News

19th July, 2018

Infrastructure design contributes to planning approval on Central Quay, Cardiff

Acting for Rightacres Property Co Ltd, our civils and infrastructure specialists in Cardiff have contributed to the successful planning application on Phase 1 of the Central Quay development in Cardiff that will regenerate the Brains Bre...
10th July, 2018

Major UK rail freight interchange appointment for Hydrock

Hydrock has been appointed by db symmetry to provide full multi-disciplinary engineering services to its Hinckley National Rail Freight Interchange scheme which will deliver a multi-purpose cargo interchange and distribution facility, al...
09th July, 2018

Residential asbestos ground investigations: a Part 2A case study

First published in CIWEM’s Contaminated Land Network Newsletter, June 2018, James Macfarlane of Hydrock and Anna Spinks of City of Wolverhampton Council present a case study on the scope of works to remove asbestos-contaminated soils fro...
05th July, 2018

Building tall in Bristol - a roundtable discussion

Gavin Bridge from leading regional developer, Cubex, posed the big questions on the potential to build tall in Bristol at a round-table discussion hosted by Hydrock last month. Read the highlights from the eight experts who discussed the...
02nd July, 2018

Hydrock support CBRE with RFU Rugby 365 programme

We are supporting leading real estate advisers, CBRE with technical advice on transport and infrastructure matters as part of the RFU’s Rugby 365 Artificial Grass Pitches (AGP) programme which aims to invest in creating more access to th...
29th June, 2018

Hydrock supports VolkerStevin on major defence framework

Hydrock has supported VolkerStevin, to win a place on the Clyde Commercial Framework supporting the £1.3bn Clyde programme to deliver state-of-the-art facilities. This flagship 10-year framework is with the Defence Infrastructure Organis...
26th June, 2018

INWED18 - 7 of our female engineers inspire 30 girls on the diversity of engineering

Hydrock celebrated International Women in Engineering Day on Friday 22nd June by running two workshops for female school-children in our offices in Bristol and Almondsbury, informing and inspiring them on the opportunities from a career ...
20th June, 2018

Hydrock supports planning submission for £210m South Bank development in Leeds

Our multi-disciplinary engineering capability has been key to supporting developer, X1 with their planning submission for a £210m mixed-use development in Leeds’ South Bank - set to create more than 900 new homes over five phases, suppor...
15th June, 2018

Multiple wins at property awards night

The National College for Nuclear (South) scoops prestigious Project of the Year (over £5m) award at the Michelmores Property awards on a night which saw success for four Hydrock projects.
07th June, 2018

Hydrock appointed to engineer Techniquest’s Science Capital Project

Hydrock has been appointed to provide multi-disciplinary engineering services to the new extension for Techniquest, the popular science discovery centre in Cardiff Bay.
01st June, 2018

Hydrock’s fire engineering team expands further

We are delighted to welcome Kieran Cooper and Craig Lobban to Hydrock’s rapidly growing national fire engineering team.
29th May, 2018

Hydrock celebrates topping out at luxury retirement village

Earlier this month Hydrock joined with its design and construction team partners to celebrate the topping out of phase 2A of the 25-acre retirement village development at Wadswick Green in Wiltshire.