a site that was previously used as a landfill and has been deemed “toxic land” has been approved by Amber Valley Borough Council.
A look at how per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) can be identified during site characterisation.
A geoenvironmental report has identified large amounts of contaminants on a former gasworks site where 50 new homes have been proposed.
Deme Environmental and industrial service provider Mourik will give an additional €7M (£5.8M) towards two Belgium soil recycling centres, so they can clean manufactured chemicals out of soils.
Tunnelling work has kicked off on the troubled West Gate Tunnel scheme after an agreement was reached on a contaminated soil issue between the client and contractors.
A West Midlands housing scheme required a visual and acoustic bund to screen new homes from nearby industrial activity. The construction of the bund involved geosynthetics and contaminated material.
High Speed 2 (HS2) main works contractor Balfour Beatty Vinci has advertised a contract for D-wall contaminated ground removal.
Grid Link Interconnector, which is developing a 1.4GW high-voltage electricity interconnector between France and the UK, is seeking a contractor to prepare the construction site for a new converter station at Kingsnorth in Kent.
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