National Highways will have to pay £2.5M and carry out a “complex” repair procedure on a bridge in Essex that was struck by an excavator being carried on a lorry.
Severalls Lane Bridge is located on the A12 Colchester Northern Bypass and in March 2020, two of the bridge’s beams were…
Construction has started on a dual purpose project to build flood alleviation and a relief road for the village of Benson, which lies southeast of Oxford on the River Thames.
The £6.9M Benson relief road will be an alternative route from the A4074 and B4009, north of Benson. It is designed…
The government has pledged to redirect HS2 funding worth £8.3bn to deal with potholes and resurface more than 8,000km of roads across England in a moved described as “a game changer” by experts.
It is part of the government’s Network North plan, with money from the cancelled HS2 Phase 2…
North Somerset Council has given final approval for construction of Banwell Bypass to progress despite costs increasing by more than a third to £89.2M.
Originally tabled in 1927, the scheme gained planning approval in March this year but was put on hold as cost increases became clear and the council needed…
National Highways has paid Skanska an additional £24M for the £950M A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet scheme after it was delayed by a legal challenge.
The delay in start and associated inflationary impacts have seen the cost of the scheme rise. This brings Skanska’s construction contract for the job to…
Wiltshire contractor MJ Church, working on behalf of National Highways, has completed a bridge refurbishment project in the West Country a month ahead of schedule.
The firm's prompt work allowed traffic to return to the M5 crossing near the outskirts of Cheltenham this week rather than in mid-December as initially planned.…
Low carbon fencing materials and smart fibre reinforced plastic bridge beams are among the innovations to progress to the final stage of National Highways’ Accelerating Low Carbon Innovation programme.
In July, seven SMEs were granted between £15,000 and £30,000 through the programme organised by National Highways in collaboration with Connected Places…
Contractor Graham has hit two “significant” milestones on the £170M project to upgrade junction 28 of the M25 motorway.
The M25 junction 28 connects the M25 with the A12, as well as providing local access to Brentwood in Essex and the A1023 Brook Street. At peak times up to 7,500 vehicles…
National Highways’ safety upgrades scheme on the M40/M42 interchange in the West Midlands is set to complete months earlier than expected thanks to the use of precast concrete barriers.
The scheme, being carried out by bmJV (Bam Nuttall and Morgan Sindall), includes replacing almost 9km of steel central reservation barrier with…
Contractors have been invited to tender for a £100M civils framework for works on the trunk road and county areas in North and mid-Wales.
Gwynedd Council has launched the framework, which is for works across five Welsh local authority areas: Gwynedd, Conwy and Denbighshire, Flintshire and Wrexham, West Wales and the…
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