Tag: Civil engineering
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Lets Find out!!!
I recall waking up in the middle of the night to use the toilet , and I went “Oh, I think I got it now”. ‘WHAT DO YOU KNOW?’ popped into my mind as the THEME for this year’s Black History Month. It took me a while to think of a theme, so I thought…
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THE DORMICE EFFECT
The beauty of Civil Engineering isn’t all about designing and building structures. It’s also about preserving life or nature as we know it. This week I witnessed the preservation of life at one of the sites I had the pleasuring of supervising. BACK STORY : A train driver identified a lanslide sliding down towards the…
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Milton Keynes – Bletchley.
Have you ever noticed the staircases you pace up and down at the train stations moving from one platform to another? How well dressed they are? Making it safer for you to not slip and fall. Did you know that they are often well dressed with what’s called an ‘Anti-slip resistance flooring’ material. I won’t…
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Fulham Broadway Station
I’ve always asked myself where on earth is the Chelsea football stadium? Of course, it’s in London but where. I then had the chance of working on a project at the very train station just outside the stadium. I’ve also wondered how Civil Engineering contractors win a project in the first place. As with many…
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Graduate Residential Week – Part 2
This would be the second time we’ve taken a trip down to north of Devon at Skern Lodge – Appledore/Bideford. The team of Graduates have now expanded from 5 to 9 graduates – so you could say this year’s trip to skern lodge should be a bit more challenging and interesting as we had some…
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STEM
Every year I ask my siblings what they’d like to do when they leave school, and every year their answers are different from the previous year. It shows how it’s okay not to know what you want, but with some guidance from STEM, it makes a difference. Being a STEM ambassador enables me to contribute…
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Concrete Cubes; Not Sugar Cubes
Do you remember the white sugar cubes our old fashion parents/relatives used to drop into the oceans of their tea or coffee? Now picture those in a much bigger size but made from sand, cement, stones, and water. As a result, those mixtures combined give us a material commonly known as concrete. You scoop the…