Opening tension cracks, crumbling cliff edges, coastal landslips often influenced by the increasingly common effects of climate change of heavy rainfall and high tides/tidal surges are regular events for our island nation. Throw a little […]
Congratulations to Steve Forster, the team at CL:AIRE, the project funders and everyone else involved for producing our own industry guidance on how to apply the Control of Abestos Regulations 2012 to asbestos contaminated soils […]
If so, you can hear from a range of professionals currently working in this part of the construction industry in the short video below, put together by the Federation of Piling Specialists.
Prior to the publication of a “Standard” whether an ISO, EN or BS these are available to review at https://drafts.bsigroup.com/ This month there are a number of key geotechnical standards available for review including: ENISO […]
Yesterday saw the Secretary of State for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) confirm that despite the Lead Ammunition Group’s report “Lead Ammunition, Wildlife and Human Health” recommending a ban on the use […]
Yesterday saw the Environment Agency produce their annual report, the 25th such report, on the state of groundwater levels in the Chalk Aquifer beneath London. Intially reports were started in the 1990s to record changing […]
Early in my career I was on-site and there was much discussion about the risk of vibrations from drilling operations disturbing sediment in water supply pipes. The site manager I was with was still scarred […]
If you are, did you know that according to the NHS Radon is responsible for approximately 3% of all lung cancer deaths and that since 2008 the Health Protection Agency (HPA)* advised that This year […]
Increasingly we are seeing our National Rail Network under pressure from extreme weather events, and many of us, as recently as last month, were affected by delays and cancellations as result of flooding of lines […]
A fairy tale with a happy ending……only time will tell and at the moment the Environmental Audit Committee Chair, Mary Creagh MP believes more action is required to protect UK soil health. Watch what she […]