To celebrate National Apprenticeship Week (NAW) our New Wear Footbridge team invited apprentice engineers from across VolkerStevin to visit the project and see the amazing work the team are doing in Sunderland. Apprentice engineers from the Preston Flood Risk Management Scheme, Appleby Flood Risk Management Scheme and Macclesfield Wastewater Treatment Works, travelled to Sunderland to gain insight into the engineering behind the bridge.
The apprentices were given a presentation, covering the challenges faced on the project and the solutions developed to overcome them. Following this the group was taken onsite, to visit both the north and south sides of the bridge. Adam Tattersall, Apprentice Engineer based on the New Wear Footbridge, talked through ongoing site activities and answered questions from the group had.
After spending the day on site, the apprentices attended an ICE event: An introduction to the second generation of Eurocode 7. The Eurocodesare a series of ten European Standards, providing a common approach for the design of buildings and other civil engineering works and construction products.
In the first Northern Geotechnical Group meeting of 2025, Stuart Hardy the Associate Director at Arup, introduced the new elements of the second generation of Eurocode 7. Eurocode 7 covers aspects of geotechnical design, Stuart outlined the important new considerations developed in this update.
