Esh Construction appointed for £3.1M Rotherham flood alleviation scheme

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council has appointed Esh Construction to deliver a £3.1M flood alleviation scheme, aimed at reducing the risk of repeating the severe flooding that has occurred in the village of Whiston in recent years. The post Esh Construction appointed for £3.1M Rotherham flood alleviation scheme appeared first on New Civil Engineer.

‘Critical window’ for UK climate adaptation, warns CCC and ICE

The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) has echoed concerns raised by the Climate Change Committee (CCC) which says the “British way of life under threat from heat, flooding and drought”. The post ‘Critical window’ for UK climate adaptation, warns CCC and ICE appeared first on New Civil Engineer.

Piling without the impact

Flooding and erosion, driven by climate change, will require extensive ground engineering. This comes with its own environmental impacts. Piling contractors must find ways to deliver this work, while minimising noise and vibration. Will North reports.

Mindset and financial change needed in flooding say experts

Flood and coastal assets are under increasing strain. Ageing infrastructure, more frequent and intense weather events and constrained operational budgets are combining to create a growing maintenance challenge across the sector. The post Mindset and financial change needed in flooding say experts appeared first on New Civil Engineer.

AI data model predicts more than 1M homes not protected by flood defences

A new AI-driven data analysis model has revealed up to 1.2M buildings across England sit outside flood defences and could be vulnerable to future flooding if resilience is not bolstered. The post AI data model predicts more than 1M homes not protected by flood defences appeared first on New Civil Engineer.

The Economist - See what three degrees of global warming looks like, 30102021

If global temperatures rise three degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the results would be catastrophic. It’s an entirely plausible scenario, and this film shows you what it would look like.

Vox - Why Jakarta is sinking 19022021

The 400-year curse dragging Indonesia's capital into the sea: Like many coastal cities around the world, Jakarta is dealing with sea level rise. But Indonesia's biggest city also has a unique problem: Because of restricted water access in the city, the majority of its residents have to extract groundwater to survive. And it's causing the city to sink.

BBC World Service - Last chance to save the world’s ‘sinking cities’? 27102021

Lagos, Jakarta and Mumbai are on the front line of climate change with increasingly intense rainfall and storm surges threatening their futures. Swenja Surminski, a climate change resilience expert from the London School of Economics explains.

Just-have-a-Think - Eastern Pacific Ocean is cooling NOT warming! Are the climate models wrong, 13112022

Climate models have been getting more and more sophisticated as the power of super computers has increased exponentially over the last few years. But have all the variables been factored in? A machine is only as good as the person that builds it, after all. Now a new research paper has found some very strange temperature differences in the Eastern Pacific Ocean between climate models and observed 'real world' measurements. So, what's going on?

Tom Scott - This tiny railroad across the sea has an important job, 15112021

The Lorenbahn, the Lüttmoorsiel-Nordstrandischmoor island railway, is famous for the tiny, private trains that take residents to and from the mainland. But that's not why it was built: and it's got a more useful purpose as well