A new junction on the M55 complete with a new dual carriageway and two connecting link roads has opened to the public today after Costain completed the construction of the £207M scheme.
Edith Rigby Way is the longest road in the Preston Western Distributor project that links the A583 Blackpool Road…
A barrier system will be installed to divert traffic from the Queensferry Crossing road bridge following failed attempts to keep it open when ice falls from the cable stays.
Bear Scotland has been testing different techniques in the hope of remedying a problem that has caused three closures to the bridge…
National Highways has spent £330,000 on legal fees for six of Roads Investment Strategy 2 (RIS2) schemes, including more than £200,000 on its A303 Stonehenge tunnel, a freedom of information request from NCE has revealed.
As the roads operator seeks to continue improving and expanding the nation’s trunk road network to…
The Midlands Highway Alliance Plus (MHA+) has named five firms which successfully bid for its £960M professional services partnership framework 4 (PSP 4).
Amey, Aecom and WSP were announced as winners of the consultancy services Lot, with two firms, Waterman Aspen and Matchtech Group UK, picked for the temporary and seconded…
The Climate Change Committee’s (CCC’s) confidence in the UK meeting its decarbonisation and net zero goals post-2030 is “markedly less” than it was a year ago and it has pointed out a wide range of holes in the government’s policies for achieving them.
The CCC is the UK’s independent adviser to…
After more than 20 years of weight restrictions, a road bridge over a key rail line in Scotland will be demolished and rebuilt resulting in a 12 month closure.
Network Rail has announced that Shields Road, on the south side of Glasgow, will close to traffic for a year from August…
A £500M plan to remedy a railway line bottleneck in Cambridgeshire will be discussed in a summit organised by Cambridge and Peterborough Combined Authority.
The Ely area capacity enhancement (EACE) is a proposal to upgrade the railway allowing more trains to run through Ely and to remove a stranglehold that the…
The cost of an Alun Griffiths road-building project has soared by more than a third since 2019, it has emerged, in the latest example of inflation hitting infrastructure construction.
North Somerset Council revealed it was seeking almost £24M in extra funding from central government for the Banwell Bypass, which was valued…
Bechtel is to play a key role in the rebuilding of Ukraine's war-damaged infrastructure.
The US engineering specialist signed a memorandum of understanding with the State Agency for Restoration and Development of Infrastructure of Ukraine (SARDIU). The news about the deal with Bechtel follows on from Aecom last week revealing a…
Putting female role models in the spotlight is a key part of today’s International Women in Engineering Day, which is now an annual event, and NCE is relaunching an initiative to ensure women remain in that spotlight throughout the year.
NCE is inviting women engineers to put themselves forward to join…
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