National Highways has seen increases in both corporate emissions and emissions from construction and maintenance in the last year, despite claims of “huge strides” towards net zero.
National Highways has committed to achieving net zero corporate emissions by 2030, net zero maintenance and construction emissions by 2040 and net zero road…
The judges for this year’s NCE Graduate & Apprentice Awards have carefully reviewed the 118 entries and the shortlist for the three categories has been revealed.
This year will be the 26th edition of the awards, which are celebrating the talent of those early in their careers in the civil engineering sector.…
This millennium has witnessed a series of unprecedented climatic, cultural, medical and technological changes.
The speed of this change and the impact it has had on our lifestyles is profound. The fact that the world’s population and the planet belong to a single integrated system is now a mainstream view.…
A major motorway bridge in Kent remains partially closed a week after emergency works were ordered — as parts are required from abroad.
Two lanes of the M2 crossing of the River Medway in Kent are expected to stay shut to traffic until at least the weekend. National Highways said a…
A section of Botley Road beneath a railway bridge next to Oxford station will remain closed until October 2024 due to “unique challenges” in the £161M station works, Network Rail has confirmed.
The road had been due to reopen next month after completing the diversion of 11 different utility services. It…
Taylor Woodrow has commenced work on improvements to two junctions in Exeter as part of Devon County Council’s £55M infrastructure enhancements scheme.
Designed by WSP, the works on the Devon Hotel roundabout and the A379 Trood Lane junction in south west Exeter are part of infrastructure enhancements to support the development…
The removal of the Spence Lane footbridge over the Armley Gyratory in Leeds is to begin later this month as the wider £41.97M Armley Gyratory upgrade scheme nears completion.
Spence Lane footbridge is the first of three footbridges around the gyratory, along with Geldard Bridge and Wellington Road Bridge, to be…
The government must ensure that future infrastructure strategy provides for self-driving vehicles if it is serious about their implementation in the coming years, the Transport Select Committee has said.
However, the committee also found that preparing roads infrastructure for self-driving vehicles is “too siloed and divorced from broader planning”. In August…
Morgan Sindall, working on behalf of National Highways, has completed the ambitious £65M concrete reconstruction scheme on an 8km stretch of the A11 in Norfolk.
The section of the dual carriageway between Spooner Row and Tuttles Interchange carries 45,000 vehicles daily and was visibly in disrepair before works commenced. The upgrade…
Initial milestones have been completed in the engineering works to safeguard a landslip prone stretch of road between Weldon Bridge and Rothbury in Northumberland.
The aim of the scheme is to remediate the impact of a landslip at Todstead on the B6344, which been active for over 40 years. In April…
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