The Department for Transport (DfT) has outlined a pipeline of contracts for East West Rail (EWR) and High Speed 2 (HS2) that will see procurment commence before the end of the year.
EWR is a new £5bn high-speed rail line between Oxford and Cambridge that is being overseen by East West…
Track work that was due to be conducted this week near Stroud train station in Gloucestershire has been delayed by Network Rail due to the discovery of dormice in the area.
The works were part of a programme to conduct essential maintenance to the railway near Kemble train station, which is…
Graham has completed a major beam lift for the new £100M M2 junction 5 Stockbury Flyover improvements scheme.
The lift was completed at the end of last week when a 450t “mega crane” was used to lift two 56t edge beams and 16 internal beams each weighing 20t into place. Large…
Damage from a freight train derailment inside the world’s longest rail tunnel is more extensive than originally thought, with repairs expected to take months.
Investigations by Switzerland’s national rail operator SBB into the freight train derailment in the west bore of the Gotthard Base Tunnel on 10 August (see box) have…
National Highways has been presented with a challenge by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) to accelerate the delivery of noise mitigation measures by the end of the current Road investment Strategy 2 (RIS2) period, which runs from 2020 to 2025.
The roads body’s target for RIS2 was to provide…
The £10bn decommissioning work taking place at Sellafield has passed a milestone as engineers have begun to scoop out waste from the UK’s oldest nuclear waste storage building.
The Pile Fuel Cladding Silo (PFCS) at Sellafield nuclear facility in Cumbria is a sealed building with six compartments of radioactive material. It…
Galliford Try and designer AF Cruden Associates have agreed to pay Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) £11M after a legal case surrounding the original design and construction of the Cairngorm funicular railway was settled.
HIE sought legal action against the two firms in relation to faults found in the structure and…
Contracts worth £1.3bn have been signed by National Highways for the construction of the A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down scheme which has a total estimated capital cost figure of £1.7bn.
Known as the Stonehenge Tunnel, the project will see the construction of a new 12.8km dual carriageway to replace the existing…
Ofgem has agreed to allow National Grid to implement an amnesty for up to 50 energy transmission developments that are contributing to a logjam for new, renewable projects trying to connect to the grid.
Each of these projects has signed a Transmission Entry Capacity (TEC) contract with National Grid agreeing to…
Central Bedfordshire Council is inviting contractors to register interest ahead of procurement for a £400M highways works framework.
Although the procurement is being led by the council, it is doing so on behalf of the Eastern Highways Alliance which represents 10 councils including Cambridgeshire County Council, Essex County Council, Hertfordshire County…
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