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ENGINEERING YOUR SOLUTIONS HBPW LLP, 43 Bridgegate, Retford, Nottinghamshire, DN22 7UX Tel: 01777 869 896 Fax: 01777 862 491 ISSUE TWENTY FIVE Email: [email protected] www.hbpw.co.uk HBPWNEWS Online Dating Service for Soil! CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Welcome HBPW Plays Its Part In The huge costs of moving soil quantity, provenance and quality to and from construction sites of available earthworks materials. Making soil work harder! something that will need to be has resulted in the growing Not many people are addressed as a priority. Rail ‘Grand Design’ popularity of ‘soil dating’ across aware that this free ‘soil There’s a strange parallel in the UK, something that HBPW dating service’ exists Emyr Parry is now playing a key role in to assist developers Jon Livesey’s editorial about facilitating. in reducing costs the threatened collapse of UK infrastructure. Must we reach Many projects need to import associated with crisis before action is taken? or export materials in order to materials and waste,” contaminated and even Surely a planned approach, achieve required levels or an said Jay. Jay Fox hazardous materials ever over time, has to be a far earthworks balance and, whether The Register of becoming a waste. HBPW better alternative? a site is a potential ‘donor’ or Materials was born can manage the whole ‘receiver’, there is a resource for out of the CL:AIRE Definition of materials assessment process And yet, despite my balancing materials via a Waste: Development Industry as Jay is a registered Qualified observations, life at HBPW project partner. Code of Practice, often simply Person. continues apace with the HBPW Geoenvironmental referred to as ‘the CoP’. Now team working hard to play CL:AIRE offer to connect donors Paul Withers - Managing Partner Associate, Jay Fox, a ‘Qualified in its Second Version ‘the their part in some prestigious, and receivers. As soon as Manchester’s new Victoria Station inside Person’, under the 2011 CL:AIRE CoP’ provides a procedure for challenging and, invariably, development or remediation Code of Practice, which oversees re-using contaminated and/ complex projects. is planned details can be A few weeks ago the lion’s An artist’s view from above the Register of Materials, says the or clean excavated materials confidentially submitted to Register seeks to put materials in construction without the HBPW will leave its mark on share of 600 business leaders CL:AIRE who then identify donors and receivers in touch. requirement for waste related Manchester Victoria Railway interviewed by the Prince’s The new £16m roof that forms any potential synergies with exemptions or permits. Station’s multi million pounds Trust and the HSBC believed part of Manchester Victoria “It contains information such as other registered schemes and Railway Station’s £44m re-vamp, thanks to Emyr that a significant skills crisis will the location, availability, type, This process can be used to avoid members. re-vamp, will also feature a Parry’s work on the new £16m hit the UK within the next special piece of engineering roof, whilst the engineering three years. designed at HBPW’s Retford challenges of Haughton Road On the one hand the UK offices. the wall elevation to the new plastic in in Darlington have been met, UK Infrastructure Challenge government is trying to drive station. The enclosures have some of the most innovative enabling construction work to The station, which is being Tackling the UK infrastructure problem looming. As much as 65- from coal the economy forward with the also been designed to sustain buildings being designed and proceed with speed! transformed into a ‘transport deficit across all sectors will 70% of the North East’s network fired engines likes of its Growth Accelerator terrorist blast loading to British constructed today. It is nice interchange’ as part of Network be one of the great challenges alone could soon be at the end of played their Transport Police requirements to think that we have played By the time you read this the initiative, whilst, on the other, Rail’s plan to create a premier facing civil and structural its natural design life.” part in starting so that passengers would our part in such an amazing blistering summer will probably the people required to support gateway to the city that is safer, engineers over the coming the small fires be protected in the event of project,” added Emyr. Jon said that the rail network was be a distant memory, as will the this appear to be in short brighter and more spacious, years, according to HBPW that burned an attack.” also facing challenges. “Up to Commonwealth Games, the supply across many sectors. will also feature a Grand The £44m project, which will Partner Jon Livesey. excessive the late 1980’s there had been furore surrounding the Tour De It is a trend we are noticing in Designs style roof made from The enclosures will be used also feature an improved shrubbery and Following widespread media 50 to 60 years of chronic under France and, indeed, Germany’s the civil and structural ethylene tetrafluoroethylene, to house the mechanical concourse, including a new trees in many Jon Livesey criticism that too much of the investment to the extent that engineering sector. or ETFE. equipment that is subsequently bridge link to the Manchester cuttings. 7-1 thrashing of Brazil in road budget is spent on ‘patching many structures weren’t even early July! used to ‘inflate’ the state-of- Arena, is scheduled to However, that no longer More than 40% of those ETFE was used at Piccadilly and potholes’ rather than getting a lick of paint! the-art roof. complete early next year. happens with diesel and electric station, the Eden Project in sustained up-front investment, Like the weather, change is questioned said they were “Whilst this trend has now locomotives. Cornwall and the swimming ETFE is lighter, cheaper and Jon maintains that the British never far away! Keep an eye already experiencing skills been reversed the need for pool built for the Beijing lets in more light than glass. road network is only the tip of “Equally neglected culverts on the HBPW blog to see what gaps within their firms, while Client: Network Rail planned maintenance across UK Olympics, known as the It’s also self cleaning, making it the iceberg. get blocked, drainage fails we’ve been up to, at more than half are facing Contractor: Morgan Sindall infrastructure in general remains Water Cube. an ideal material. and, potentially, embankments www.hbpw.co.uk/blog. difficulties filling vacancies. “Road maintenance budgets paramount. However, if the best are compromised, sometimes Getting people with the right HBPW Partner, Emyr Parry, “Many consider it the building have been reduced over the an MP can do is stand up and leading to catastrophic Enjoy the read! skills, especially young people, said: “We have played a minor material of the future because years and thousands of miles of point at a re-surfaced road, it’s collapses. The need for a more has long been an issue for part in the entire project but a this so-called ‘wonder road surfaces with a 10-15 year not going to win them the same substantial inspection and very important one because we polymer’, essentially a lifespan are now coming to the PAUL WITHERS British business and it is brownie points as announcing a maintenance programme across were asked to design a series transparent plastic related to end of their natural lives, which MANAGING PARTNER major capital scheme. When we UK infrastructure generally, of small enclosures that form Teflon, is replacing glass and means there is an even bigger HBPW CONSULTING CONTINUED ON BACK PAGE had steam trains, sparks flying remains,” added Jon. ENGINEERING YOUR SOLUTIONS Engineers Overcome Darlington’s Skyline Testimony To HBPW Double Challenge! Client: Carillion plc Contractor: Darlington Borough Council As work continues on the £17.3m project to create a new south Engineers faced a double entrance at Leeds Railway Station, a key feature of the West challenge when they were Yorkshire skyline is proof that HBPW has been playing its part called upon to design the in ensuring Network Rail’s scheme remains on schedule. sub structure for a new While tower cranes may be a normal feature of many construction footbridge and cycleway next sites, it is a rarity that they are positioned directly next to railway to Darlington College. lines, something NR is always keen to avoid in the interests of safety. Construction work on the 60 However, in order that the multi million pounds project, close to metre span bridge on Haughton Leeds’ landmark ‘Dark Arches’ in the Dark Neville Street area, can Road began this Summer under Work begins at Haughton Road progress, such a structure has had to be erected adjacent to the the watchful eye of Carillion. main lines which run in and out of the city station. However, one of the key to the south of, but immediately The site of the new footbridge Artist’s impression of the new Leeds Railway Station entrance HBPW’s Managing Partner, Paul Withers, said: “The engineering for challenges in designing the adjacent to, an existing bridge. the new entrance has been designed by Mott MacDonald. However, structure was providing sufficient It will provide an important “Currently around 240 cyclists, pedestrian access including we were asked to carry out the Category 3 independent checks on also be pedestrianised and landscaped and NR has submitted an clearance over the tracks of the improvement to the existing as well as pedestrians, use the both cycles and vehicles used Carillion’s design of the foundations to ensure that they were capable application for improvements to arches and area around Dark East Coast Main Railway line pedestrian and cyclist provision existing structure each day but, by the disabled.