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In pictures: 40 years of the Kessock Bridge
BBC NEWS   05 August 2022   UK   Scotland  
One of the bridge's construction crew won a bet by hitting a golf ball between the two spans (Scottish Roads Archive)
<p>The Kessock Bridge in the Highlands is 40 years old.<br />"One of the beauties of being a civil engineer is you are often building things which are of benefit to the area in which you are building them," says Ken Wilson, who helped to supervise the construction ...
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The five: dinosaurs that once roamed the British Isles
The Guardian   15 March 2020   UK   Scotland  
<p>Last week scientists discovered the first Stegosaurus footprints in Scotland. Which other prehistoric reptiles lived on these shores? </p>
Breakthrough for £100m Shieldhall Tunnel project
BBC NEWS   13 October 2017   UK   Scotland  
The giant boring machine, nicknamed Daisy the Driller, emerged beneath Glasgow's Queen's Park
<p>A giant boring machine has "broken through" to complete the initial construction phase of the &pound;100m Shieldhall Tunnel.<br />The project to create the biggest waste water tunnel in Scotland has seen a 3.1 mile (4.8km) tunnel created beneath the south ...
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Understanding landslide impacts in Scotland, London
ICE   10 April 2017   UK   Scotland  
Understanding the impact of landslide in Scotland.
<p>The debris flow events of August 2004 led to an awareness of landslide events and their consequences that was unprecedented in Scotland. Following these events the Scottish Road Network Landslides Study was commissioned in order to ensure that the hazards ...
Construction firm Dunne Group folds with loss of 524 jobs
The Guardian   19 July 2016   UK   Scotland  
The skyscrapers of Canary Wharf in the City of London. Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock
<p>A Scottish construction group specialising in reinforced concrete foundations and superstructures for buildings, used in some of the tallest skyscrapers in London, has folded with the immediate loss of 524 jobs.<br>The failure of Dunne Group leaves the ...
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World’s largest floating wind farm set for construction off Scottish coast
The Independent   16 May 2016   UK   Scotland  
The project will begin later this year, with turbines erected in 2017 and the first power generated at the end of next year Alan O Neill - Statoil ASA
<p>Construction on the world&rsquo;s largest floating wind farm is set to begin this year off the coast of Scotland after developers were granted a lease on Monday.<br />Five turbines will operate in waters around 12 to 18 miles off the coast of Peterhead, ...
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Additional funding for A83 landslide mitigation works
BBC NEWS   25 January 2016   UK   Scotland  
Netting prevented 1,000 tonnes of rubble from reaching the road in December - but the route was later blocked
<p>A further &pound;6.6m is to be invested in works on the A83, including &pound;4m to mitigate landslides at the Rest and Be Thankful, it has been announced.<br />Transport Minister Derek Mackay said lessons were being learned from recent landslides and weather ...
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