Tag: road
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Video | Graham installs beams on new Glasgow road
Graham has installed nine 17m-long precast concrete beams at the new Brock Burn road bridge over two days using a 500 tonne-capacity crane. The project is part of the £22.68m Aurs Road project to upgrade the road between Barrhead and Newton Mearns, Glasgow. The road will create a new active travel route along Balgray Reservoir in…
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The Long Road to Change: Understanding Resistance to Innovation
If you read this newsletter, you probably plan or have tried implementing new technologies in your or your customer’s organization, whether successfully or unsuccessfully. I’ve been there, and it’s not easy or fast. Sometimes, it takes three, five, or ten years for the momentum for a positive and rational change to emerge. Persistence and patience…
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Heads of the Valleys road project nearing completion after 23 years
There simply isn’t enough whitewash in Wales to do justice to this, though this article tries hard. The last phase of the dualling of the A465 from Llandarcy to Abergavenny has, like its immediate predecessors – between Dowlais Top and Abergavenny – left knowledgeable spectators open-mouthed at the criminal waste of public monies from project…
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The Road to a 3D Digital World in Australia
In the last six months have been spending a lot of my time down-under, thanks to my lovely partner who decided to improve my air mile elite status by accepting a job in Melbourne. Even though I have been visiting Australia for almost ten years, I must admit I have never been involved much with…
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Are We on the Road to Sustainable Construction?
By consuming resources and creating pollutants and wastes, the construction of buildings and infrastructure has a dramatic effect on the environment. According to a report by the Willmott Dixon Group, around half of all global energy usage can be attributed to the construction industry. Similarly, an estimated 60% of the total usage of raw materials,…