A major hotel group has teamed up with Bechtel to produce alternative Heathrow expansion plans, which it says could be £6.7bn cheaper than Heathrow’s own proposals.
The Arora Group, a leading chain which owns more than 57 properties at Heathrow Airport, commissioned Bechtel and other infrastructure experts to carry out a…
Early concept designs for a new rail station at Doncaster Sheffield Airport have been released, along with plans for a rail link feasibility study to be carried out by the end of the year.
Doncaster Sheffield Airport, previously known as Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield, released the concept designs for a…
Bechtel has landed a key role in the £370M expansion of London City Airport. Peter Adams, Highways England’s executive director for major projects and capital portfolio management, is also leaving the roads body at the end of August to join the airport.
The San Francisco headquartered engineering giant Bechtel has been named as…
Heathrow Airport has revealed plans for a series of viaducts to cross the M25, one of which would be the third runway.
The widest of three parallel viaducts bridging the motorway would act as the runway, while two narrower viaducts would function as taxiways for planes. Expansion programme director Phil Wilbraham…
Plans for Heathrow’s third runway to bridge the M25, described as a “deep joy” for engineers, have been slammed by a leading airline group.
International Airlines Group (IAG), which includes British Airways, has accused Heathrow Airport (HAL) of having no detailed risk or cost analysis for the proposal, which it says will…
The airport of the future will be at the centre of vast new residential and commercial developments creating an aerotropolis, according to a leading airport expert.
Speaking at New Civil Engineer’s Airports 2017 conference, Weston Williamson and Partners associate partner Alex Kirkwood said that with the introduction of cleaner and quieter aircraft,…
It is a modern day truism that big infrastructure projects must be better delivered.
But bridging the gap between the maxim and the application is an altogether different thing, and that is why Manchester Airports Group (MAG) project delivery director Tom Wilne spends his spare time thinking about a flower. This particular…
Crossrail services will stop at Heathrow as planned after the High Court dismissed Heathrow Airport’s (HAL) appeal over the amount it charges for use of its rail track.
Last May the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) ruled that HAL could not enforce its proposed charges for use of its Heathrow…
Mott MacDonald is to lead the consortium which will design an “airport of the future” at Auckland in New Zealand.
The Mott MacDonald-led consortium comprises architect Grimshaw, Australian based architect Architectus and local structural engineering consultant Holmes Consulting. It will produce the concept design for a combined domestic and international terminal.…
Crossrail may not stop at Heathrow Airport when the line opens in 2018, because of a dispute about the amount of money the airport has proposed to charge for use of a section of railway it built.
According to the Times, unnamed sources have said if the dispute is not resolved, Crossrail …
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