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WEB2024 awards open for entries Celebrating the very best in UK collaborations and innovations in engineering. Now in its ninth year, The Engineer’s Collaborate To Innovate awards (C2I) was established to uncover and celebrate great examples of technology-led engineering collaboration across a range of different disciplines and sectors.
From conflict to communities: 75 years of the Bailey Bridge
WEBMar 8, 2017 · From conflict to communities: 75 years of the Bailey Bridge. Former Royal Engineer Alan Pearson, who now works for Mabey, reflects on his time helping communities with the Bailey Bridge's modern-day successors. A Bailey Bridge spanning a river in Mali. My attachment to the Bailey Bridge started during my career as a Royal Engineer.
Salary survey: What’s a UK engineer worth in 2022?
WEBMar 2, 2022 · According to this year’s survey, which attracted responses from almost 800 engineers across 11 different sectors, the mean average salary for UK engineers now stands at £58k which marks a modest 2.3 per cent increase on last year’s figure. And whilst more than half of our respondents (56 per cent) have received a …
Severn barrage could meet five per cent of UK energy needs
WEBJun 19, 2006 · A consortium of UK engineering companies is proposing a multi-billion pound renewable project that, it claims, could generate 17TWh a year, meeting five per cent of our annual electricity demands. The Severn Tidal Power Group (STPG), a consortium of engineers from Sir Robert McAlpine, Balfour Beatty, Taylor Woodrow and Alstom, is pushing for a ...
Smiths to ramp up Covid-19 ventilator output - The Engineer
WEBMar 30, 2020 · Production is being ramped up at Smiths from hundreds a month to thousands in response to the UK government’s challenge to UK technology and engineering businesses to help save lives in the Covid-19 pandemic. Already certified and used extensively in the UK and abroad, the paraPAC plus …
Timber towers: the rise of the wooden skyscraper
WEBOct 4, 2017 · PLP Architects' proposed Oakwood Timber Tower. Wood is the oldest of construction materials. It’s elemental, and humankind’s relationship with it runs deep, but in a very literal sense, we’ve been burnt by it one too many times. After the Great Fire of London wiped out 80 per cent of the city, the London Building Act of 1667 asserted all ...
McLaren Applied debuts IPG5 800V SiC inverter - The Engineer
WEBMar 2, 2022 · McLaren Applied is today launching its Inverter Platform Generation 5 (IPG5) 800V Silicon Carbide inverter at the Future Propulsion Conference 2022. The IPG5 inverter supports ultra-fast charging for EVs and aims to deliver ‘class-leading powertrain efficiency’, the Woking-based company said in a statement announcing its public debut.
The Big Project: London Array
WEBJun 25, 2012 · The developers, themselves called London Array, are a joint venture company 50 per cent owned by DONG Energy, Denmark’s biggest energy company, which is itself 76 per cent owned by the Danish government. A further 30 per cent is owned by E.On Renewables and 20 per cent by Masdar, the Abu Dhabi state-owned renewable energy company.
How big is the gender pay gap in UK engineering?
WEBJun 20, 2017 · The gender pay gap in UK engineering has been mapped by The Engineer’s 2017 Salary Survey – women engineers earn on average £10k less per year than male colleagues. The survey – which is now in its third year – is based on responses from 2,743 UK engineers working across a range of different sectors. Seven …
T-pylons for Hinkley Connection now fully installed
WEBAug 4, 2023 · All 116 T-pylons that form the core of National Grid’s Hinkley Connection Project are now in the ground, boosting the UK’s distribution network across the South West. The last of the T-structures’ 232 diamond-shaped insulators – which hold the high-voltage conductors in a diamond ‘earring’ shape – was recently lifted by crane into ...
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