Swanage Railway were recently announced as winners of the Institution of Civil Engineers’ South West region Civil Engineering Award in the <£1million Project category.  The civil engineering project, supported by GB Card & Partners, has been completed to restore and upgrade three miles of former Network Rail line through Dorset, allowing Passenger trains to once again run from the London Waterloo to Weymouth main line at Wareham to Swanage, along the heritage railway branch line.  Representatives from Swanage Railway and GB Card & Partners accepted the award at the black tie dinner held in Bristol in July.

Staff based in GB Card and Partners’ Exeter office battled the wind and showers today to join cyclists from all over the UK for ‘National Cycle to Work Day’.  This is a continuation of our efforts as the entire team in Exeter commutes to the office by bike; so far this year the team has clocked an impressive 7,595 miles which is well on our way to our target of 10,000 miles for 2017!

To follow of our progress you can find us on Strava here or check out our weekly mileage below.

GB Card & Partners recently attended the Soil treatment and Materials Recovery workshop at the Exeter library, run by CL:AIRE in conjunction with the Geological Society and the South West Contaminated Land Forum.  The aim of the workshop was to provide an update on the latest industry guidance on material management, paying particular reference to the CL:AIRE Definition of Waste:Code of Practice (DOW:COP) updates and the recent asbestos in soil guidance (CAR-SOIL).