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Preparations for laying 19.5km Essex pipeline enter final stage

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Engineers will commence work to lay Essex’s new 19.5km water pipeline in February.

Essex & Suffolk Water’s £20M pipeline will run between Layer-de-la-Haye and Langford and is designed to help make water supplies to 1.5M customers in those areas more resilient. It will do this by enabling water to be efficiently…

Plans for world first subsea power hub for floating wind turbines revealed

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A subsea power hub for floating wind turbines is being piloted by Norwegian headquartered engineering firm Aker Solutions as part of the Marine Energy Test Centre (METCentre) in Norway.

Aker Solutions will provide power transmission technology, which it calls the “Subsea Collector”, for the METCentre test area consisting of two floating…

£250M funding package for A66 Darlington relief road to go to vote

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The Tees Valley Combined Authority (TVCA) will reportedly vote on whether to provide a £250M funding package for the planned A66 Darlington relief road.

The long-planned Darlington Northern Link road first started life as the Darlington Northern bypass, a scheme to link the A1(M) at Junction 59, Coatham Mundeville, to a…

Snowy 2.0 hits milestone with breakthrough on key subterranean cavern

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Breakthrough has been made on the last 3m of Australia’s Snowy 2.0 pumped-hydro scheme’s transformer hall cavern ‘crown’ or ceiling.

When completed, the 223m long, 46m high transformer hall and 251m long, 52m high machine hall will jointly form one of the largest and deepest caverns in the world, big enough…

Contractor wanted for highway infrastructure improvements on A379 near Exeter

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Devon County Council is seeking a contractor to improve highway infrastructure on the A379 near Exeter in a £12.5M contract.

The works are described as construction of essential highway infrastructure on a strategic transport corridor enabling residential development to the south west of Exeter. Devon County Council explains: “The existing Chudleigh…