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Social Value – STEM – creating the next generation of engineers

As a business we have supported a range of school activities and developed a core group of trained STEM Ambassadors. When we were approached to be part of the unique Mabey Hire lead STEM Education Programme we decided to commit to delivering it to one of our own local schools.

Rail Embankment Failures – Four Schemes in One Blockade

At Templecombe in Somerset, a blockade for nine days was programmed for August 2020 to repair a slope failure in a cutting. A rapid decline in passenger numbers due to the covid lockdown provided an opportunity to move the blockade forward to June 2020. Further works were then added when an embankment failed on the…

A500 Etruria Widening – Open three months early

Stoke-on-Trent is growing and the A500 provides a strategic link connecting the city with the M6, local housing and the Etruria Valley Development. To ease congestion and improve safety between Porthill and Wolstanton junctions, a £17.5m scheme was proposed to widen this section of the A500 from two lanes to three in each direction. The…

Sustainable Parking at Uxbridge College

Design/architecture & construction The car park at Uxbridge & Harrow College was designed and installed to provide additional land for college expansion and encourage sustainable travel. Traditional construction can be expensive and highly disruptive to build in a teaching environment, an innovative modular solution, constructing in stand-alone modules enabled customers to benefit from reduced disruption…

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