We’re making great strides on our latest project for Arab Potash Company – an all-new, fully electric salt harvester! This specialised floating pontoon will be used to harvest carnallite (potassium salt) in the Dead Sea area in Jordan. At the moment, our multidisciplinary team is working hard across multiple locations on fabrication, assembly, and welding… Read More
For 30 years ending in 1977, GE dumped more than 1 million pounds of polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, into the Hudson River, turning a 200-mile stretch into a superfund site. The EPA ordered GE to dredge a section of the upper Hudson as a result, and ever since GE wrapped that project in 2015, the… Read More
One of the biggest challenges the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) is likely to face as the project to desilt and dredge the Vishwamitri river, which faced massive flooding last year, takes off, is the relocation of nearly 300 crocodiles that have made the water body their home. Among the 13-point priority list of flood-mitigation measures that the… Read More
Conservation groups in Panama are trying to halt the construction of a new port in the Pacific province of Chiriquí that they say could destroy breeding grounds and nurseries for marine species. The Puerto Barú project, located outside the town of David, would create a new port on Panama’s northwest coast, increasing trade and tourism… Read More
Shingle replenishment work is being carried out on a stretch of beach in West Sussex. Recent storms and gales eroded some of a shingle beach in Lancing which provided a soft engineered flood defence, the Environment Agency said. As a result, up to 20,000 tonnes of shingle will be moved from Shoreham Fort to the… Read More
