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The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has successfully relocated Halley VI Antarctic Research Station to its new home on the Brunt Ice Shelf. 

The Halley VI relocation team has carried out – for the first time – what the station was designed to do. Operational teams have spent the past 13 weeks moving each of the station’s eight modules 23 km upstream of a previously dormant ice chasm.  The station is now ready for re-occupation at the end of the Antarctic winter (November 2017).

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Greening Kew Gardens

News 16 July 2025

Greening Kew Gardens

Planning and listed building applications for the decarbonisation and conservation of the Grade 1-listed Palm House and Grade 2 listed Waterlily House at Kew Gardens were submitted to the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames this week. The scheme will include measures to improve accessibility and will also reinstate the original landscape setting.

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The Power of Four

News 15 May 2025

The Power of Four

Our project to bring the ruined Dockyard Church in Sheerness back to vibrant life has won four awards from the RIBA South East Region: RIBA SE Award, RIBA SE Conservation Project of the Year, RIBA SE Building of the Year and RIBA Project Architect of the Year for our very own Robert Songhurst. The judges described the project as “exquisitely restored”.

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