Inefficiencies and environmental issues within public construction projects has become political and economic issue in the UK and abroad. The UK government has set out regulations to help tackle... Read more...
CIRRUSmaps™ is an extremely flexible platform that is domain agnostic, example implementations range from fire safety management through to marine planning. It is the platform used to deliver an... Read more...
During the installation of blue edge lighting in grass areas, the current Heathrow specification requests for each light fitting to be secured in the ground (Grass Areas) using a buried concrete... Read more...
Sections of the Town Beck culvert in Ulverston were in poor condition and needed to be repaired. In 3 locations this meant significant excavation work to replace the top slab of the culvert which lay... Read more...
A survey of the 81m stretch of quay wall at Bryant’s Wharf on the River Yare identified that ‘accelerated low water corrosion’ (ALWC), which only occurs at the low water line, was the... Read more...
A flood defence embankment at South Ferriby is at risk from erosion. This erosion is thought to be as a result of the movement of the deep water channel in the Humber closer towards the flood... Read more...
After runway resurfacing in 2014 early age indentations were found in the new surface. Known performance issues with Marshall Asphalt include reflective cracking, rutting under heavy traffic and... Read more...
Plant People Interaction is still a leading cause of workplace incidents and accidents. Morgan Sindall is always striving to improve our Method Statements, and in this case remove unnecessary Plant... Read more...
A massive electrification of the rail network is underway in the United Kingdom. Some 500 masonry-arch bridges are too low to allow installation of the catenaries. The conventional solutions for increasing the available height are lowering the track or replacing the structure by a prefabricated concrete bridge. Both of the solutions are costly and time-consuming, while the second requires destruction of a structure that may have high heritage value. Read more...
Worksites carried out on roads in service expose the workers to risk of fatal accidents due to the potential collision with vehicles. The works area entry and exit points are particularly exposed to accidents – they are often indicated solely by a simple line of traffic cones. This purely symbolic barrier does not prevent vehicles from straying into the works area. Read more...