The future of the troubled London Resort theme park in Swanscombe, Kent is in question again following the efforts of a coalition of wildlife charities to stop the development.
Representatives from the RSPB, Buglife, The Wildlife Trusts, Kent Wildlife Trust and CPRE Kent (The Countryside Charity, formerly known by names such…
Excavation work has resumed at Snowy 2.0 in New South Wales, Australia, with two tunnel boring machines (TBMs) back in action to complete key tailrace and headrace tunnels.
In late July, TBM Lady Eileen Hudson began work on the 6km tailrace tunnel to connect Talbingo Reservoir to the underground power station complex.…
Construction of a £7M, 125m long concrete flood defence wall has been completed in Rotherham, South Yorkshire.
A key project in South Yorkshire’s wider Rotherham Renaissance Flood Alleviation Scheme (RRFAS), the wall runs between the railway and the South Yorkshire Navigation Canal from Ickles Lock to Centenary Way in Rotherham town…
This panel discussion was filmed at the NCE UK Roads Conference on 18 May. In this talk, NCE deputy editor Belinda Smart sits down with Lower Thames Crossing procurement programme director Katharina Ferguson, Transport for West Midlands director of strategic partnerships & delivery integration Sandeep Shingadia and National Highways procurement…
This video was filmed at the UK Roads Conference on 18 May. With road projects going over budget by up to 40%, the need for practices that foster productivity is growing in importance. In this presentation Expedition Engineering senior director Ed McCann and National Highways commercial development director Martin…
Transport for London (TfL) and Tram Operations Limited (TOL) have been fined a total of £14M at London’s Central Criminal Court for the fatal Sandilands tram crash in Croydon in 2016.
TfL was fined £10M and TOL was fined £4M. TfL owns and maintains the infrastructure used by the Croydon tram…
Construction of a 3.8km road tunnel in Mumbai, India is scheduled to commence by October as the city’s planning authority approaches a decision on the scheme’s bids.
The twin tunnel will form the longest underground vehicular route in Mumbai, housing a signal free road designed to take commuters across the city…
The construction of the new Edginswell railway station in Torquay, Devon has been delayed, as local authority Torbay Council seeks to address a £10M gap in funding for the project.
Part ofthe Torquay Gateway project on the western edge of Torquay, the new station would be the third for the town.…
Automated production of over 83,000 concrete tunnel segments for High Speed 2 (HS2) has begun at a new facility at Hartlepool Docks in County Durham.
A portion of the tunnel segments will be used to construct 8km of twin bored tunnel for the Euston tunnel between Old Oak Common and Euston…
UK Export Finance (UKEF), the UK government’s export credit agency, has unlocked a €781M (£680M) loan to fund the Mersin-Adana-Gaziantep High Speed Railway in southern Türkiye.
Able to carry trains travelling up to 200 km/h, the high-speed railway will reduce the travel time from the dry port of Gaziantep – via…
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