The third section of the new 109km Morava Motorway in Serbia has opened to traffic, following the early opening of the first two sections in spring this year.
This means that the first 28km of the dual carriageway are now operational, with the full motorway expected to be running in 2025.…
This year’s New Civil Engineer Tunnelling Awards were held in London last night, 7 December, to celebrate the finest innovations, projects, engineers, contractors and consultants in the sector.
Held at the Hilton Bankside in central London, the ceremony followed on from the daytime Tunnelling conference, which was packed full of ideas…
National Highways has awarded the £1.34bn Tunnels and Approaches contract for its Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) scheme to a joint venture of Bouygues Travaux Publics and J Murphy & Sons (BMJV).
BMJV was selected ahead of the other shortlisted contractors BFV JV (Bam, Ferrovial, Vinci) and DHJV (Dragados, Hochtief). At the…
The £8.5M government backed Centre of Excellence for Decarbonising Roads has called for innovators to come forward with low-carbon materials and designs for local roads.
The Centre For Excellence has been born out of the Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning and Transport’s (Adept’s) Live Labs 2 initiative, which is…
The UK’s independent public spending watchdog has concluded that the government has no clearly defined targets or effective strategy to make the country resilient against extreme weather.
The National Audit Office’s (NAO’s) new report Government resilience: extreme weather assesses the country’s readiness to withstand four extreme weather risks: droughts, surface water…
The Hinkley Point C nuclear power station team has celebrated a milestone with the installation of a polar crane at the top of the first reactor building.
Comprised of a main hoist, auxiliary hoist, maintenance jib crane and containment inspection man lift, the polar crane will handle multipurpose lifting needs. It…
The mayors of the West Midlands and Manchester, with support from Arup, have formed a private sector group to explore how rail connectivity can be improved between their two regions.
Mayors Andy Street and Andy Burnham convened the first meeting on 1 December, chaired by infrastructure expert and former non-executive chairman…
There has been a worker fatality at Laing O’Rourke’s Oxford North work site.
A Laing O’Rourke spokesperson said: “Yesterday morning (4 December) a member of our team working on the Oxford North project was seriously injured in an incident on site. The emergency services were called and attended site immediately, but…
National Grid has launched frameworks worth £58.67bn to meet its high voltage direct current (HVDC) cable requirements, including a £12.77bn civils and major works framework.
The electricity and gas network company has set out procurement to meet its growing HVDC needs and enable the connection of 50GW of offshore wind by…
The tunnel boring machine (TBM) Flavia has recommenced its drive beneath the Alps for the Brenner Base Tunnel after spending seven months trapped in a fault zone.
The TBM is driving the western tunnel of the Mules lot, the biggest lot on the £13.2bn Brenner Base Tunnel project. The lot involves…
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