A team from Jackson Civil Engineering has found an innovative and cost effective method of dealing with concrete washout water on one of its projects. Dubbed the 'Wootton Method' it mitigates the need to hire expensive treatment systems and ensures the highly alkaline water is either re-used, or disposed of safely.

We all know that cement needs sufficient time to cure and gain strength and ordinarily, when working with this material, enough time is built into the project schedule to allow for this process. However, when replacing bearings on the Orwell Bridge, a vital link in Suffolk's road network which carries over 60,000 vehicles a day, a team from Jackson Civil Engineering had to come up with a much smarter way of doing things to ensure the project was completed in a single weekend, to ensure the bridge was re-opened in time for the Monday morning rush.