Watch as WSP head of civil, bridge and ground engineering Steve Denton and NCE editor Claire Smith reflect on everything they learnt from the NCE Bridge Design and Management 2023 conference and look to what the future has instore for bridges.
WSP will lead a host of high-level contractors in providing technical advice for the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero’s (DESNZ) Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) programme.
The global professional services firm will continue its advisory work on the delivery of the CCUS programme, leading Acrometis, Arup, Crondall Energy,…
Transport Infrastructure Ireland has appointed a multidisciplinary client partner team featuring Turner & Townsend, WSP and Mace for the €9.5bn (£8.1bn) Dublin MetroLink programme – Ireland’s first metro railway.
Turner & Townsend will lead the client partner team, which also features O’Connor Sutton Cronin and PwC. The Dublin MetroLink will be…
The Department for Transport (DfT) has announced its roster of 37 contractors appointed to its £600M STARThree framework to advise on the delivery of rail, road and aviation projects.
STARThree is is officially known as the Specialist Technical and Commercial Advisory for Rail and Other Transport Systems Framework and this is…
Construction of a new London Undeground ticket hall in south London called for some complex ground engineering to protect the running tunnels.
Over the past decade, the Elephant & Castle district in south London has been transformed with the construction of several new high rise residential buildings. With many more flats…
Surface water management will improve with sustainable drainage systems becoming mandatory for new developments, but what regulatory structure is needed to make it work?
The frequency and severity of extreme flooding in the UK has increased in recent years as a result of climate change, but until recently there has been…
Cumbria in the north of England has a history of flooding. In 2015, 2,276 properties and businesses flooded in the town of Kendal and surrounding villages during Storm Desmond. To create future resilience, the Environment Agency and Westmorland & Furness Council are working with WSP and others to deliver one…
A consortium including WSP and Mott MacDonald has been appointed by the Welsh Government to provide environmental assessments for a number of renewable energy projects on public land.
The Renewable Energy Developer (RED) programme has contracted WSP, Mott MacDonald, LUC, Temple, Dulas, JCTR and Axis to help with the development of…
This video is from NCE's Flood Resilience Forum 2023 held on 19 April 2023. WSP associate flood risk engineers Tom Fitzpatrick and Matt Wiltshire discuss how public engagement helped shape the preferred option for the Kendal Flood Risk Management Scheme. The project will hope to will improve flood risk to…
The cost to free a micro tunnel boring machine (TBM) that became trapped last year while constructing a storm sewer in Toronto, Canada, has risen to C$25M (£14.6M) due to ground stabilisation challenges.
As first reported by NCE sister title Ground Engineering, the rescue mission has become increasingly expensive since February…
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