Year: 2017

Edinburgh Gateway tram and rail station won the Building Award at this year’s Scottish infrastructure award. The judges noted: “The project team showed technical expertise, real initiative and excellent project management while working in the severely restricted site to produce a first class product’. Hewson Consulting Engineers provided temporary and permanent works designs to contractor Balfour Beatty. […]

Bryn Cowlyd water treatment works in North Wales has been shortlisted in the temporary works category of the 2017 British Construction Industry Awards. The main feature of the project was a 60x 30m by 6m deep basement excavation in very difficult ground and groundwater conditions.  Hewson supported Skanska’s in-house engineering team by undertaking detailed soil-structure […]

The Malaysia-Singapore HSR will connect 6 cities, following a 335km coastal route with trains travelling at a design speed of 300kph that will cut travel time between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore to 90 minutes. The stations that have currently been identified are the terminus station in Kuala Lumpur (at Bandar Malaysia), Putrajaya, Seremban, Ayer Keroh, […]

Construction is well underway for the four stations we are designing on Jakarta MRT package CP103. Across the four stations, 98% of columns are complete, with concourse level construction well underway.  Concourse structures are a combination of precast and cast in-situ beams, with hollow-core type slabs.  The platform and roof structures above are steel in […]

Edinburgh Gateway has been shortlisted in the ‘Most Innovative Transport Project of the Year’ category at this year’s Scottish Transport Awards. Our proposal and detailed design for upgrading an existing retaining wall structure, rather than removing it and replacing it, was specifically highlighted in the submission: “A key innovation of the project saw the team […]

Hewson have been shortlisted for the Sustainability Award at the Ground Engineering Awards 2017, for our work at Edinburgh Gateway Station (opened at the end of 2016). As part of the work we undertook on this impressive project, we proposed and designed upgrades to an existing retaining wall in order to increase its design life to […]