Marine Civils

Fugro claims that its leading expertise in over-water geotechnical characterisation has saved time, cost and congestion during riverbed assessment for London’s major sewer upgrade, the Thames Tideway Tunnel.

The Arkona offshore wind farm offshore Germany has received the German Renewables Innovation Product of the Year Award for a newly developed method to protect the steel foundations of offshore wind turbines…

The sheer scale of the 25km Thames Tideway has sparked a new class of barge, the ‘Tideway’, designed by Bennett’s Barges in conjunction with Holland’s Baars BV.

UK Pump hire specialist, Sykes Pumps, has added the GP80 eco to its eco range of diesel pumps, providing an ideal solution for smaller marine civil engineering sites.

The Dutch Rijkswaterstaat responsible for infrastructure in the Netherlands has awarded a major contract for the Afsluitdijk project to the Levvel consortium. The main partners in this consortium are Van Oord Aberdeen…

A new NERC-funded research project aims to take a low-cost instrument previously used to measure waves in the open ocean, and convert it into a system – WireWall - that can more…

A new floating lifeboat station has been installed at Poole, UK that has been designed to improve the efficiency of the lifeboats at this busy station.

A joint venture company known as VBA, has begun work on a £17.5 million contract that will enhance the coastal protection along a section of the coastline at Fylde in Lancashire, UK,…

Long overdue dredging has taken place in the approaches to the German Baltic port of Ueckermünde-Berndshof close to the border with Poland to enable the small facility to maintain its commercial handling…

Norway’s Yara group is the latest big foreign concern to invest in Brunsbüttel, ploughing €28 million into a new production plant in the expanding German Elbe port, writes Tom Todd.