Category: Video
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Video | TBM Elizabeth completes HS2’s final Birmingham tunnel
Jules Arlaud, BBV’s tunnelling director, said: “Today is a historic moment for Balfour Beatty Vinci, as TBM Elizabeth completes her three-and-a-half-mile journey in Washwood Heath. This is BBV’s fourth and final TBM breakthrough, delivered by our expert tunnelling team who’ve worked around the clock over 19 months to arrive at this point. View the original article…
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Video | Bristol arena project underway at former Concorde site
Surrounding outer buildings have already been demolished, clearing the way for the next phase of development, including a new accessible bridge connecting the arena complex with the rest of Brabazon, which was recently backed by the government as one of the flagship new towns across the country. View the original article and our Inspiration here
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Video | Inverness Castle gets a green roof
Roofing company Briggs Amasco has installed a new sedum roof covering at the Saltire Bistro in Inverness Castle. The Highland Council said that the living roof, a Bauder Green Roof system, will provide additional habitats for pollinators such as bees and butterflies and will offer natural thermal and acoustic insulation to the bistro. It will…
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Video | HS2’s TBM Anne lifted to the surface in west London
Engineers from HS2’s London tunnels contractor, Skanska Costain Strabag JV, have begun lifting the last of four giant tunnelling machines to the surface. Weighing a total of 1,700 tonnes and stretching for around 150m, tunnel boring machine (TBM) Anne must be lifted out of the shaft in sections using a giant gantry crane. The first…
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Video | Electricity towers dismantled ahead of housing development
Electricity distributor UK Power Networks has dismantled three electricity towers in Mid Sussex to allow for the construction of a new residential development and community infrastructure north of Burgess Hill. Overhead electricity lines and towers by the A2300 were replaced with 1km of underground cables. Another tower is scheduled for removal from the local electricity…
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Video | Murphy installs Greek Street bridge beams in four days
New footage shows Murphy installing the beams for Stockport’s new Greek Street bridge in just four days. Over the last two weeks, the contractor has dismantled and removed 200 beams from the old structure, and lifted and positioned beams for its replacement over five railway lines. Each of the large steel and concrete beams was…
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Video | Murphy installs Greek Street bridge beams in four days
New footage shows Murphy installing the beams for Stockport’s new Greek Street bridge in just four days. Over the last two weeks, the contractor has dismantled and removed 200 beams from the old structure, and lifted and positioned beams for its replacement over five railway lines. Each of the large steel and concrete beams was…
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Video | Drone footage shows HS2 river realignment
New drone footage shows HS2’s completion of the realignment of the River Cole near Coleshill in Warwickshire. The project was carried out to allow for the construction of the Birmingham Spur of the Delta Junction in the high-speed route. The realignment project was designed by HS2’s Mott MacDonald Systra Design joint venture and delivered by…
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Video | Skanska receives huge steel beams for new Penrith railway bridge
Skanska has overseen the delivery of five huge ‘VIBs’ (very important beams) that will be used for major sections of a replacement railway bridge over the M6 next year. The contractor is delivering the £60m project for Network Rail to replace Clifton railway bridge near Penrith after the old bridge reached the end of its life…
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Video | Sequence trial assembly ahead of Stockport bridge construction
(Credit: Network Rail) Drone footage shows the trial assembly of huge concrete components of a £20m bridge and roundabout that Murphy is building for Network Rail in Stockport. The video captures how the components for the bridge have been made and tested over recent months at a huge manufacturing site in Ireland. The bridge components…