Months of traffic chaos in Derby will begin to tail away over the coming months as a new bow string arch bridge designed by HBPW begins to alleviate congestion in the East Midlands city. The London Road over bridge on the south east side of the city centre carries the… More
TV celeb, Adrian Edmondson (the manic punk rocker in The Young Ones!) is in the dog house after becoming the latest presenter to inadvertently call one of Britain’s famous engineers an architect! Just as Sellotape has become a way of describing transparent adhesive tape, so ‘architect’ seems to have become… More
One of history’s engineering giants will be watching over HBPW’s latest project from the quiet of his final resting place in St Matthew’s Churchyard Holbeck in Leeds. The firm is designing the structures and foundations for three industrial units on Springwell Road, which is only a short distance from Matthew… More
A 1000 tonne crane was called in to complete the finishing touches for one of HBPW’s latest bridge designs. Work on the £850,000 St Botolph’s bowstring footbridge across the River Witham at Boston in Lincolnshire, began many months ago, coming to fruition when a massive crane lifted the bridge into… More
Work on the foundations of Chip Lane footbridge in Taunton – designed by HBPW as part of the new multi million pounds Northern Inner Distributor Road – have now begun with railway possessions earmarked for next month. The firm was tasked with designing the new structure, as well as a… More
HBPW’s newest Partner, Jon Livesey, is a man who likes to go the extra mile for his clients and, as someone who has walked the 1247 miles from Lands End to John O’Groats, you might say he’s had more practise than most! Jon, who joined the firm earlier this month,… More
The Government’s commitment to cut red tape has resulted in the scrapping of Site Waste Management Plans (SWMPs), although many companies and public sector regulators don’t even know the changes have taken place, says HBPW’s Jay Fox. Jay, the firm’s Geoenvironmental Engineer, said: “If the value of a construction project… More
HBPW is playing its part in the massive £500m scheme to electrify the Midland Main line between Bedford and Sheffield by 2020. Network Rail’s half a billion pounds investment, which will not only enable electric trains to run between London St Pancras and South Yorkshire, will also provide for more… More
The legacy of Victorian England’s rail engineers, coupled with torrential downpours, has most probably been the primary cause of failed embankments and landslips on Britain’s rail network. That is the view of HBPW’s Managing Partner, Paul Withers, as a single track line between Eastleigh and Fareham in Hampshire experienced three… More
If the UK climate continues to get wetter, design engineers will need to ensure they allow for rising groundwater and the looming threat of retaining wall and earthworks slope failure. That’s the stark warning from HBPW’s geoenvironmental engineer, Jay Fox, following record rain falls that left Britain wallowing in flood… More
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