Transport secretary Chris Grayling has announced an additional consultation period for the government’s draft Airports National Policy Statement (NPS).
The original consultation on the airport’s third runway plans finished at the end of May, but now Grayling says further work is needed to take into account revised aviation demand forecasts and the government’s final air…
Last week, the national media was buzzing with rumours about Labour’s lack of commitment to Heathrow expansion. Senior Labour sources told the Financial Times that MPs were “almost certain” to oppose the third runway in a Commons vote, now due in the first half of next year.
Air quality was cited…
Construction of the £80M, three storey extension to Edinburgh airport’s terminal building has begun.
The new building will stretch from the existing gate 12 to cover the old east end service yard out to the Gogar Burn, a water course to the south of the airport. The extension is part of…
Five firms have been chosen to deliver structural and civil engineering works on Gatwick Airport’s £1bn transformation plan.
Amey, Jacobs, Ramboll, RPS and WSP won places on the low complexity structures and civils lot of the Sussex airport’s five-year consultancy framework. Gatwick last week revealed plans to spend £1.15bn over five…
Laing O’Rourke has signed the main contract on a £1bn expansion of Manchester Airport’s Terminal 2 as Galliford Try announced its own £38M contract on the project.
Over the next four years Laing O’Rourke will be responsible for the design and construction of the Terminal 2 extension, involving the terminal’s extension…
Gatwick Airport says its scheme for a second runway “remains on the table” as it unveils its £1.15bn five year investment plan.
The 2017 Capital Investment Programme (CIP) launched yesterday sets out projects including reconfiguring stands to facilitate a changing aircraft mix, building a new hangar in partnership with Boeing and adding…
A major hotel group has teamed up with Bechtel to produce alternative Heathrow expansion plans, which it says could be £6.7bn cheaper than Heathrow’s own proposals.
The Arora Group, a leading chain which owns more than 57 properties at Heathrow Airport, commissioned Bechtel and other infrastructure experts to carry out a…
Early concept designs for a new rail station at Doncaster Sheffield Airport have been released, along with plans for a rail link feasibility study to be carried out by the end of the year.
Doncaster Sheffield Airport, previously known as Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield, released the concept designs for a…
Bechtel has landed a key role in the £370M expansion of London City Airport. Peter Adams, Highways England’s executive director for major projects and capital portfolio management, is also leaving the roads body at the end of August to join the airport.
The San Francisco headquartered engineering giant Bechtel has been named as…
Heathrow Airport has revealed plans for a series of viaducts to cross the M25, one of which would be the third runway.
The widest of three parallel viaducts bridging the motorway would act as the runway, while two narrower viaducts would function as taxiways for planes. Expansion programme director Phil Wilbraham…
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