Engineers Meet Impossible Snooker Floor Challenge!

30/07/2018

Probably the most expensive warehouse floor on Humberside gave HBPW engineers one of their biggest challenges to date as 3,000 piles were brought in to help the UK’s leading supplier of safety equipment out of a muddy hole! Arco’s existing warehouse, NDC1, adjacent to Hull’s Clive Sullivan Way and not… More

Water Treatment Upgrade For Sheffield

19/07/2018

A pioneering water treatment facility, instrumental to the further upgrade of Sheffield’s drinking water, will feature HBPW’s engineering hallmark when it is finished next year. Langsett Water Treatment Works in South Yorkshire receives its raw water from a nearby reservoir and, traditionally, has cleansed it using the Rapid Gravity Filter… More

Temporary Works Signal Start of £600k Docks Makeover

9/07/2018

A temporary works project led by HBPW has signalled the start of a £600k makeover of historic Blyth Docks in the North East, the place where the world’s first modern-style aircraft carrier, HMS Ark Royal, was built in 1914. As part of the wider site refurb temporary works were required… More

Over-Bridge Trouble Sorters

29/06/2018

  A road over rail bridge which failed stringent assessment tests, has now been given a clean bill of health thanks to specialist analysis and strengthening overseen by engineering experts at HBPW. Non-linear Finite Element Buckling Analysis is a specialism available at HBPW and can make the difference between a… More

It’s A Dog’s Dinner!

21/06/2018

The stereotypical image of the ‘Northerner’ and his greyhound will take a serious battering soon as Sheffield’s Owlerton Greyhound Stadium prepares to build one of South Yorkshire’s finest hospitality facilities, a £5m banqueting suite. And it has extended a ‘Come Dine With Me’ offer to HBPWs engineering team who have… More

£13m College Build Gets HBPW Stamp

11/06/2018

A unique college exclusively dedicated to construction and the built environment is undergoing a massive expansion, and HBPW is firmly at the helm alongside Clugston Construction. Leeds College of Building is nationally recognised as a leader in its field and has now begun work on Phase Two of its Hunslet… More

Bright Spark Flint Is A Law Unto Himself!

31/05/2018

HBPWs newest engineer, Thomas Flint, has got a chance meeting nearly 10 years ago to thank for his latest career progression. Thomas, who joins the company from Atkins, attended a presentation dinner at the Rotary Club of Retford in 2008 when he was just 18, to receive a monetary gift… More

Five Star Rail Rating

21/05/2018

HBPW has maintained a perfect 5* rating in its most recent audit under the Railway Industry Supplier Qualification Scheme (RISQS). RISQS is the supplier pre-qualification service used by buyers of all products and services throughout the British rail industry. And, as part of the scheme, companies like HBPW must undergo… More

Flood Embankment Move Increases Development Site Footprint

10/05/2018

Innovative engineering has given a developer an additional 400 square metres of useable land after a flood embankment was moved five metres, making way for a major industrial warehousing development. The Swift 13 industrial park on Creek Way in Rainham, Essex, comprises 13 industrial / warehouse units varying in size… More

Mammoth Bridge Frees Up Residential Land

30/04/2018

As one of Leeds’ longest established business parks enters its next phase of development, HBPW is poised to deliver a piece of engineering that will be instrumental to the release of large tranches of residential development land. Thorpe Park on the outskirts of the West Yorkshire city is located between… More