HBPW in Rail Emergency Response Team

7/09/2017

Now that the Department of Transport’s Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) has issued its report into a major East Midlands bridge collapse, HBPW can reveal itself as part of the Emergency Response engineering team called in to help restore rail services in Leicestershire. Just before midnight on 1st August last… More

007 Secrecy For Partners

28/08/2017

HBPW is fast becoming the engineering company with some of the best kept secrets in Britain! Managing Partner, Paul Withers’ latest assignment involved a collection of classic sports cars worth millions of pounds. “David Randall at Turnstyle Construction installed the equivalent of an insulated white wall into a rather large… More

Partner Appointments

17/08/2017

Dr Tommy Ng and Martin Todd have joined HBPW’s Management team as Partners. The company has expanded rapidly in recent years with a succession of new client wins, prompting the need for not only additional engineering and admin staff, but a broader management team to co-ordinate and implement strategy. A… More

Time for (Costa) Coffee?

7/08/2017

One of the leading commercial property development companies in the UK has been working alongside HBPW to create additional retail space for two of the country’s top high street brands. Costa Coffee and Maplin, the computer and gadget specialist, are set to take space on the Goodmayes Retail Park on… More

IRFT Nets HBPW Another Award Nomination

27/07/2017

HBPW is in the spotlight again after being shortlisted for one of the British Construction Industry Awards’ prestigious gongs. The Immingham Renewable Fuels Terminal scheme has been included in the Major Civil Engineering Project of the Year Category for Projects over £50m. Managing Partner, Paul Withers, said: “HBPW is justifiably… More

New Appointments Expand Language Base!

17/07/2017

The international flavour of HBPW continues apace with the appointment of two more engineering professionals. The company, which already boasts a raft of languages within its workforce from Russian to Greek, Egyptian to Welsh, now adds Urdu and Turkish to its ever-growing list of foreign tongues! Will Withers – fluent… More

HBPW Makes NCE Gold Standard!

10/07/2017

HBPW has joined the ranks of Britain’s elite engineering companies after being ranked 97th in the New Civil Engineer’s prestigious Top 100 Companies list. The NCE100 Companies of the Year Awards celebrate firms said to be the best in their field and it is the second time HBPW has achieved… More

Spark of Genius for Scotland

30/06/2017

A huge £500m project that will connect the electricity grid on either side of the Moray Firth in northern Scotland, will also bear the indelible mark of HBPW’s engineering team. In 2014 Zurich based ABB corporation was awarded the contract by Scottish Hydro Electric Transmission plc (SHE Transmission), part of… More

Keeping UK Freight On The Move

23/06/2017

HBPW is playing a key part in keeping freight moving at one of the world’s busiest container ports. DP World London Gateway is a state-of-the-art, highly automated deep-sea container port on the same site as one of Europe’s biggest logistics parks and close to the UK’s largest consumer market. HBPW… More

HBPW Makes Top 100 Again!

12/06/2017

HBPW has, for the second year running, been confirmed as one of New Civil Engineer magazine’s Top 100 Companies. The NCE100 Companies of the Year Awards celebrate firms said to be the best in their field. HBPW was ranked number 72 at last year’s inaugural ceremony. However, the 2017 rankings… More