Victorian engineering is playing its part in ensuring that Northampton traffic keeps moving, with the opening of a new bridge guaranteed to bolster commuter confidence for another century! Cottingham Road overbridge in Northamptonshire carries traffic and pedestrians across the Midland mainline. However, the Victorian structure, originally built in the late… More
One of Yorkshire’s most famous beauty spots – once known as Trouser Town because of its huge textile industry – is now extending an even bigger welcome to Persons of Reduced Mobility (PRM) thanks to a major Network Rail initiative in which HBPW has played its vital part. Hebden Bridge… More
More rail passengers can now get to London St Pancras at peak travel times using greener trains thanks to a 10.5m platform extension at Corby Rail Station in Northamptonshire. Network Rail is carrying out its biggest upgrade to the Midland Main Line, which runs between London and Sheffield in Yorkshire,… More
It’s something we’ll never get tired of…….100 out of 100 from the guardian of standards in British commerce and engineering, the BSI. And, as if that weren’t enough, it is the sixth year running that HBPW has achieved a perfect score, largely thanks to a collective effort by the team,… More
Parts of the £120m Lincoln Eastern Bypass, which promises to alleviate traffic in the centre of the famous cathedral city, have been placed under the watchful eye of HBPW. The 7.5km road, designed to improve the city’s infrastructure, encourage growth and minimise traffic congestion, is due to finish early next… More
The latest addition to Immingham’s Rail Freight Terminal (IRFT) has required some creative lateral thinking as HBPW engineers seek to turn a building ‘inside out’……all in the cause of health and safety. The incoming volume of combustible ‘biomass’ to the east coast port facility – things like sunflower seeds and… More
HBPW Managing Partner, Paul Withers, did a double take when he travelled to Warwickshire to check out a new project. Buckingham Group were tendering to build a new cable stayed bridge over the A45 at Whitley and had asked Paul to provide engineering drawings as part of their bid. “I… More
HBPW engineers swapped desks for the Dales when they stepped out to tackle Yorkshire’s famous Three Peaks – Pen-y-ghent, Whernside and Ingleborough. Nick Chia, Denis Fedosov, Dimitrios Tsiritakis, Tom Flint and Paul Monaghan put their best feet forward in the recent boiling sun. But, whilst Denis, Nick and Tom were… More
Around 200,000 people in the Sheffield and Barnsley areas now have some of the cleanest drinking water in the UK thanks to a new treatment facility that is using pioneering technology to bring even greater purity to South Yorkshire’s finest tipple! In common with most other reservoirs in the Pennines,… More
Paul Jacklin needed to dust off his hiking boots to complete his latest assignment for Associated British Ports (ABP) in Immingham. HBPW’s inspection and quality standards guru is renowned for his keen eye and was asked by ABP to carry out a principal inspection of the supporting structure to the… More
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