Category: Video
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Video | HS2’s TBM Anne lifted to the surface in west London
Engineers from HS2’s London tunnels contractor, Skanska Costain Strabag JV, have begun lifting the last of four giant tunnelling machines to the surface. Weighing a total of 1,700 tonnes and stretching for around 150m, tunnel boring machine (TBM) Anne must be lifted out of the shaft in sections using a giant gantry crane. The first…
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Video | Electricity towers dismantled ahead of housing development
Electricity distributor UK Power Networks has dismantled three electricity towers in Mid Sussex to allow for the construction of a new residential development and community infrastructure north of Burgess Hill. Overhead electricity lines and towers by the A2300 were replaced with 1km of underground cables. Another tower is scheduled for removal from the local electricity…
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Video | Murphy installs Greek Street bridge beams in four days
New footage shows Murphy installing the beams for Stockport’s new Greek Street bridge in just four days. Over the last two weeks, the contractor has dismantled and removed 200 beams from the old structure, and lifted and positioned beams for its replacement over five railway lines. Each of the large steel and concrete beams was…
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Video | Murphy installs Greek Street bridge beams in four days
New footage shows Murphy installing the beams for Stockport’s new Greek Street bridge in just four days. Over the last two weeks, the contractor has dismantled and removed 200 beams from the old structure, and lifted and positioned beams for its replacement over five railway lines. Each of the large steel and concrete beams was…
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Video | Drone footage shows HS2 river realignment
New drone footage shows HS2’s completion of the realignment of the River Cole near Coleshill in Warwickshire. The project was carried out to allow for the construction of the Birmingham Spur of the Delta Junction in the high-speed route. The realignment project was designed by HS2’s Mott MacDonald Systra Design joint venture and delivered by…
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Video | Skanska receives huge steel beams for new Penrith railway bridge
Skanska has overseen the delivery of five huge ‘VIBs’ (very important beams) that will be used for major sections of a replacement railway bridge over the M6 next year. The contractor is delivering the £60m project for Network Rail to replace Clifton railway bridge near Penrith after the old bridge reached the end of its life…
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Video | Sequence trial assembly ahead of Stockport bridge construction
(Credit: Network Rail) Drone footage shows the trial assembly of huge concrete components of a £20m bridge and roundabout that Murphy is building for Network Rail in Stockport. The video captures how the components for the bridge have been made and tested over recent months at a huge manufacturing site in Ireland. The bridge components…
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Video | Timelapse shows Esh installing beams at Stockton bridge project
Footage shows Esh Construction installing 47 precast concrete bridge beams across four days at the £23m Stockton Waterfront urban park project. The beams were installed with support from reinforced concrete specialist BEMAC Construction to form the land bridge above the A1305 Riverside Road carriageway. They were manufactured by Shay Murtagh Precast in Ireland and include…
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Video | Big Carl lifts second giant dome into place at Hinkley Point C
Big Carl, the world’s largest crane, has lifted into place the 245-tonne dome of Hinkley Point C’s second reactor building. The 14m-tall dome closes the 44m-high reactor building. Work on Unit 2 was stopped during the pandemic. Although the second dome was lifted 18 months after the first, Unit 2 is further ahead thanks to…
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Video | Footage shows two of the world’s biggest tower cranes at HS2
Heavy lift contractor Marr and the Balfour Beatty Vinci Systra joint venture (BBVS JV) are using three cranes, comprising two of Marr’s 330-tonne capacity M2480D heavy lift luffing cranes, supported by a 96-tonne capacity M860DX, to declutter the site. View the original article and our Inspiration here