Author Archives: Thames Menteth

Work has started on the installation of 2,000 piles for the foundations of High Speed 2’s (HS2’s) Birmingham Curzon Street station.

Trial holes are being carried out to inform the best route for complex utility diversions that have delayed Network Rail’s £161M project to revamp Oxford’s railway station.

A section of the A470 in Powys, Wales, will close for seven weeks to enable repairs to a retaining wall that partially collapsed a year ago.

The first sites along the 25km Tideway tunnel that runs from east to west London have been switched on, marking a significant milestone on the "super sewer" project.

The British Geotechnical Association (BGA) has awarded the 55th Cooling Prize to University of Dundee PhD student Thomas Riccio, who gave a presentation on “Pile installation effects and plugging in soft rock”.

Cern’s plans for a new underground particle accelerator that is set to replace the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have moved forward with ground investigations starting this month.

Work to drill the last borehole has begun as part of ground investigations along a landslide-hit road on the Isle of Wight.

During the construction of a debris shelter at Rest and Be Thankful, motorists may have to use a local diversion route for “years rather than months”, a council leader has revealed.

A new report published by the UK’s Government Office (GO) for Science has found that data and policy tools needed to manage the subsurface still “lag behind” those used for the surface.

Submissions for abstracts for the 21st International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ICSMGE) to take place in Vienna in 2026 are now open.