Huge congratulations to one of JGP’s Engineers, Mark Burrows, for gaining his Chartered Engineer status from the ICE. As highlighted on the ICE website, Chartered Engineers develop appropriate solutions to engineering problems. They may develop and apply new technologies, promote advanced designs and design methods and introduce new and more efficient production techniques, or pioneer…
Piling has started at Plot A1, Millbay, which is part of the Millbay regeneration area in Plymouth. JGP carried out the pile design to support the luxury town houses and apartments following detailed environmental and geotechnical site investigations on this plot. Geotechnical / Environmental Investigations
The media-predicted up-turn in the housing market seems to be filtering through to increases in mundic assessments. Mundic concrete is a problem found in many areas of Devon and Cornwall. During the turn of the twentieth century until the 1960s many properties were constructed using concrete blocks and mass concrete made with unstable aggregates…
JGP are working on behalf of Yennadon Stone Ltd regarding their future planning application for the proposed phased restoration scheme and extension to their dimension stone operations at Yennadon Quarry in Dousland, within Dartmoor National Park. Yennadon Stone is holding a public exhibition on 23rd April 2013 on the proposals for the restoration of the…
Lundy Island operates the oldest private postal service in the world. Since 1929 Lundy has issued some 350 postage stamps. In May 2012 a set of five thematic commemorative records were issued. The 89 Puffin Lundy Jetty stamp commemorates the jetty constructed in 1999 This Jetty was engineered by JGP. Structural Engineering Services
Huge congratulations to JGP’s technician, Tom Spiller, for winning a coveted ICE QUEST Technician Scholarship. The QUEST Technician Scholarship helps students who are getting hands-on technical and practical engineering experience whilst studying for academic qualifications which could lead to a professional qualification. The ICE were particularly impressed with Tom’s “enthusiasm for the industry and his…
JGP are involved in major development proposals which will regenerate the small coastal community of Millendreath, Cornwall. Our services have included desktop environmental and ground investigation reports, including geotechnical assessment of the coastal slopes. We have also undertaken detailed flood risk assessments including river modelling, wave analysis and coastal erosion assessment. Our engineers are involved…
Plot A1 is one part of the Millbay regeneration area in Plymouth’s coastal quarter and comprises the construction of luxury townhouses, apartments and business units. On behalf of civil and structural engineers Clarke Nicholls Marcel, JGP is currently undertaking the environmental and geotechnical Phase I desk study and Phase II site investigations on this plot. …
JGP IRATA trained engineers carried out structural inspections using fall arrest equipment on a 48m high communications tower on the Isle of Man. The engineers carried out repairs to several antennae during the inspections. Structural Engineering Services
