Engineers on High Speed 2 (HS2) have revealed innovations that utilise on-machine technologies to improve earthmoving processes and allow real-time digital concrete testing during transportation.
The efficient earthmoving technology has been utilised in a partnership between HS2 main contractor EKFB (Eiffage, Kier, Ferrovial, Bam) and equipment supplier Finning and has reportedly…
Residents around the paused High Speed 2 (HS2) London Euston work site are “frustrated and angry” while complaints about construction remain high across the whole of Phase One, according to the independent construction commissioner.
In his latest quarterly report into the construction of the high-speed rail line, HS2 independent construction commissioner…
Kier is set to take on the troubled Birmingham roads maintenance contract under a £2.7bn private finance initiative.
The Manchester-based contractor, which has been maintaining the West Midlands city's highways for three and a half years on an interim basis, was announced as preferred bidder for an 11-year deal starting February…
October saw a flurry of senior appointments around the civil engineering sector at the likes of the National Infrastructure Commission, EKFB and Pick Everard.
A round up of the biggest moves and appointments during October follows below. To feature on next month’s appointments roundup email robert.hakimian@emap.com. Former Crossrail 2 and TfL…
High Speed 2 (HS2) engineers have lifted the first 90t beams into place for the Thame Valley Viaduct, the first major rail viaduct in the UK to have been manufactured off-site.
Construction started in June with the installation of the 42t precast concrete piers. Now, EKFB (Eiffage Kier Ferrovial Bam JV)…
Shropshire Council has granted listed building consent for works to take place on a 19th century bridge near Oswestry that was damaged when hit by an HGV earlier this year.
The grade II bridge carries the B4396 over the River Morda between the villages of Knockin and Llynclys, south east of…
Somerset Council has signed Kier to its eight-year £225M road maintenance contract to look after the county’s 6714km network.
Kier will take over in April next year when Milestone Infrastructure’s current contract runs out, to provide key maintenance works including road repairs, drainage and verge cutting. Somerset Council will change the…
Arup, Mott MacDonald, WSP and Balfour Beatty are among numerous tier 1 contractors and consultants that have been paid a share of the £1.25bn spent to date on works for the scrapped Phase 2 of High Speed 2 (HS2).
The fate of the UK’s flagship infrastructure project was finally made official…
Work is set to restart on the £55M project to create two new stations in the Black Country, after local transport chiefs confirmed that Kier will take over from failed Buckingham Group.
Transport for the West Midlands said groundworks would resume on the sites of Willenhall and Darlaston rail stops after…
A section of Botley Road beneath a railway bridge next to Oxford station will remain closed until October 2024 due to “unique challenges” in the £161M station works, Network Rail has confirmed.
The road had been due to reopen next month after completing the diversion of 11 different utility services. It…
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