CIRIA updates thrust restraints guidance

 CIRIA’s latest publication,  Buried pressure pipelines: designing for thrust restraint (C816) replaces its 1994 Guide to the design of thrust blocks for buried pressure pipelines (R128), reflecting 30 years of research, innovation and industry experience. The new...

Gleeson Homes bins chief exec in reorganisation

Mark KnightMark Knight has stepped down from his role of chief executive of Gleeson Homes and left the business as part of a cost-saving restructuring. His post has been made redundant with a chief operating officer role being created instead.Knight had joined Gleason...

Plans submitted for Ealing estate revamp

CGI of the plan for the Mount Close EstateDolphin Living acquired the Mount Close Estate in 2016 from the mayor of London’s Office for Policing & Crime (MOPAC). Since then, Dolphin Living has invested in a programme of planned maintenance and refurbishment,...

Farrans team starts £42m Golticlay wind farm

Nordex turbines are to be used at Golitclay [Image: RWE]Power generator RWE is developing the 62.7 MW Golticlay onshore wind farm, near Lybster in Caithness.Golticlay wind farm will have 11 wind turbines, each standing 180 metres high to the blade tip and each of 5.7...