The Environment Agency has launched a £30M programme to reduce flood risk and boost biodiversity on the River Tees estuary.
The Tees Estuary has been heavily modified by human hand in the last 200 years as it transformed into a hub of industrial activity. While vital for jobs and the economy,…
The West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) has bought forward plans to open a section of the eastside Midlands Metro extension by constructing a temporary terminus to be used until the permanent station is built.
The new plans will see a further £18M added to the £227M budget to complete the terminus,…
Engineers on High Speed 2 (HS2) have revealed innovations that utilise on-machine technologies to improve earthmoving processes and allow real-time digital concrete testing during transportation.
The efficient earthmoving technology has been utilised in a partnership between HS2 main contractor EKFB (Eiffage, Kier, Ferrovial, Bam) and equipment supplier Finning and has reportedly…
Network Rail has alerted contractors that it is looking to procure for a reactive and minor works framework in the Wales and Western region worth £750M.
The Reactive and Minor Works (RMW) framework is split into four lots covering buildings and civils works across the five years of Control Period 7…
Writing in New Civil Engineer in August, I made the case for why we need to keep infrastructure apart from politics – lifting it up above political cycles to reduce uncertainty and better enable successful delivery and positive outcomes for society.
Since August, events have served only to strengthen this…
A Paris-based cable manufacturer has been selected by SSEN Transmission to supply and install approximately 100km of high voltage (HV) cable needed for the Orkney islands to Scotland mainland transmission link.
Nexans has been appointed to supply and install the 220kV alternating current subsea and land cables that will provide a…
National Highways’ safety upgrades scheme on the M40/M42 interchange in the West Midlands is set to complete months earlier than expected thanks to the use of precast concrete barriers.
The scheme, being carried out by bmJV (Bam Nuttall and Morgan Sindall), includes replacing almost 9km of steel central reservation barrier with…
Contractors have been invited to tender for a £100M civils framework for works on the trunk road and county areas in North and mid-Wales.
Gwynedd Council has launched the framework, which is for works across five Welsh local authority areas: Gwynedd, Conwy and Denbighshire, Flintshire and Wrexham, West Wales and the…
Residents around the paused High Speed 2 (HS2) London Euston work site are “frustrated and angry” while complaints about construction remain high across the whole of Phase One, according to the independent construction commissioner.
In his latest quarterly report into the construction of the high-speed rail line, HS2 independent construction commissioner…
Network Rail has commenced “detailed tests” to uncover the issue behind the discolouration of water in the Whitehaven harbour and the rail tunnel that runs beneath it.
The tunnel sits on the Cumbrian Coast line and takes trains 1km underground between Corkickle and Whitehaven. It has been known to flood and…
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