Offshore geotechnical solutions provider Geoquip Marine and the University of Bristol have launched a four-year collaboration, focusing on advanced experimental geotechnics research, skills development and industry-academia collaboration.
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.
The Coal Authority is carrying out ground investigations at the site of a significant subsidence incident on a slip road off the M80 motorway south of Bannockburn in Scotland.
Consultancy, testing, inspection and certification solutions provider Socotec UK has acquired Bedford-based Impulse Geophysics for an undisclosed sum.
The Ossian joint venture has submitted a consent application to the Scottish Government for one of the largest floating wind projects in the world, following extensive consultation and site investigation work.
Transport Scotland intends to award Structural Soils a contract for the first ground investigations that are specific to the long-term solution for the landslide-prone A83 at the Rest and Be Thankful in Argyll and Bute.
Network Rail, Amco Giffen and Northern Piling are working on the foundations for a new footbridge at the relocated Hairmyres station, as part of the £140M Scottish Government-funded East Kilbride Enhancement scheme.
Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering is the preferred bidder for Transport Scotland’s delayed A9 Dualling Tomatin to Moy scheme and will need to manage extensive peat deposits beneath the project footprint.
Construction industry research organisation Ciria recently gave an update on its ongoing research covering guidance for piling and tunnel asset management, as well as projects in the pipeline or in need of further funding.
Northern Ireland’s Department for Infrastructure recently announced the start of ground investigation works on the River Lagan for a proposed new pedestrian and cycle bridge.
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