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Bell Rock Lighthouse and Smeaton's Tower
Type
WICE Project

Bell Rock Lighthouse and Smeaton's Tower

Build a lighthouse to keep ships safe in dangerous waters The Bell Rock Lighthouse, off the east coast of Scotland near Arbroath, is the world’s oldest, working sea-washed lighthouse. A sea-washed lighthouse is built out at sea, often on a rock or reef. The structure was designed and built by Robert…

The Channel Tunnel
Type
WICE Project

The Channel Tunnel

Connect the UK to continental Europe with an undersea tunnel The Channel Tunnel opened in May 1994 after 6 years of construction. It's the longest undersea tunnel in the world. The Channel Tunnel is really 3 tunnels, running parallel to each other. Trains go through 2 larger tunnels. A smaller servi…

Clifton Suspension Bridge
Type
WICE Project

Clifton Suspension Bridge

Brunel's iconic structure that he didn't get to see completed The Clifton Suspension Bridge is a toll bridge spanning the Avon Gorge and River in Bristol, south-west England. It was originally designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel in 1831, and even though works started that same year, he didn't get to…

Waterbeach
Type
WICE Project

Waterbeach

Redeveloping a former barracks and airfield using nature-positive solutions Waterbeach is a major redevelopment of a former barracks and airfield, located just four miles north of Cambridge, UK. The scheme will be delivered in stages over the next 20 years and provide: 6,500 new homes five new scho…

Warksburn Old Church
Type
WICE Project

Warksburn Old Church

Transform a Victorian church into a Passivhaus-certified luxury holiday rental Warksburn Old Church is the world’s first conversion of a former church to create a home which meets the exceptionally demanding Passivhaus standard for energy efficiency, insulation and airtightness. Now a luxury holiday…

Spaghetti Junction (Birmingham)/ Gravelly Hill Interchange
Type
WICE Project

Spaghetti Junction (Birmingham)/ Gravelly Hill Interchange

Gravelly Hill Interchange, more commonly known as Spaghetti Junction, sits at junction 6 of the M6 motorway in Birmingham. It became famous for its unique, pasta-like appearance, and as Britain’s first free-flowing interchange without traffic lights or roundabouts. It was the key part of the Midland…

Thames Barrier
Type
WICE Project

Thames Barrier

Protect London from flooding with a massive steel barrier that works like a tap Recorded history of the River Thames flooding goes back a long way. In 1663 diarist Samuel Pepys wrote of "the greatest tide that was ever remembered in England… all White Hall having been drowned, of which there was gre…

High Speed 2
Type
WICE Project

High Speed 2 (HS2)

Britain’s new zero carbon, high-speed railway HS2 is the biggest rail investment ever made in the north of England, and Europe’s largest infrastructure project. The new railway will run between the north-west and south-east of England, stopping at Manchester, Birmingham and London, with trains conti…

Enabling Better Infrastructure programme
Type
WICE Project

Enabling Better Infrastructure programme

What is the Enabling Better Infrastructure (EBI) programme? The EBI programme helps governments around the world to identify and deliver on their country’s infrastructure needs so that their people and the planet can thrive. In doing so, it helps ensure that current and future populations have acces…

Brent Cross West Station
Type
WICE Project

Brent Cross West Station

On 10 December 2023, Brent Cross West, London’s newest mainline railway station, welcomed its first passengers. The new Thameslink station is the first to be built in London in over a decade. Led by Barnet Council, it’s one of the only rail infrastructure projects to be delivered entirely by a local…

Bahia and San Francisco Railway (BSFR)
Type
WICE Project

Bahia and San Francisco Railway (BSFR)

Build a railway to transport cargo and passengers The Bahia and San Francisco railway (BSFR) was one of the first railways to be constructed in Brazil. It was built by British engineers between 1857 and 1863. The 75-mile (121km) line was the first stage of a planned 360-mile (579km) rail route. The…

Salt's Mill
Type
WICE Project

Salt's Mill

Build an industrial building that considers the wellbeing of the people working there Sir Titus Salt was a Bradford industrialist who made his fortune spinning and weaving the soft wool from alpacas. Salt came from a religious family and was interested in the wellbeing of his workers. At the time, c…

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