Projects

Contractors, consultants and subcontractors: how the construction industry works

Your civil or structural engineering graduate job will vary according to which phase of a project you work on. Find out where a civil engineer fits in the lifecycle of a project so you can choose the right job role for you.

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Building the Olympic Park for London 2012

From volunteering in Africa to supervising work on London 2012, there’s not much that civil engineer Andy Mateer hasn’t done in his seven-year career. He spills the beans on managing civils work on an Olympian scale.

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How one project boosted a graduate engineer’s career: designing a malt whisky distillery

Nathaniel Buckingham went from graduate to senior engineer on a Scottish distillery. He had to call upon his knowledge of both civil and structural engineering to design structures to house 30 whisky stills weighing 30 tonnes each.

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Solar panels spanning the Thames: two graduates work on Blackfriars station

Redeveloping a solar-panelled station on a bridge with the trains still running takes a large team of construction professionals. Two civil engineers talk piers, promotions and seeing their work on TV.

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Making a difference in Romania: how a graduate civil engineer is helping 200,000 people

Just a few days into her new job, graduate civil engineer Rebecca Main travelled to Romania as part of a team brought in to improve waterwork systems. She learned a lot, including when to laugh at herself.

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Being part of the clean-up: a graduate civil engineer champions the environment

Graduate civil engineer Chris Maguire explains how he took on a project management role in his graduate job. He not only worked to clean up our water supply but also became one of his employer’s environmental champions.

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Redeveloping Brighton’s New England Quarter: a graduate structural engineer joins the design team

Graduate Kate Jones got stuck into the structures of her first major design project: Brighton's New England Quarter. The challenges of sustainable construction took her into uncharted design territory.

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Extending London City Airport: engineering space for aircraft to self-manoeuvre

It's unusual for airports and water projects to overlap, but that's exactly the situation at London City Airport. Senior engineer Will Hellyer explains how he used innovative techniques to construct an aircraft taxi-way over water.

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Graduate on the job: project managing the construction of the Dublin Port Tunnel

In her first position after university, graduate engineer Liesl Fox worked on Ireland's largest civil engineering project: the Dublin Port Tunnel. It was her introduction to project management.

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The Thamesway Fastrack project on track: a graduate civil engineer climbs the career ladder

After two years as a graduate civil engineer, David Willey was promoted to section engineer on a £7m highways engineering project. Dealing with night work was just part of the job as he oversaw the project from beginning to completion.

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