The development of cutting-edge technologies that will shape how concrete and re-cycled plastic are used in both the construction and rail sectors, are to get high-level input from HBPW. Civil Water Management, which recently took first place in a major Euro rail award, has invited Senior Partner, Paul Withers, to… More
HBPW’s popular quarterly newsletter – in print for more than 12 years – will now arrive via email rather than through the front door! So, whilst it may be goodbye to the printing presses – and the postie – it’s hello to a new ‘ezine’ and a marketing channel that… More
Some sophisticated engineering techniques – and a good dose of TLC – have ensured the future of an East Yorkshire rail bridge that is once again ‘open for business’. Cottingham Station footbridge is located on the Hull Bridlington Seamer line and came back into use this month, following a major… More
HBPW’s Senior Partner, Paul Withers, is to step back from day-to-day management of major civil engineering projects and take up an internal consulting role. Paul, who originally set up the civil engineering practice with Chris Clarke in 2000, has worked on some of the UK’s most important engineering infrastructure projects,… More
Engineer Paul Jacklin is a man with a head for heights, at least he had to be for his latest assignment at one of North Lincolnshire’s leading quarries. Melton Ross Quarry near Kirmington is operated by the UK’s main independent supplier of lime, Singleton Birch Ltd. As well as including… More
A multi-million pounds project to extend the quayside at one of Scotland’s most important ‘renewables’ ports, features the HBPW hallmark. Nigg Energy Park, known historically as Port of Nigg and located in Ross on the north shore of the entrance to the Cromarty Firth, has over 900 metres of deep-water… More
A rather unusual ‘heavyweight lifter’ was called in to complete an important aspect of a marine project that will eventually see the £1billion transformation of Dundee City Waterfront. But the ‘lifter’ in question was no Olympic challenger but a crane charged with the unusual task of moving and driving huge… More
As the world was wishing itself Happy Christmas recently, HBPW engineers might have been forgiven for getting butterflies as the rail division prepared for one of its biggest collective challenges to date. Partners Paul Monaghan, Jon Livesey and Design Engineer, Ross Hardy, were put on standby in the run up to… More
Engineer Paul Jacklin got an unexpected ‘999’ call from Associated British Ports after a cargo ship collided with the locks and pumphouse at Immingham Docks in North Lincolnshire. Magnolia Seaways, which is owned and operated by the Danish international shipping and logistics company, DFDS, was, according to the Grimsby Telegraph, ‘struggling… More
Ships berthing at Associated British Ports’ Quay 12 in Hull are now assured of a smoother experience thanks to a two-handed exercise in innovation. HBPW and A.Torn Construction were called in by ABP after it became apparent that Quay 12’s fenders were in need of replacement. HBPW’s Managing Partner, Paul… More
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