Amey, Atkins and WSP have won a number of separate road framework contracts in south west Wales worth a total of £27M.
The three companies will undertake design services for the construction of civil engineering works in Bridgend and Neath Port Talbot on three different contracts worth £9M each. Amey’s contract…
The Department for Transport (DfT) has ruled that National Highways’ proposed upgrade of the A66 between Cumbria and North Yorkshire is “poor value for money”.
The cost of the scheme has risen by £300M in recent years and is now estimated to come in at £1.3bn. In the DfT’s latest business…
AmeySRM joint venture will replace the A533 Expressway bridge over the M56 this week as part of National Highways’ £128.9M package of wear-and-tear repairs in North West England.
The new 67m road bridge has been constructed on a platform next to the motorway but the contractor, a joint venture between Amey…
Emergency refuge areas (ERAs) on three smart motorways covering Sussex, Surrey and Kent may be shorter than the 100m length advised by National Highways.
On smart motorways – where the hard shoulder has been replaced by a live traffic lane – ERAs are designed to offer a place to stop for…
Skanska has installed two road bridges for its £282M M42 Junction 6 upgrade in Birmingham on behalf of National Highways.
The motorway project will allow smoother journeys coming on and off the A45, currently a well-known bottleneck. To create the new junction, which will also support access to Birmingham International airport…
The debate over the merits of alternative Stonehenge Tunnel options continues, with several organisations maintaining that modifications to the road scheme should be considered.
In response to world heritage organisation Unesco's report from its Advisory Mission visit to Stonehenge in April and National Highways' subsequent submission, the English Heritage Trust (EHT),…
National Highways' A47 Thickthorn Junction scheme in Norwich has been given the green light by transport secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan.
It comes after the planning decision on the £100M revamp of the junction was postponed due to the death of Queen Elizabeth II. However Trevelyan has now decided to approve the scheme's…
Morgan Sindall begins work today on National Highways' £37M replacement of the concrete surface on the A12 in Essex.
The project involves removing, reconstructing and replacing a stretch of the A12 between Marks Tey (junction 25) and Stanway (junction 26). According to National Highways, decades of use and hundreds of millions…
National Highways has abandoned its plans to infill a 156-year-old disused rail bridge in the South Downs National Park.
Last year, the road operator revealed that it would be instructing contractors to carry out the infilling of Stoke Road bridge under permitted development rights; which allows temporary works to be carried…
Balfour Beatty, Costain, Keltbray and Kier have officially signed a £1.3bn contract to upgrade the A66 known as the Northern Transpennine project.
The scheme will see the remaining 29km of single carriageway sections of the road dualled and key junctions between M6 Junction 40 (Penrith) and the A1 at Scotch Corner…
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