Geotechnical drilling consumables supplier Terraroc, in collaboration with Socotec UK and Cambridge Insitu, has released the S Geobor wireline high pressure dilatometer (HPD) system.
National Highways’ new flight management system is designed to make it easier to plan the use of drones for monitoring and surveying near its assets across the country.
Bentley subsurface company Seequent has released the Leapfrog Energy software suite, expanding the company’s 3D modelling offering to the full energy industry.
Engineering consultancy Mott MacDonald has partnered with flood risk intelligence firm Fathom to support the delivery of improved flood risk and resilience assessments for infrastructure schemes.
Piling contractor Cementation Skanska has trialled the plug-in Bauer eBG 33 rotary drilling rig – that comes with a powerful electric drive instead of a diesel engine - on High Speed 2’s (HS2’s) Birmingham and London sites.
Environmental data company Groundsure has launched a new data tool designed to highlight contamination, past land use and mining risk hotspots across brownfield sites.
The Hochtief Murphy Joint Venture has carried out the world’s largest continuous pour of cement-free Earth Friendly Concrete in a tunnel drive shaft on National Grid’s £1bn London Power Tunnels phase 2.
The High Speed 2 (HS2) project has completed a world first with the installation of four 30m deep piles on a London site using a hydrogen dual-fuel piling rig.
Geothermal technology company GA Drilling has successfully tested a new tool that could cut the cost of deep geothermal drilling by doubling drilling speeds and extending the drill bit lifetime.
Bentley subsurface software company Seequent has launched the Slope 3D tool, designed to support geotechnical engineers and engineering geologists in creating safer slopes.
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