Engineers are aiming to use energy from passing cars to power street lights by developing the next generation of smart road materials.
Researchers at Lancaster University are creating smart materials with a piezoelectric effect, meaning a material could produce electricity as a result of direct pressure. For example, a type of…
Environmental controversy surrounding the Silvertown Tunnel in east London is heating up as more campaign bodies and local councils hit out against the scheme.
In August environmental group Friends of the Earth called for the scheme to be scrapped, citing a disagreement with Transport for London (TfL) about air pollution modelling.…
From a blank piece of paper, to a world icon, the £1.35bn, 2.7km Queensferry Crossing took 10 years to complete, with just six for construction.
When New Civil Engineer visited, a week before the Queen opened the bridge last month, the gleaming cable stays in the mist looked majestic. Closer up…
Jo Blewett sits on the corner of an empty stage at New Civil Engineer’s UK Transport Conference, deep in thought.
She has been talking about Scotland’s £3bn, 129km A9 dualling scheme. As Transport Scotland’s programme manager, she is enthusiastic in her presentation on the topic, and at the front of her…
The Department for Transport (DfT) has published plans for a realigned £1.6bn A303 Stonehenge road upgrade.
Plans for the A303 upgrade between Amesbury and Berwick Down went out to public consultation in January. They included proposals to dual the road, build a 2.9km dual carriageway tunnel beneath the Stonehenge World Heritage…
Whatever the complexities of the situation, talk continues of the need to re-balance the economy and stimulate regional growth to drive economic prosperity across the whole of the UK, while it looks like the answer is assumed to always lie in London and the South East.
So it has been encouraging…
Bechtel is partnering up with the government’s export credit agency to showcase opportunities for the UK supply chain to help deliver its overseas contracts.
The opportunities include one of the largest infrastructure projects in Africa, the 743km Kenya expressway, which Bechtel announced it won last month. Other opportunities are available in…
Chancellor Philip Hammond has met three metro mayors to discuss boosting productivity across the north of England.
Hammond met Manchester mayor Andy Burnham, Liverpool City Region mayor Steve Rotheram and Tees Valley mayor Ben Houchen yesterday. Ministers will “shortly be announcing further funding” to approve northern roads in a bid to…
The Scottish government is seeking bids for the construction of the £30M Maybole bypass.
The work involves constructing 5.2km of bypass and associated junctions. Bidders who meet the selection criteria will be invited to tender, with work starting next year. Soctland’s minister for transport and islands, Humza Yousaf, said: “The Scottish…
Fresh controversy has hit the Silvertown Tunnel scheme in east London after Friends of the Earth and Southwark Council called for the project to be reconsidered because of air quality concerns.
The latest blow has comes days after it was revealed that the Health & Safety Executive has major concerns about the…
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