Freyssinet won the Quality Award for works on Myton Swing Bridge at the Balfour Beatty UKCS Regional Civils Supply Chain Awards 2023 at end of December. Freyssinet Site Engineer Conor Cusack is pictured accepting the award from Stephen Semple, Balfour…
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The National Highways plans for the £1.7bn road tunnel underneath the Stonehenge World Heritage Site are facing another hurdle in the High Court in December.
Details of the proposed Mersey Tidal Barrage have been released by Liverpool Combined Authority. It would be the largest engineering project in the north west.
A specialist tunnel boring technique was deployed by Northumbrian Water to avoid disrupting the 200-year old Bowes Railway Company Haulier site near Durham.
A bascule bridge is a type of bridge that can be raised to provide clearance for waterway traffic, and is also referred to as a lifting bridge or a drawbridge.
The Plessey Viaduct in Northumberland has been partially closed for urgent repairs on a moved parapet. It carries the east Coast Mainline over the River Blythe.
Under an ancient bylaw, a straw bundle must be dangled from London’s Thames crossings to warn river traffic work is being carried out and headroom is reduced.
Freyssinet received two awards at the ICE West Midlands Awards in September – winning the Small Project Award, and highly commended in the Innovation category for the HS2 Marston Box Slide. Project Director Kevin Bennett and Project Manager Maria Teresa Sanchez Sanchez collected the…
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Freyssinet was awarded Project of the Year 2023 up to £3 million by CECA Midlands for its works on the HS2 Marston Box Slide. Over Christmas 2022, the 85m long, 12,600t box structure was moved 165m into position to facilitate the…
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Network Rail is embarking on a refurbishment of Sankey Viaduct in Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, which opened in 1830 and is the world’s oldest railway viaduct.