Campaigners who have long called for West Yorkshire’s Queensbury Tunnel to be converted into a cycle path are hoping to use a recent planning decision that went against National Highways to their advantage.
The Queensbury Tunnel Society has urged Bradford Council’s planning team to take “enforcement action” against National Highways, following…
A 254m long conveyor is being used on the construction of a section of HS2 to remove spoil from site.
As part of its work as HS2’s main works contractor, the joint venture between Balfour Beatty and Vinci (BBV) has begun using conveyor in a bid reduce the number of HGV…
An underground station at Manchester Piccadilly “would introduce significant construction complexity”, cost around £5bn more and take up 13 years longer to build, a comparative study by HS2 Ltd concludes.
HS2 Ltd carried out the assessment following pressure from northern politicians and engineers who support the underground option as a way…
HS2 contractors delivering the tunnels and approaches into Euston station have received additional money to carry out the job.
HS2 Ltd has awarded the Skanska, Costain, Strabag joint venture (SCS JV) an additional £78M for its role in delivering the approach tunnels into Euston station. The total contact is valued at…
Experience of delivering the Øresund Crossing’s immersed tube tunnels is being applied to the Fehmarnbelt Fixed Link between Denmark and Germany.
Work under water and on land is well underway on the 18km Fehmarnbelt Fixed Link, which will connect Denmark and Germany by road and rail when it opens in 2029.…
National Grid team members celebrated a landmark moment for the London Power Tunnels (LPT) project last week, as the first of five drives by four tunnel boring machines (TBMs) was completed at Eltham.
The 140t TBM began its journey at the LPT site in Hurst in July of last year. In…
Tideway has reported a further £100M cost increase on its London Super Sewer project, despite ticking off a number of major construction milestones in the last 12 months.
Tideway’s overall cost estimate has increased to £4.3bn from its original budget of £3.52bn, announced in 2014. That is £190M more than was…
The Department for Transport (DfT) has asked National Highways to explain why it ruled out alternative routes to its Stonehenge Tunnel proposal.
It comes after local councils and transport groups complained that it was “not clear” how National Highways had ruled out alternative options. The current plans are for a 12.8km…
Another major milestone ahead of Silvertown Tunnel tunnelling was achieved earlier this month, with the lowering of the first elements of the tunnel boring machine (TBM) into the launch chamber.
The first element to be lowered down was part of the TBM shield, followed by the 250t main drive of…
National Highways has appointed Mace to keep tabs on the delivery on the Stonehenge Tunnel.
Following Mace’s appointment to the £420M National Highways framework for commercial and project management services in 2021, the company has been appointed as the complex infrastructure programme (CIP) commercial partner on the delivery of both the…
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