Advance works contracts have been awarded for a section of Scotland’s £3bn, 129km A9 dualling project.
Perth-based civils firm I&H Brown Limited has been awarded the contract for demolition works on the 9.5km Luncarty to Pass of Birnam section of the scheme, which are due to start in early April. Transport…
Galliford Try is raising £157.6M via a rights issue to cover costs on the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route project following the collapse of joint venture partner Carillion.
The group announced plans to raise the money to cover losses incurred on the problem contract in its half year financial report published last month.…
Cheshire East council has been given the go-ahead to buy up land for the construction of a £90M, 5.5km bypass.
Compulsory purchase orders and side road orders for the A536 Congleton link road were granted by the Department for Transport (DfT) following a public inquiry. The council, which has approved full…
A £100M local authority pothole repair fund has been announced by transport secretary Chris Grayling.
Roads that were badly affected by winter weather will benefit from the funding, which is expected to help to repair an estimated 2M potholes and protect roads from future severe weather. An additional £75M of government funding…
A total of 158 employees have been injured while working on the £745M Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route (AWPR) since construction began.
Aberdeen Roads Limited - which is comprised of Galliford Try and Balfour Beatty - reported a further 130 near misses over the three-year period. The construction joint venture also includes Morrison…
Hampshire County Council is looking for contractors for a new £5.2bn construction framework.
The Southern Construction Framework (SCF) will replace an existing framework which delivers construction projects to around 50 public sector clients across south west England, south east England and London. Its annual spend is currently around £800M. The new framework…
Local authorities will need an extra £3.3M each and 14 years to get the roads they manage back into a reasonable state, a new survey claims.
The latest Annual Local Authority Road Maintenance (ALARM) survey says that there is a £556M funding gap between the funds local authorities in England and…
An American woman has become the first person to be killed by an autonomous vehicle (AV), highlighting the challenge engineers face in safely incorporating autonomous vehicles into an incumbent roads and traffic system.
Elaine Herzberg, 49, was struck by an Über-owned AV at around 10pm last night (Monday) in Tempe, Arizona.…
Costs on a major road improvement project have risen from £250M to almost £400M due to the “challenging nature” of engineering the scheme, including the unexpected exhumation of 19,000 skeletons.
Highways England has revealed that initial cost estimates for the A63 Castle Street scheme in Hull, which aims to reduce…
York City Council has started the search for a construction partner to build a £50M bridge and road as part of a major development scheme.
The procurement process for a partner on the 45-hectare York Central development is set to begin this month, ahead of an application for outline planning permission…
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