Strategic use of steep land has enabled one of the world’s leading industrial manufacturers to take advantage of a canny piece of value engineering by HBPW professionals. The Durrans Group was established in 1863 and, since then, has continuously supplied the world’s manufacturing industries with carbonaceous materials. Family owned, it… More
The £225m scheme to deliver a state-of-the-art light rail link for Luton Airport is on course for a 2021 opening, heralding another engineering breakthrough for HBPW’s experienced rail team. Regarded as one of the UK’s most important intermodal transport projects this side of the Millennium, work on the Luton Airport… More
One of the UK’s leading ‘banana’ ports is standing tall thanks to a new quayside concrete pavement, now playing its part in keeping operations running at Portsmouth Docks. An old store shed at the facility was demolished, creating an opportunity for the Dock owners, Portico, to re-surface a 1000m2 hard-standing… More
The huge sluice gates responsible for controlling water levels between the River Mersey and its near neighbour, Manchester’s Ship Canal, are seeing their first major facelift for more than a century. The 10 gates that make up Weaver Sluice, located in the canal embankment to the south-west of Runcorn, Cheshire,… More
Tilbury’s new £250m port terminal on the River Thames in Essex has a special ‘carpet’ that has all the hallmarks of an engineering ‘World First’, thanks to innovative thinking by Paul Withers and his mission to create a super strong concrete hard-standing. The ‘nationally significant’ infrastructure project on land once… More
HBPW has left Sheffield a 120-year legacy but hopefully the South Yorkshire city will never need to take advantage of the engineering feat penned by managing partner, Paul Withers. Recently Sheffield received an additional £16 million to bolster its flood defences in the suburbs of Neepsend and Kelham, both part… More
A new £21m Asda that suffered a two-year delay in construction following the demise of civil & structural engineers Clugston Group, has finally opened. The phoenix-like rise took place in the East Midlands town of Worksop last month where a new 37,500 sq ft retail outlet on Sandy Lane is… More
As the UK began its Covid lockdown, one corner of South Yorkshire was alive with activity ensuring that two Network Rail (NR) lines remained fully operational despite the worsening health crisis. In the previous Control Period, HBPW engineers had been working with Amco Giffen to determine whether NR’s Victorian bridge over… More
HBPW engineers with an eye for a story were reading about a severe fire at Retford Specsavers one minute, only to find themselves working as part of the reconstruction team the next. The three-storey Market Place shop, just a few hundred metres from HBPW’s Bridgegate offices, is passed by staff… More
HBPW’s ‘value engineering’ credentials have played their part in saving millions of pounds for a Scottish marine project central to the over-arching £1billion scheme to transform Dundee City Waterfront. The main project, which started in 2001 with a projected finish date of 2031, encompasses 240 hectares of development land stretching… More
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