Construction consultancies which pared staffing levels to the bone at the height of the recession, are now finding themselves at capacity as the economic climate starts to improve, according to HBPW’s Geoenvironmental Engineer, Jay Fox. The result is that demand for professional staff is now on the increase as large… More
The UK’s leading provider of road fuel has HBPW and the Murphy Group to thank for its expansion in North Lincolnshire. Last year Greenergy, which owns and operates a biodiesel production processing plant on Associated British Ports (ABP) land at Immingham, supplied 13.5 billion litres of petrol, diesel and biofuel… More
The systematic re-gauging of railway lines across Britain has been presenting HBPW with a series of platform challenges in the North West. The Buckingham Group asked HBPW to design temporary platforms at Swinton and Walkden railway stations in Greater Manchester, as part of Network Rail’s on going programme of vertically… More
HBPW has landed one of its largest ever contracts – to undertake the civil engineering design of Associated British Ports’ (ABP) Immingham Renewable Fuels Terminal (IRFT). The aim of the multi-million pound development is to create a storage facility for wood pellets, imported from around the world, ahead of their… More
A farm which was surrounded by opencast mining has been given the green light as a residential development site following various assessments, including a Phase II ground investigation, by HBPW’s Geoenvironmental Engineer, Jay Fox. Royds Green Farm near Rothwell in Leeds, had been earmarked for approximately three to four properties.… More
The perils of navigating huge container ships in stormy British weather has been keeping HBPW busy with a steady stream of specialist repair work at two of the UK’s busiest ports. When the Port of Immingham was built in 1912 engineers never anticipated that ships as big as modern day… More
When draughtsman, Kirolos Kamal, engages in office banter the joke goes that he has to put one of his three ‘language’ brains into gear – Arabic, formal English or informal English! Kirolos, who’s been in the UK since March 2011, worked on some of the largest hotel projects in Egypt… More
An innovative value engineering solution at Llandudno Railway Station could not have happened but for Victorian engineers. The station has been re-developed as part of a £5.1m restoration and improvement scheme that will, according to Network Rail, “improve passenger facilities and make rail travel a more attractive option for people… More
The huge costs of moving soil to and from construction sites has resulted in the growing popularity of ‘soil dating’ across the UK, something that HBPW is now playing a key role in supporting and facilitating. Many projects need to import or export materials in order to achieve required levels… More
HBPW’s expertise in geotechnical engineering has been playing a major part in a £27m road scheme, which will see the construction of two huge arches across the Red River Valley in Cornwall. The Camborne to Pool to Redruth project, which has already been under development for more than eight years,… More
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