An electric train has travelled for the first time between Manchester Victoria and Stalybridge, as part of the Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU), Network Rail has announced.
Engineers have been testing the new electrification equipment installed along the route as part of the multi-billion-pound upgrade to the line between Manchester and York,…
Turner & Townsend has been appointed to Tata Group’s £4bn battery manufacturing plant in Somerset.
The consultant will deliver cost management services, project management for enabling works and design team procurement. Production at the gigafactory, situated close to Bridgwater, is set to start in 2026, with the batteries supplying Jaguar Land…
More than 5,000 tonnes of material slipped beneath a 50-metre section of the railway last Friday (March 8) after persistent heavy rainfall over the winter had weakened the earthwork beneath. Engineers from Network Rail and Murphy have been working around the clock since, in a bid to clear the site…
A Skanska-led joint venture has been appointed to upgrade a terminal at the Port of Virginia.
The Swedish multinational will partner the US-firm McLean Contracting Company on the project to revitalise the Norfolk International Terminal North Wharf, on an $85M (£66.6M) contact. The work will involve the demolition of existing marine…
The head of a House of Lords committee has warned that the government’s energy plans still risk energy security and net-zero ambitions because they lack investment in energy storage technology.
Baroness Brown of Cambridge, Julia King, who is chair of the Science and Technology Committee, warned that Whitehall needs to act…
Powerlines needed to drive the UK’s transition to net zero carbon will have to be built in unpopular places, but the government hopes it can minimise the disruption, a minister has said.
Jerome Mayhew, MP for Broadland in Norfolk, is a campaigner against a new pylon route through his county to…
The trade body for steel producers has warned that government reforms to energy pricing could hit plans to transition to green steel production.
A second consultation on the Review of Electricity Market Arrangements (REMA), unveiled this week alongside the commitment to support building new gas power stations, favours a locational marginal…
Industry figures have called for certainty and warned against further cuts to infrastructure spending, ahead of chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget on Wednesday.
Civil Engineering Contractors Association chief executive Alasdair Reisner was among those concerned about the possibility of spending cuts, as reported in some national newspapers in recent days. “In…
A judicial review hearing that will determine the future of Birmingham City Council’s £2.7bn highways provision is set to take place within weeks.
Last year Kier was named preferred bidder on a new version of Birmingham’s private finance initiative (PFI) roads maintenance contract, which had been restructured following the collapse of…
The cost of delivering Norfolk County Council’s Norwich Western Link project has jumped by almost £23M, but central government could cover the shortfall.
The scheme, which will see a new 6.2km dual carriageway built to the west of the city, had its outline business case approved by the Department for Transport…
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