July Update #3: Carbon calculator, £70m Southbank offices, 150km rail electrification, Clothworkers 26 story hanging garden, UK’s largest wind farm, Chinese rebar, Women in Rail, £550m Oldham redevelopment

July Update #3:  Carbon calculator, £70m Southbank offices, 150km rail electrification, Clothworkers 26 story hanging garden, UK’s largest wind farm, Chinese rebar, Women in Rail, £550m Oldham redevelopment
Network Rail £50m overhead line electrification Network Rail has put contractors on notice for the £50m overhead line renewal between Fenchurch Street and Pitsea. The MK1 contract will renew 150kms of line between Fenchurch Street and Pitsea and is part of a larger project that will renews 219kms of line. Some of the line hasn’t been upgraded since the 1950s and is sagging which is inefficient. The new lines will help trains to run m...

July Update #2: UK energy revolution, Red Arrows redevelopment, £1bn A66 upgrade, Wates school rebuild, Stonehenge euro tunnel JV, HS2 domestic abuse program

July Update #2: UK energy revolution, Red Arrows redevelopment, £1bn A66 upgrade, Wates school rebuild, Stonehenge euro tunnel JV, HS2 domestic abuse program
Offshore wind to revolutionise Britain’s energy National Grid has published a report Pathway to 2030 Holistic Network Design on offshore wind power. The report states that a single coordinated approach to offshore wind production could save £5.5bn by 2030. The report outlines a plan to revolutionise the UK’s energy production. The UK’s target for offshore wind is 50GW and Scotlands is 11GW. The report outlines a plan to produce 23GW. The report a...

July Update #1: 5G in Construction Webinar, Construction Meetup, Cement free piles, Keltbray wins £50m National Highways job, £70m Midlands winners announced, Tarmac electric cement mixer, Zero carbon webinar

July Update #1:  5G in Construction Webinar, Construction Meetup, Cement free piles, Keltbray wins £50m National Highways job, £70m Midlands winners announced, Tarmac electric cement mixer, Zero carbon webinar
5G Enabling Digitisation in Construction Webinar  Friday 15th July @3.30pm BST EMS is presenting at this COMIT Projects webinar that discuss how 5G has the potential to transform Construction Industry and how it can benefit from it, including rapid site set-up, connectivity in remote locations, speed, bandwidth, real-time data for progress and safety monitoring, VR, AR and Mixed Reality solutions (XR), BIM/digital, surveys, potential for autono...

June Update #5: HS2 compound designs, A47 Norwich dualling, HS2 cuts concrete, £1.75bn Aqueduct, Tarmac cuts carbon, Wates retrofit, Women in Engineering

June Update #5: HS2 compound designs, A47 Norwich dualling, HS2 cuts concrete, £1.75bn Aqueduct, Tarmac cuts carbon, Wates retrofit, Women in Engineering
HS2 compound designs released A 30-acre brownfield site near Birmingham Washwood Heath will become home to a control centre, staff building & maintenance centre. The three buildings will have solar panels, use rainwater runoff and use low carbon materials and will be used to service, clean, maintain and store trains for the HS2 network. Around 550 staff are expected to be based at the compound. The winning bidder will be selected next Autumn ...

June Update #4: Tame Valley Viaduct upgrade, £500m Scottish framework, Teesside wind factory, Silverstone homes, Network Rail framework, More warehouses, Inspiring Women pledge

June Update #4:  Tame Valley Viaduct upgrade, £500m Scottish framework, Teesside wind factory, Silverstone homes, Network Rail framework, More warehouses, Inspiring Women pledge
Volker Fitzpatrick gets £59m Tame Valley viaduct Volker Fitzpatrick have been awarded £59m to upgrade the Tame Valley viaduct by Birmingham City Council. The four and a half year project will start this month on the 620m long viaduct ‘Spaghetti junction’ which was built in the 1970s to reinforce the northern end with steel plates to improve safety and refurbish deteriorated parts. The viaduct carries 80,000 vehicles per day. £600m Scotland civil...

June Update #3: More warehouses, green homes, M-shaped tunnels, Smith+Nephew move, Community Fund up for grabs, 30 year rail strategy

June Update #3: More warehouses, green homes, M-shaped tunnels, Smith+Nephew move, Community Fund up for grabs, 30 year rail strategy
Two more 1m sq ft warehouses for the UK Europe’s largest developer Panatonni is planning to build a mega warehouses of more than 1m square feet in Avonmore. A couple of weeks after we heard about ‘Big K’ which was then the largest speculative warehouse ever, the Avonmouth development would surpass that and become the UK’s largest logistics site. The other site in Rugby will be built by developer Tritax Big Box in Symmetry Park with construction set to ...

June Update #1: Ferrovial acquires stake in JFK, £160mn road works, Net Zero scheme, AI in construction, Laing O’Rourke sustainability, New FM Conway Chair, HSE focuses on silicosis

June Update #1:   Ferrovial acquires stake in JFK, £160mn road works, Net Zero scheme, AI in construction, Laing O’Rourke sustainability, New FM Conway Chair, HSE focuses on silicosis
Ferrovial to acquire stake in JFK Ferrovial the Spanish global sustainable infrastructure company will invest around $US1 billion in 96% of Carlyle Group’s 51% share New Terminal One that will design, build and operate Terminal 1 at JFK airport at JFK airport in New York. With total investment amounting to $9.5bn, the new site will replace current Terminals 1, 2 and 3 which will be demolished and have a footprint of 2.5mn square feet. It will then b...

EMS and Graymatics help video become shopkeeper’s best friend

EMS and Graymatics help video become shopkeeper’s best friend
LONDON – June 2022 – Hailed as a game-changing invention, EMS and Graymatics have partnered up to develop a new solution that uses edge computing to provide deep insights from video for predictive analytics in a range of fields from retail to construction. EMS has deep expertise in telecommunications and edge computing and provides connectivity solutions and infrastructure architecture to a range of enterprise and Government projects. Graymatics...

June Update #1: UKIB direct funding, Shotton paper mill, £1.6bn civils framework, Balfour wins Piccadilly line, Elizabeth Line hits 1m, UK’s longest bridge

June Update #1:  UKIB direct funding, Shotton paper mill, £1.6bn civils framework, Balfour wins Piccadilly line, Elizabeth Line hits 1m, UK’s longest bridge
Shotton paper mill £600m revamp  The new plans include new plant buildings, warehouse & dispatch and heat and power boiler building. It is owned by Turkish company Eren Holdings. It first opened in 1983 and is one of the most important paper processing plants in the U.K.   After the work it will produce up to 750k tonnes of cardboard & have capacity to recycle all the paper in wales. It will also produce tissues, a relief to shoppe...

May Update #4: London office surge, UK’s largest warehouse, TfL housing, Underwater drone, Green building fund, Octopus investments, Taylor Wimpey Board.

May Update #4:   London office surge, UK’s largest warehouse, TfL housing, Underwater drone, Green building fund, Octopus investments, Taylor Wimpey Board.
Deloitte London Office Crane Survey Deloitte’s recent London Office Crane Survey measuring the period from October 2021 to March 2022 entitled ‘optimism despite inflation’ predicts a surge in office buildings in London. There is 2.7m sq feet of office space planned for demolition between April & September this year. Completions have fallen by half but 4% more under construction due to delayed starts due to COVID, and completions are expected to ...