Balfour Beatty has launched tenders worth £334.5M for sub-contractors to take on major aspects of the £1.3bn A66 Northern Trans-Pennine upgrade project including earthworks, pavements and steelworks.
Four main contractors, including Balfour Beatty, Keltbray and Kier, signed up to deliver the A66 Northern Trans-Pennine project in October last year under what…
Challenges to three planned National Highways schemes for the A47 in Norfolk will go ahead following a green light from the Court of Appeal.
Former transport secretary Grant Shapps approved Development Consent Orders (DCOs) for the £50M to £100M dualling of the A47 between Blofeld and North Burlingham last June and the £100M…
Balfour Beatty AtkinsRéalis JV, working on behalf of National Highways, is set to lift a series of 80t concrete beams across the M25 in Surrey this weekend as part of works to overhaul junction 10 of London’s orbital motorway.
The works will see a specialist 750t crane arrive on site near Cobham,…
National Highways has completed the removal of infill from beneath the Great Musgrave bridge in Cumbria but there will be no additional strengthening or weight restrictions implemented before it reopens, despite the roads body's previous claims.
The public roads body was ordered to remove the 1,000t of concrete from beneath the…
The surface conditions of motorways, dual carriageways and single carriageways in England has met the roads regulator’s target nationally, but regionally the East and Midlands has fallen behind.
The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) has released its Benchmarking National Highways: Road Surface Condition report, detailing the roads operator’s performance in…
National Highways has completed the latest multi-million pound package of upgrades on the A27 including road resurfacing and bridge repairs.
The A27, a 108km long road which skirts towns along the south coast, is crucial in the trunk road network as it is the only major east west route south of…
National Highways will be ordered remove the concrete infill from beneath a 100-year-old bridge in Congham after its retroactive planning application was unanimously rejected by the local borough council.
St Andrew’s Lane Bridge in Congham was infilled in 2021 with around 1,000t of concrete for a cost of £127,000 by the…
Civil engineering firm Hammond ECS has completed maintenance works on the Grade II listed Pensford Viaduct in Somerset on behalf of National Highways.
The 304m long viaduct was originally opened in 1873 to carry the Bristol & North Somerset Railway over Chew Valley. Constructed in stone, it is made up of…
The Borough Council of King’s Lynn & West Norfolk planning committee has recommended National Highways’ retrospective application for its 1,000t of infill of the 100-year-old Congham Bridge be refused.
This means the roads operator will possibly be made to remove the concrete from beneath the bridge in a timely and costly…
Overnight closures of the M62 Ouse Bridge in the East Riding of Yorkshire resume tonight, 25 September, as the extensive work to replace the defective bridge joints across the carriageway continues.
The closure of both the eastbound and westbound carriageways between junctions 36 and 37 from 11pm tonight to 5am tomorrow…
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