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Kier has purchased the rail division of Buckingham Group following its lapse into administration.

Buckingham Group went into administration on 17 August due to “rapidly escalating contract losses and a sharp reduction in liquidity”. The first major sale of its assets is its rail division, with Kier having announced it has…

A £3M overhaul of vital coastal flood defences in Plymouth begins today and will see Kier conduct the work on behalf of the Environment Agency.

The work centres on Sutton Harbour’s lock gates, which form a key part of the city’s coastal defences and provide access to the marina and fish…

Before the return of Parliament and new work ramping up, organisations including Buro Happold, Kier, Network Rail, the UK Atomic Energy Authority and more have made significant appointments.

A round up of the biggest moves and appointments during August follows below. To feature on next month’s appointments roundup email robert.hakimian@emap.com. Buro…

NI Water has awarded an early contractor involvement (ECI) contract to Kier-Bam joint venture and Stantec for the delivery of the Belfast Wastewater Treatment Works (WwTW) upgrade.

Contained within a 180,000m2 site at the Duncrue Industrial Estate, the Belfast WwTW was designed to serve a population equivalent of 290,000. The city's…

Tarmac Kier JV will carry out a refurbishment programme on London’s Blackwall Tunnel southbound next year that will include highway works, cladding replacements and electrical works.

The Blackwall Tunnel consists of two road tunnels carrying the A102 under the Thames between the London Boroughs of Tower Hamlets and Greenwich. The original…

National Highways has appointed Kier to carry out an essential maintenance programme on eight bridges on the M6 through Lune Gorge in Cumbria.

These bridges are concrete and approaching the end of their operational life. Kier will assess each and either repair or refurbish them. They all fall within a 10km…

National Highways, working with delivery partners Kier, Balfour Beatty and Keltbray, worked under Project Speed principles to collaboratively create a robust development consent order (DCO) application for the £1.3bn A66 North Trans-Pennine upgrade, the project manager told NCE.

Designed by an Amey-Arup integrated team from the preliminary stages, the A66 upgrade…

Kier, working on behalf of the Canal & River Trust, has reached a major milestone on the £15M Toddbrook Reservoir upgrade as it has completed piling for the new overflow spillway channel.

Toddbrook Reservoir became the site of a national news story in August 2019 when the main dam almost collapsed…

High Speed 2 (HS2) is due to begin the deck construction of a 450m long viaduct in Buckinghamshire as the first of 38 steel beams for the low carbon structure have arrived on site.

Weighing 40t and 25m in length, the beams have travelled more than 900km to reach the site…

Engineers have started assembling High Speed 2’s (HS2’s) Thame Valley Viaduct, which is the first major rail viaduct in the UK to have been manufactured off-site.

The Thame Valley Viaduct will be 880m long and carry the high speed rail line across the flood plain of the River Thame, just outside…