Contractor Graham has completed the £7.5M upgrade of the A47 Breydon Bridge in Great Yarmouth on behalf of National Highways.
The work was carried out in collaboration with Safety Engineering Standards and AtkinsRéalis. Work started in September 2022 and concluded in 31 October 2023. Work was paused twice, in November 2022…
It’s rare in the rail industry to see more women than men in a room, but that was overwhelmingly the case when Inspire - Network Rail’s gender equality network - held its 10-year anniversary conference in Birmingham on 6 December.
More than 130 people gathered to celebrate a decade of…
AtkinsRéalis has been appointed as a delivery partner for a mining project to extract iron ore from the world’s largest untapped high-grade mine located in the Republic of Guinea.
Rio Tinto, the second largest mining corporation in the world, has contracted AtkinsRéalis to provide project and construction management for the Simandou…
The government has reaffirmed its support for a new £48M road on the A39 to bypass the village of Camelford in Cornwall.
Roads minister Guy Opperman met with local Cornish MPs to make the government’s pledge of support for the Camelford Bypass scheme, which was included in Sunak’s Network North plan.…
Engineering services firm Ayesa has been appointed as lead consultant to progress the tendering and detailed design and construction of the €57M (£49M) Arklow Flood Relief Scheme in County Wicklow, Ireland.
The project aims to mitigate recurring flooding challenges in Arklow, a town with a population of almost 14,000. It involves…
The two tunnel boring machines (TBMs) digging HS2's Chiltern tunnels have reached the Chesham Road intervention shaft, on track to complete their 16km journey under the Chilterns next year.
The 2,000t machines, named Florence and Cecilia, are now 90% of the way through their two-and-a-half-year drive between the M25 and South…
National Grid has brought forward its £90M plan to upgrade 82km of overhead power line between Bramley in Hampshire and Melksham in Wiltshire by a year.
The utility company is fast tracking this project in an attempt to address a bottleneck in connecting low carbon projects to the electricity network in…
HS2's precast tunnel segments are being transported via railway from Hartlepool to London for use in the 5.4km Northolt Tunnel East.
The pre-cast concrete segments are being delivered by rail to minimise road traffic and reduce carbon emissions. Strabag, the company manufacturing the segments for HS2’s next London tunnel drives, opened…
A consortium led by Eiffage has won a €2.54bn (£2.2bn) contract to design and build a section of Line 15 East of the Grand Paris Express.
Société du Grand Paris’ overall €35.6bn (£28bn) Grand Paris Express project will see 200km of new metro line to its public transport network. The…
In December 2023, the National Audit Office (NAO) warned that extreme weather resilience must be front of mind for governments, engineering service providers, city planners and more.
Whilst the UK has response plans for weather events such as surface-level flooding and high temperatures, the country is still on the back…
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