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The latest episode of The Engineers Collective is out now. Joining NCE features editor Nadine Buddoo and reporter Catherine Kennedy are Tim Barrett, who is senior environmental specialist for the Port of San Diego’s environmental conservation department and Andrew Rella, global director of engineering for eco-engineering company ECOncrete. They explain how a blue economy model is allowing the Port of San Diego in the US to explore innovative infrastructure solutions, and discuss the challe...

Crossrail has officially entered trial running on the central section of the London railway line. Trial running involves the extensive commissioning of the railway and is seen as a major milestone for getting the line opened during the first half of 2022. A Crossrail spokesperson confirmed that the project had entered trial running yesterday morning (May 10), with four trains per hour initially running through the tunnels. The spokesperson added that more information will be made available late...

Crossrail platforms under construction at Liverpool Street Crossrail trains have begun trial runs through the central section of the £19bn line. The trial-running phase will ensure the trains and signalling systems work in harmony before the line can open to commuters in the first half of 2022. Crossrail chiefs had hoped to begin trial running of the central section in April, but delays due to the pandemic pushed back construction and testing schedules. At the end of last month, The entire tr...

Marking one year since the start of the second road investment strategy (RIS2), the latest episode of The Engineers Collective explores Highways England’s progress so far and the key challenges ahead. Joining NCE features editor Nadine Buddoo and reporter Catherine Kennedy is special guest Graham Richards who is the Office of Rail and Road’s (ORR) director of planning and performance. Richards discusses the ORRs role in monitoring and enforcing Highways Englands performance and efficiency, ...

Crossrail has made enough progress to no longer be considered a construction site but the £19bn project is still yet to start its crucial train-testing phase, Construction News can reveal. As reported earlier this month, Crossrail leaders had hoped trial runs of trains through central London could begin by the end of the first quarter of 2021, or just after, but failed to realise that ambition. The phase, called trial running, marks six-to-nine months before the whole project should be comple...

(Image: BGR India) BGR Rating : 3.8/5 Realme 8 was launched in India earlier this year and now the company has released the 5G variant of the device dubbed the Realme 8 5G. Unlike other smartphones that simply replace the processor and launch the same device as the vanilla 4G version, Realme has stepped up and changed lot of things in its latest budget 5G smartphone. Some of these changes include a 48-megapixel triple-camera setup on the back rather than a 64-meg...

Podcast | Why COP26 decisions are critical and what they will mean for civil engineers As teen climate activist Greta Thunberg calls for the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) to be delayed for a further year due to the pandemic, the latest episode of The Engineers Collective explores why it is critical for the event to take place in 2021 and what decisions civil engineers should be looking out for. Joining NCE editor Claire Smith and reporter Catherine Kenned...

Crossrail project representative Jacobs has raised concerns about the growing list of work that is being deferred on the project. In its latest project report, known as Prep 11, Jacobs reveals that approximately 4,500 items of work have been pushed back on Crossrail’s stations programme until after trial running of the railway has begun. Jacobs adds that outstanding work on the project’s “routeway, shafts and portals is also a concern”. Trial running will involve the intensive operation...

The phone starts at a price of Rs 18,999. The Poco X3 Pro has scored 540329 points on AnTuTu. Pocos been really busy in the smartphone market this year. The phone maker has launched a number of new phones, with the latest on the list the Poco X3 Pro. This is a more powerful variant of the Poco X3 which was launched earlier last year. While very much like the Poco X3, the all-new Poco X3 Pro is a strange beast. Launched at a starting price of Rs 18,999 it comes fighting against popular offering...

Trial runs of Elizabeth line trains through the centre of London have not yet started, despite Crossrail leaders hoping the phase would begin last month. At a Transport for London (TfL) board meeting in October, Crossrail chief executive Mark Wild described the trial-running phase – when trains move through the central stretch of the rail line – as being arguably the most important future point of the programme as it will mean only six-to-nine months’ work remains before the train line wi...