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Major engineering and construction firms have expressed interest in taking on Birmingham’s troubled highways PFI contract.

Firms including Arup, Arcadis, Balfour Beatty Carnell, Colas, Kier and Tarmac have all confirmed their attendance at an open day event being hosted by Birmingham City Council and Birmingham Highways Ltd (BHL) next week. The…

HS2 Ltd has revealed the first images of the longest of three “green tunnels” that will be built across Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire as part of the first phase of the high speed railways line between London and the Midlands.

The tunnels have been designed to help blend the new high-speed rail…

National Highways is trialling “super swift” gates which automatically close off lanes in a bid to assist maintenance work on the UK’s strategic road network.

An automatic taper which can close off lanes in minutes and saves road workers having to put out cones in the face of oncoming traffic is…

National Highways has awarded an eight-year contract to upkeep and revamp West Midlands roads to Colas.

The contract is worth £328M and will see the civil engineering firm maintaining and upgrading the road network in Area 9, the largest National Highways region, which includes the West Midlands, Shropshire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Staffordshire…

Birmingham City Council and Birmingham Highways Limited have restructured the £2.7bn Birmingham Highways PFI contract.

It comes almost two and a half years since Amey bought itself out of the contract following five years of legal wrangling. The new contract will cover the remaining 12 years of the initial agreement, from…

National Highways has reduced the carbon footprint of its A46 Warwick Bypass scheme by 23% through using recycled materials.

More than half of the materials and layers from the previous road surface, amounting to 17,432t, were re-used in 5.6km of the northbound carriageway between Sherbourne roundabout and the Leek Wootton roundabout.…

Birmingham Highways Ltd (BHL) has finally begun its search for a permanent contractor to take on the ill-fated job of maintaining the city’s roads.

It comes almost two and a half years since Amey bought itself out of the contract following five years of legal wrangling. In a prior information notice,…

HS2 Ltd has revealed its shortlist for enabling works on Phase 2a of the high speed railway.

Six contractors have been named on the Advanced Civil Works contract, a major two-part enabling works contract for a new section of the high speed rail network extending from the West Midlands to Crewe.…

National Highways has announced the companies shortlisted for the road building contracts either side of the Lower Thames Crossing.

Worth £1.9bn, the two contracts cover the design and build of the connecting roads on the north and south side of the River Thames. Four bidders are in the running for the…

Fifty supply chain partners have been named on National Highways £3.6bn framework to carry out renewals on England’s motorways and A roads.

Contractors and consultants named on the Scheme Delivery Framework (SDF) include WSP, Jacobs, Kier and Interserve. Other big name firms to win work include Amey, VolkerFitzpatrick, Morgan Sindall and…