The Welsh Government has released the finding of its Roads Review Panel and has elected to scrap nine major road projects in favour of finding more carbon-friendly alternatives.
As part of the National Transport Delivery Plan (NTDP), the planned third Menai bridge has been shelved as well as the Deeside “Red…
The collapse of an estimated 6,400 buildings across Turkey and Syria due to earthquakes in the region was avoidable, according to structural engineers.
The area was hit first by a 7.8-magnitude earthquake which was followed by a subsequent 7.5-magnitude quake and many aftershocks on Monday 6 February. The death toll in…
A major road improvement project in Somerset has been hit by inflation with costs of the scheme forecast to skyrocket by nearly £6M.
Plans to upgrade a 32km stretch of the A38 between the Barrow Street junction at Barrow Tanks and the Edithmead roundabout on the M5 were greenlit by the…
The National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has been asked by the government to provide recommendations on the infrastructure planning system and in particular the role of National Policy Statements (NPS).
An independent advisory body, NIC has been tasked by chancellor Jeremy Hunt and minister for local government and building safety Lee Rowley…
Turkey and Syria’s infrastructure has been severely impacted by two earthquakes registered last Monday, 6 February.
The first 7.8-magnitude earthquake was followed by a subsequent 7.5-magnitude quake and many aftershocks making this the most powerful cataclysm to have occurred in Turkey since 1939. While it is too early to tell the…
Balfour Beatty has been awarded a £16.8M contract to demolish and replace the southern piled viaduct of the A985 Kincardine Bridge, near Falkirk.
Transport Scotland awarded the contract on 7 February. Work is due to take roughly two years. The category A listed bridge opened in 1936, but the southern approach…
The £3bn dualling of the A9 between Perth and Inverness will be delayed as the Scottish Government continues to look for a contractor for a section of the project.
Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering, John Graham Construction and Wills Bros Civil Engineering were shortlisted to bid for the 9.6km Tomatin to Moy…
National Highways will retrofit three new emergency refuge areas on the M5 smart motorway near Bristol in the coming months.
The work is part of wider upgrades to the M4/M5 Interchange, a dynamic hard shoulder (DHS) section of motorway which means the hard shoulder is used as a traffic lane at…
National Highways has alerted contractors and consultants that it will be establishing a new Integrated Delivery Framework (IDF) to run for 10 years with an estimated value between £20bn and £30bn.
The IDF will replace National Highways’ current £8.7bn Delivery Integration Partners Framework, which is divided into regions and runs until…
HS2 Ltd has set out plans to improve capacity at junction 6 on the M56 to support future growth at the new proposed train station at Manchester Airport.
The proposals, developed in conjunction with National Highways, suggest relocating junction 6 of the motorway to the southwest and sequencing the works within…
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