A 30.5t steel bridge span has been lifted into place at the site of Bolton’s £48M transport hub.
Work for the rail, bus and cycle Bolton Interchange started in 2015 and is set to finish this summer. A 750t crane was used to lift the first steel span of the 100m…
New drone footage showing the fast pace of construction on the Mersey Gateway Bridge has been released.
The footage, follows the route of the new bridge from north to south – starting at the north approach viaduct as it crosses the saltmarsh and Widnes and moving across the River Mersey and…
The Garden Bridge Trust has said it refuses to accept Dame Margaret Hodge’s damning review on the future of the project, claiming it shows little respect for facts.
In a letter to Hodge, chairman of the Garden Bridge Trust Lord Davies claimed there were “a number of inaccuracies” in the report…
Five highway services contracts for the Borough of Kensington and Chelsea have been awarded to contractor FM Conway.
The deal will see the company deliver a range of schemes across the borough’s 188km of streets including road resurfacing and bridge and structure maintenance which includes landmarks such as Chelsea Bridge. The contract…
The future of the Garden Bridge hangs in the balance after a damning report suggested the project should be scrapped as it is poor value for money.
Dame Margaret Hodge’s report, published today, found that the risk to taxpayers had risen drastically after costs escalated from an initial £60M to £200M,…
Canadian engineering company SNC-Lavalin has made a play for one of the UK’s last remaining independently owned engineering consultancies but what is it, what does it have to offer Atkins and how likely is a deal?
SNC-Lavalin is relatively unknown in the UK, but employs around 35,000 around the world and…
Engineers would not have designed a collapsed US bridge to withstand fire damage, according to a leading bridge consultant.
A bridge on the I-85 highway in Atlanta, Georgia, collapsed after a fire broke out on Thursday afternoon following a suspected arson attack. It spread from an area used to store construction…
Bad weather has delayed the opening date for Scotland’s Queensferry Crossing by up to 10 weeks.
Forth Crossing Bridge Constructors (FCBC) said there had been fewer windows of clear weather than expected and high winds have delayed activities, so that work is now bunched up at the end of the programme. The…
Engineers have manoeuvred the 4,750t New Wear Crossing bridge deck into place during a 20-hour operation.
Sliding the 300m steel and concrete deck into position means it is now in its final location over the River Wear in Sunderland. The first section of the bridge deck was launched in October last…
Work to remodel the transport layout on Westminster Bridge in London have been postponed pending a security review after the terrorist attack there last week.
Last Wednesday a terrorist drove at high speed across Westminster Bridge, ploughing into pedestrians and killing three, before crashing into railings. Kier had been due to…
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