Engineering design which will meet challenges posed by poor ground conditions close to a small town West of Brighton, will be key to opening up a new 600-house development. The A27 at Lancet, a coastal village just 10 miles from Brighton in West Sussex, falls under the jurisdiction of Highways… More
HBPW drone pilot, William Withers, has been getting a bird’s eye view of two of Britain’s leading historical buildings including a Martello Tower, one of a series of such structures built to deter the military ambitions of Napoleon. English Heritage and Forth Ports in Edinburgh have been taking advantage of… More
An innovative concrete floor laid as part of the development of Manchester’s £1bn mixed use ‘community’, Mayfield, is giving skaters some unexpected Christmas cheer thanks to the installation of a temporary ice rink over the new surface. Senior Partner, Paul Withers, along with supply chain partner, Nationwide Engineering, has developed… More
Six years after joining HBPW, graduate engineer Tadziwa ‘Tadz’ Stevens, has achieved Chartered Engineer status. Tadz, who joined the company in 2015, went to Bath University, graduating with an MEng in Civil & Structural Engineering. He said: “Becoming a Chartered Engineer is no mean feat and requires a lot of… More
Brave HBPW employee Ben Daly, who has been diagnosed with terminal bile duct cancer, has put his illness to one side and pedalled his way up some of the UK’s steepest roads to raise a staggering £12,000 for the hospital treating him. Ben,28, who joined HBPW in July 2014, has… More
A memorial to Britain’s fallen heroes will come into existence later this month as HBPW’s Senior Partner, Paul Withers, and his Rotary colleagues, complete part of a long charity journey that began more than a year ago. Thirteen eight foot high beech trees, or saplings, are to be planted at… More
Suffolk’s much heralded £145m ‘Gullwing Bridge’ – also known as the Lake Lothing Third Crossing – may well prove to be one of the region’s most iconic landmarks when it opens in 2023, but without ‘temporary works’ it would never happen! That’s the view of HBPW’s Senior Partner, Paul Withers,… More
Cumbernauld on the outskirts of Glasgow may be famous as the principal home for Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs service (HMRC), but HBPW has been called in to carry out a key project just down the road from the country’s tax centre. Business logistics company GIST, design, manage and operate… More
An iconic new bridge in the Suffolk town of Lowestoft – the Lake Lothing Third Crossing – will not only open a host of economic opportunities in the region, but, as HBPW engineers discovered, the project also came with its very own ‘gently, gently’ warning! Senior Partner, Paul Withers, said:… More
HBPW’s in-house standards man, Paul Jacklin, was a little blurry-eyed after his latest online ‘meeting’: two days solid with an inspector from the BSI, the guardian of standards in British commerce and engineering. But the Covid-style inspection proved just the ticket and, after the thick end of 16 hours of computer… More
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