A round up of the best images from December.
Works start to secure low-level nuclear waste vaults in Cumbria
Jacobs Clean Energy is leading the early works at the Low Level Waste Repository in Cumbria – the first phase of a long-term programme to permanently close the existing vaults and adjacent trenches of low-level radioactive waste disposal.
Poultry Market roof time capsule
Old and new coins and newspaper cuttings were inserted under the last copper sheet circle on the dome roof of Smithfield Poultry Market in London, recently restored by roofing contractor Full Metal Jacket.
Remembering Grenfell
Grenfell Tower was fully illuminated in green on the evening of 14 December to mark six and a half years since the fire that killed 72 people.
Seventy years of the JCB backhoe loader
A JCB Mk III backhoe at work in a project with the Houses of Parliament in the background. The photo was taken in 1977, the year the range was introduced.
Maintenance work at London’s Millennium Bridge
A 250m-long debris net was installed on the soffit of the Millennium Bridge to allow FM Conway to carry out planned maintenance work.
An ancient Port of London Thames bylaw called for a bundle of straw to be hung under the bridge during the day and a white light at night to alert vessels.
CM’s editor crowned Construction Journalist of the Year
TV anchor Juliet Mann (right) and Aecom’s chief marketing officer, Harriett Hindmarsh (left), hand CM’s editor Will Mann the Construction/Infrastructure Journalist of the Year award at the International Building Press National Journalism Awards 2023.
