National Highways will have to pay £2.5M and carry out a “complex” repair procedure on a bridge in Essex that was struck by an excavator being carried on a lorry.
Severalls Lane Bridge is located on the A12 Colchester Northern Bypass and in March 2020, two of the bridge’s beams were…
National Highways has paid Skanska an additional £24M for the £950M A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet scheme after it was delayed by a legal challenge.
The delay in start and associated inflationary impacts have seen the cost of the scheme rise. This brings Skanska’s construction contract for the job to…
Wiltshire contractor MJ Church, working on behalf of National Highways, has completed a bridge refurbishment project in the West Country a month ahead of schedule.
The firm's prompt work allowed traffic to return to the M5 crossing near the outskirts of Cheltenham this week rather than in mid-December as initially planned.…
Low carbon fencing materials and smart fibre reinforced plastic bridge beams are among the innovations to progress to the final stage of National Highways’ Accelerating Low Carbon Innovation programme.
In July, seven SMEs were granted between £15,000 and £30,000 through the programme organised by National Highways in collaboration with Connected Places…
Contractor Graham has hit two “significant” milestones on the £170M project to upgrade junction 28 of the M25 motorway.
The M25 junction 28 connects the M25 with the A12, as well as providing local access to Brentwood in Essex and the A1023 Brook Street. At peak times up to 7,500 vehicles…
National Highways’ safety upgrades scheme on the M40/M42 interchange in the West Midlands is set to complete months earlier than expected thanks to the use of precast concrete barriers.
The scheme, being carried out by bmJV (Bam Nuttall and Morgan Sindall), includes replacing almost 9km of steel central reservation barrier with…
Transport secretary Mark Harper has pushed back the decision on granting a development consent order (DCO) for the £1.3bn A66 Northern Trans-Pennine by four months.
The deadline for deciding whether to give National Highways’ major Northern road scheme the green light was yesterday, 7 November, but the decision did not materialise.…
Dozens of projects have been paused for safety reasons this week as Storm Ciarán wreaked havoc across the south of the UK.
Strong winds and heavy rains caused flooding, power cuts, road closures and damage to buildings across the south-west and south-east of England and south Wales, with heavy rains expected…
The leader of Dartford Borough Council has urged the government to “get on with” the Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) to help cope with the negative effect the at-capacity Dartford Crossing has on the local area.
Proposals for the new major tunnel are currently with the Planning Inspectorate but in March the…
A “significant” milestone has been reached on the £37M A14 reconstruction scheme as National Highways has successfully removed the concrete surface of road between Haughley and Tothill and replaced it with an asphalt one.
Having started in mid-April, National Highways has now removed 8,610m3 of concrete between junctions 47a and 49…
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