Civil Engineer working in Highways & Structures 👷‍♂️ Involved in local government, the ICE, active travel campaigning, STEM promotion. Tweets are my own.

Leicester, UK
Joined September 2010
Christmas 🎄 #CivEngExplained Twitter series 👷‍♂️- "How Bridges Work" Part 1 - Introduction to Bridges xitter.cf/russiankiwi3/status/13… Part 2 - Foundations xitter.cf/russiankiwi3/status/13… Part 3 - Deck Construction & Deconstruction xitter.cf/russiankiwi3/status/13… Cont.....
Good afternoon! If you need a distraction from 2020 doing its' best to twist the knife one last time before the year end, grap a cuppa, sit back and enjoy Part 3 of my #CivEngExplained series on 'How Bridges Work - Deck Construction and Deconstruction! #construction #Engineering
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Claudia's audition for the role of Ned Stark: #TheTraitors
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12-year-old me waiting for mum to get home from work and cook dinner #TheTraitors
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I have a hefty collection of old engineering journals from 2011-2015, publications are Modern Railways, New Civil Engineer, & The Structural Engineer, free to a good home. May suit various waiting rooms or for engineering students, most of the topics discussed are relevant today
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Bin day is Tuesday so if there are no takers they'll be recycled. Collection from Leicester #construction #civilengineering #roads #Railways #structures #Engineer
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Biggest takeaway here is that the menswear guy knows who Monty Don is????
I believe this jacket is from Dobell, a company that produces their tailoring in Turkey. I'll show you some telltale signs of quality and where you can buy a tailored jacket made in Britain. 🧵
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Grift-weasel from Texas decided to weigh in on the Birmingham bin stroke because they've solved all of America's problems, apparently
Birmingham, UK is completely covered by garbage now. Most news outlets won’t tell you, but the reason is DEI. Being a garbage man is less pleasant than most jobs. So, like most dirty jobs, it was mostly done by men and paid better than other government jobs. But in DEI-crazed Britain, a judge decided that was illegal. He ruled that the city had to pay out hundreds of millions of pounds to women doing more pleasant jobs in order to fix the “discrimination” of them earning less than garbage men. Now, Birmingham is broke and trying to slash the garbage men’s pay. They decided to go on strike instead. DEI means living in a pile of garbage instead of living in reality.
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Did #Heathrow find out how much they saved in the Octopus Energy Saving Session that only they knew about?
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Trump's latest tantrum is a timely reminder to donate to Ukraine donate.redcrossredcrescent.o… #SlavaUkraïni
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Honestly gobsmacked. Trump bullying a country ravaged by war, trying to take advantage, & demanding "thanks" like a child. Cancel the state visit & cut them off like we did to Russia. Donate to Ukraine 🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraïni
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Not to be that guy but the time has come, I'll be reducing my activity on this app due to the insane levels of misinformation & rubbish being shared by prominent accounts on this app, especially foreign interference who haven't a clue about the UK or British public
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The reason Channel 4 hasn't been privatised is because the numbers selected in each round on Countdown are used to communicate coded messages to covert spies around the world
Way too many low IQ conspiracy theories floating around. Give me high IQ conspiracy theories.
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Me in the kitchen at 11pm each night: #TheTraitors
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The Weakest Link walked so #TheTraitors could run
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From there, the dot-matrix signals developed & evolved to their current incarnation, the MS4, originally designed for the Smart Motorway schemes, now in widespread use across the country, & smaller AMI (Advanced Message Indicator), capable of showing symbols & two colours 8/
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If you're interested in gantries in general, have a look at my previous thread here: xitter.cf/HardHatAlex/status/131… /END.
Some recent discussion has prompted me to do a quick thread on some UK road gantries (Disclaimer: Not A Designer). You may have noticed the latest road gantries have different designs and look bigger, & bulkier, than previous designs 1/ #roads #motorway #gantry #construction
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