Project Reports

Westfield’s Bradford mega-mall brought back to life

The building covers almost the entire construction site

Yorkshire is once again set for a huge new shopping centre as this £260m previously mothballed project takes on the challenges of an unusual design and dozens of key stakeholders.

Birmingham New Street: Mace and Coleman take on epic demolition

Overview of the whole project, with bubble roof completed, showing the tight constraints of the city centre site

The £600m transformation of the station includes one of the most complex demolition operations imaginable – featuring BIM, unique equipment, remote controlled machines, and much more.

Balfour plays Reading festival viaduct just right

Each of the 25 m spans installed consists of four concrete beams

Network Rail’s near-£1bn station upgrade hinges on a de-congesting flyover that has seen its contractor overcome flooded plants and shocking ground conditions.

Floating excavators tackle unusual dredging on Somerset Levels

Excavated material is loaded onto tracked hoppers for use as agricultural improvement fill.

The effectiveness of dredging the Rivers Tone and Parrett in flood-hit Somerset may have been open to debate, but the skill of those involved in the work is not.