JOB OPPORTUNITY Job title: Contract Manager Department: Operations Place of work: Telford head office – with requirement to travel to projects nationwide Package: Salary, car/allowance, company pension, life assurance, PHI, healthcare, company share scheme, annual discretionary bonus. Freyssinet has been at the…
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Rail passengers wondering what the stations they will be using when the HS2 link is finished will look like do not need to wait until they are open to find out. This is because designs of Birmingham and Solihull stations…
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Freyssinet and Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) won the Outstanding Engineering Achievement Award at the 2018 Global Light Rail Awards for modernistation works carried out on Glasgow Subway. The annual awards, which this year took place on 3 October in…
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Freyssinet has successfully achieved Constructionline’s Gold (level 3) accreditation. Freyssinet has been a member of Constructionline, the UK’s leading procurement and supply chain management platform since 2009. The Gold level accreditation was introduced in September 2017, and goes beyond the…
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Network Rail has announced that it will raise the height of two railway bridges in Pembrokeshire, because they are frequently hit by lorries. The BBC reported that the organisation will spend £4.25 million to construct new bridges at Haverfordwest and…
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A cycle and pedestrian bridge in Peterborough, which had been earmarked for demolition by the local council, will instead be repaired giving it a further ten years of use. Bike Biz reported on the campaign by locals, who felt that…
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Freyssinet is to host its annual seminar on engineering innovation and structural strengthening at Thinktank Science Museum in Birmingham on Thursday 18 October. Following successful events in London, York and Glasgow in recent years, the Birmingham event will celebrate the…
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Network Rail has invested heavily into its railway lines in northern England in an attempt to transform train access in this region of the country. It is ploughing £725,000 into the Great North Rail Project to improve the connection between…
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Retaining Wall Repair, Medway Police Station, Kent Client: Vinci Construction UK Facilities Works Commenced: July 2018 Works Completed: August 2018 Download the case study PDF here. Freyssinet was instructed to carry out the repair of a retaining wall at Medway…
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Portsmouth International Ferry, Port Berth 4, Jacking and Bearing Replacement Client: Portsmouth International Port Principal Contractor: Freyssinet Limited Designer: Freyssinet Limited Works Commenced: October 2017 Works Completed: November 2017 Download the case study PDF here. Portsmouth International Port is one…
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