Why are management roles promoted within the engineering industry rather than analytical roles? Becoming chartered as an engineer to any of the governing engineering councils is no mean trick. Anyone who has done so has earned it, through hard graft and diligence. But the route is fairly clearly defined. Take…

Commending the technical excellence of Chinese researchers Off the back of reading two fantastic papers in this month’s Geotechnique regarding deep cement-mixed clay (1) and defective jet-grouted cut-off walls (2) both of which were prepared with either lead or secondary authors from Wuhan University, we were discussing the anecdotal increase…

Two new publications show that the temporary works sector is current, relevant and continuing to innovate OK this blog post is a little bit premature as we haven’t had the time to review the subject documents in detail. We’re referring to two new high-level temporary works publications, one by CIRIA…

Welcoming the government’s new playbook The German economy is rightly lauded for its power and sustained levels of stable growth. The manufacturing sector in particular employs over 15% of the workforce. …

We undertook some data collection recently — the charts below are hopefully self-explanatory A couple of points for context: These are fine-grained fills modified with either lime or lime/cement combinations In sum there’s roughly 750 measurements in the dataset Approximately 1,200 houses have been, or are currently being built, on these fills

(31/12/2018) In these divided times, unity in Katowice “Our common efforts didn’t consist solely of producing texts or defending national interests. …

(16/08/2018) Tragic Italian bridge collapse points to broader problems in infrastructure asset management. Italy’s motorway operator, Atlantia, were delayed to the market opening this morning eventually opening over 21% down on yesterday’s share price. Later in the day trading was suspended on the stock. …