A round-up of the most impressive construction pictures from the past month.
Tideway connected
After 10 years of construction, the last of 21 connections has been made between the original Victorian sewers and the new 25km Thames Tideway Tunnel, bringing the entire system into operation, protecting the tidal Thames from sewage pollution.
Canal cranage
Contractor Griffiths has replaced two footbridges at the Droitwich Barge and Droitwich Junction canals in the Mid-Worcestershire Ring, each weighing 7 tonnes. Waterways specialist Rothen Group provided an 8 metre crane pontoon to create a stable working platform.
International Women’s Day
Assistant quantity surveyor at BAM Yasmin Struthers-Frost joined the contractor as an apprentice in 2018 and has seen her career go from strength to strength. Last year, she was shortlisted in the Rising Star category of the CIOB Awards.
Emergency area retrofit
As part of National Highways’ National Emergency Area Retrofit programme, WJ Group has helped install 22 new emergency areas between junctions 21a and 26 of the M6 using its coloured surfacing product, RapidGrip.
Roxanne joins Skanska
This kitty was spotted at a Skanska construction site in the US and rescued by project manager Sam Villalobos. Roxanne is now a treasured member of the project team. Female ginger cats are rare, making up only 20% of the ginger feline population.
Royals, residents & rock
The ‘Royals, Residents & a Rock Festival’ mural at the Station Hill development
built by Sir Robert McAlpine is part of Reading’s new public realm, featuring local celebrities like Ricky Gervais and Neil Papworth, sender of the first-ever SMS message.
