Improving UK infrastructure to drive economic growth and meet climate goals is both achievable and affordable – if the government makes the right policy decisions now, the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has said.
The government’s independent advisory body has released its second National Infrastructure Assessment – setting out a programme for…
Farrans Construction has been appointed as the contractor to deliver Phase 1 of the £100M Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA) expansion.
The expansion is part of Leeds City Council’s wider plans to improve the airport and surrounding transport connections. Farrans’ work on Phase 1 of the upgrade, the construction of the terminal…
Work has started on the site of a new airport and transport hub in Poland billed as "the largest transport investment in Europe".
The airport is known as Centralny Port Komunikacyjny (CPK), which translates to "central communication port" and is expected to cost €8bn (£6.9bn). While the plan has not received…
Stansted Airport seems set to have its terminal expansion plans approved while Bristol Airport is commencing on a £60M enhancement project.
London Stansted served 26M passengers in the last year and is looking to expand as it expects to pass pre-pandemic visitor numbers in the coming year. It has been given…
City of Doncaster Council is surging ahead with its plan to reopen Doncaster Sheffield Airport (DSA) by launching procurement for a company to bring it back into operation.
DSA was closed in November 2022 after its owner Peel Group said it was no longer commercially viable. Doncaster Council rejected this idea…
London Gatwick Airport (LGA) has launched a tender notice for a new £60M design framework agreement covering a number of civil and structural disciplines.
The airport issued a pre-qualification questionnaire (PQQ) covering early market engagement for the new agreement. The airport is seeking interested suppliers from across the market, typically involved…
The government has launched a consultation about implementing the "Action Plan", which it issued in February, to make improvements to the nationally significant infrastructure planning regime.
There are two preliminary points of praise. First, the officials and ministers who have been working hard have clearly sought to prepare a plan which gives increased…
At the end of July, government announced the price list for statutory biodiversity credits and they are pretty eyewatering – but what lies behind this and what are the implications?
From November this year – the precise date is still to be announced – or spring next year for smaller projects,…
London Gatwick Airport’s planning application to bring its existing northern runway into routine use has been accepted for detailed examination by the Planning Inspectorate.
The northern runway is currently only used when the main runway is out of action, but the plans would see it made available to run routine flights…
Atkins has collaborated with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) on a “digital toolkit” that estimates the embodied carbon associated with airport construction.
There are tools available in the market to measure carbon in buildings, however the newly launched solution, comprising three data-based tools, is specific to aviation. It is also…
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