Author Archives: Gavin Pearson

Decisions are at the heart of engineering and those decisions need the best possible information. More data about the condition of structures can be helpful, but identifying the right data matters.

The fundamental principles that underpin good bridge design practice may not have changed in thousands of years, but the bridges themselves have. Their uses, structural materials and scale have all expanded and so have the many specialisms involved in delivering them. What has not changed is the end result. Bridges…

AMP8 represents a doubling of capital investment and the start of a process that will deliver the UK’s first new reservoirs in generations. But how can industry scale up to that challenge?

The need to heal the environment and achieve greater sustainability could not be clearer. Ramboll UK managing director Philippa Spence tells us the industry must recognise the complexity involved if it is to achieve the impact it is aiming for.

Persistent issues in the road sector include serious cost challenges for local authorities, design manual limits for engineers and questions about delivery capacity, NCE has heard.

Speaking at NCE’s water conference in London on 20 June, Darch explained that the scale of growing demand must not be under-estimated. “Anglian Water is engaging with a number of different pressures on our demand – East of England is the fastest growing region by population,” he said. “It is…

Innovation in the water sector is vital to meeting future water demand and fostering this while maintaining reliable supply is an ongoing challenge, according to Northumbrian Water head of innovation Angela MacOscar.

The nature of post-Covid recovery for the UK aviation sector will put pressure on capital projects, British Aviation Group (BAG) deputy chair Jane Thompson has warned.

Hull City Council has appointed Esh Construction and Mason Clark Associates to progress design, repair and strengthening of the Drypool Bridge.

Advances in tunnelling techniques and technologies have opened up new applications and opportunities for a greater use of smaller tunnels, often built with automated tunnel boring machines (TBMs). Not that smaller tunnels are always so small. One such tunnel has a diameter of less than 5m but is 36.7km long…