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Submarine landslides could pose tsunami risk for Indonesia
A team of scientists led by Scotland’s Heriot-Watt University has identified a potential new tsunami risk in Indonesia. The researchers used seismic data to map below the seabed of the Makassar Strait, a narrow seaway between the islands of Borneo and Sulawesi, and found evidence of 19 ancient submarine landslides.…
Sheet Piling brought in for emergency reservoir repairs
Sheet Piling (UK) is undertaking emergency remedial work at the Staines Reservoir in Surrey. It is supplying a sheet pile wall solution on behalf of the Costain, Atkins and Black & Veatch (CABV) JV and its client Thames Water. The joint venture forms part of Thames Water’s eight2O water sector…
Bachy wins foundations contract for major Lancashire road scheme
Engineering group Costain has awarded Bachy Soletanche a £5.6M contract to deliver geotechnical works on the Preston Western Distributor. The £200M road scheme will connect the A583 and the M55, thus linking Preston and southern Fylde to the M55 motorway. It will also include a new motorway junction, four new…
Offshore wind survey wraps up in Irish waters
Swiss offshore contractor Geoquip Marine has completed a geotechnical survey campaign for the Oriel Windfarm project off the coast of Dundalk in the Irish Sea. The month-long project, which Geoquip worked on through March, complements a geophysical survey campaign finished during August 2019 by Irish company Alpha Marine. The data…
McConnell drives on with New Zealand wastewater pipe
In April of last year, New Zealand water utility Watercare Services awarded McConnell Dowell a contract for the design and construction of the Snells Algies pipeline. It will form an upgrade of the marine outfall along a section of Mahurangi East Road in Auckland. With its ‘Piper’ tunnel boring machine…
The Great Geobakeoff is back
The Geological Society of London has launched this year's Great Geobakeoff. “What better challenge to occupy a nation in lockdown than the Great Geobakeoff 2020?” the Geological Society of London’s education assistant Rose Want asked in a recent blog post. Indeed, once people tire of the ubiquitous banana bread, they might…
Fugro finishes Aswan Dam bridge soil investigation
Fugro has completed a geotechnical site investigation to provide geodata for the design and construction of a new traffic bridge over the Aswan Dam on the River Nile in Egypt. Cairo-headquartered Arab Contractors awarded the work to the Dutch geodata specialist. The value of the contract, however, was not disclosed.…
RVO to issue geotech services tender for wind farm project
Next month, the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) is planning to issue an invitation to tender for services required during the geotechnical investigations at the IJmuiden Ver wind farm zone in the North Sea. The Official Journal of the European Union detailed that the tender would be for four client offshore…
Deme halfway through Borssele wind farm foundation installation
Since starting work in mid-January 2020, Deme Offshore has installed half of the foundations for the 752MW Borssele 1 and 2 offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea, 22km off the coast of the Zeeland province of the Netherlands. Denmark-based power company Ørsted awarded the contract to Deme Offshore,…