On Wednesday evening I had the pleasure of joining around 150 students, parents and industry figures at the second annual Taylor Woodrow Inspiration Lecture held in the grand surroundings of One Great George Street in Westminster - the home of The Institution of Civil Engineers. The theme of this years lecture - intended to put …
Victoria Station Upgrade
On Tuesday morning I visited the Victoria Station Upgrade project in London to do annual reviews with two trainees working toward their Chartered Professional Review for full corporate membership of the Institution of Civil Engineers. They are two great candidates one male and one female doing equal roles on site and both are aiming to …
Cricket. First game for 20 years!
Last week my employer Vinci Construction UK played the first of a series of friendly 20:20 cricket games against other civil engineering and related companies. We played consulting Engineers AECOM at a very nice ground in St Albans - The Old Albanians ground at Woollam Playing Fields. I went along to take some photos (mainly …
Crossrail Whitechapel Progress
The other day - whilst passing through London in the daylight - I continued on my District Line tube train and stopped off in Whitechapel to see if I could see anything of the construction work going on in the area for the new Whitechapel Crossrail Station which will ultimately link the underground, overground and Crossrail in …
