Suttle Projects Establishes New Bristol Base to Meet Growing Demand
Suttle Projects’ has established a new regional office in Filton Bristol. The new office provides an efficient and effective local presence from which to service Suttle Projects growing workload in the area with key customers such as Bristol City Council, Network Rail, highway authorities and defence organisations. Alistair Maidman Technical Director commented “Creating this local […]
Simpler Emergency Responses Deliver Assured Performance
Major infrastructure projects are inherently complex. So when we talk about simplifying projects we’re not talking about ignoring this reality. What we mean is managing complexity more effectively (along with the risks that come with it). This delivers a more reliable outcome. Valuable for any project – critical for emergency response works. Simplification means maintaining […]
Suttle Projects reap the benefits of increased diversity
Suttle Projects has increased the number of female employees by 48% over the last 12 months. Our female colleagues now fulfil many key roles across the Suttle Projects business including degree apprenticeships in civil engineering and quantity surveying, undergraduate civil engineers, responsibilities for assurance and compliance, financial management, data analytics, procurement and marketing. Livvy Williams […]
Heritage Structures Bring Unique Civil Engineering Challenges
Remedial works to heritage structures bring similar pressures to any other project, specifically the need to deliver resilient and cost-effective solutions. But there are added dimensions that shift the emphasis of project delivery. At the core is the need to apply the constraints and advantages of modern construction standards while preserving the character and integrity […]
Assess, Plan, Execute – A Flawless Response To Rail Emergencies
Ageing infrastructure, climate change, extreme weather; all of these make embankment failures and landslips almost inevitable. But that doesn’t make it any easier to predict where or when they will happen, or how extensive they will be. Achieving a rapid and purposeful response – every time – means having a tried and tested mobilisation process. […]
Simplifying Projects – Delivering Sustainable Outcomes
At Suttle Projects scheme delivery is simplified through meticulous up-front attention to detail, buildable designs, and clear communications throughout planning, execution and handover. Sustainable outcomes is a priority in simplifying projects for our customers; this will range from minimising disruption to people’s lives, ensuring we identify and protect sensitive locations and continuously shrink our environmental […]
Changing Tides, Enduring Solutions
The rise and fall of tides may be predictable, but the same doesn’t always apply to conditions and complications tides create for coastal engineering projects. There are many unique technical challenges that call for specialist solutions. Coastal environments are dynamic systems. They are subject to erosion and shifting sands owing to the effects of tides […]
Flexible Frameworks and The Challenges for Smaller Contractors
The Procurement Act 2023 came into force earlier this year. One intent behind the Act is to make procurement for rail projects more flexible and open to smaller businesses. This raises a significant and telling question for smaller rail contractors: are we ready to step up? Greater visibility over contract pipelines and simpler tendering processes […]
When Water Wins, Slopes Fail, how Smart Drainage & Rapid Response Prevented a Major Embankment Collapse
One of the biggest drivers of slope failures is uncontrolled water, blocked paths, saturated soils and weakened embankments. At one of these typical emergency landslips at Colhayne, Axminster Suttle Projects were appointed to expedite a permanent and rapid geotechnical and drainage-led stabilisation solution that would protect the operational railway and deliver a permanent reinstatement of […]
Keeping our watercourses safe demands meticulous up-front attention to detail
Many of our infrastructure projects are located alongside, over and in many cases within the rivers and watercourses themselves. The methodologies we adopt are shaped as much by how we can guarantee protection of these sensitive environments with absolute certainty over the demands of the engineering solution itself. Recent projects have included working on steep […]
Finding the Sweet Spot – Blending ground engineering expertise with the right methodologies. Installation First Time, Every Time
Our inhouse ground engineers and designers consider multiple factors including ground conditions and stability, ground water, potential obstructions, contamination and access constraints. From this we carry out detailed design work and methodology options to select the most appropriate piling foundation method and specification. Final designs aim to simplify follow-on operations and future maintenance and as […]
Suttles Projects Protecting Poole Park and Poole Harbour
Suttle Projects are simplifying a complex and logistically challenging scheme to enhance future resilience of the sluice channel infrastructure connecting Poole Park and Poole Harbour in Dorset. The project will deliver new flood control measures that will improve safety and environmental performance of the sluice system and in doing so enhance public amenities and protect […]