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The “unconventional choice” is how Ramboll UK’s new managing director Philippa Spence describes herself when asked about the role she took on in April this year when Mathew Riley stepped down to take on a role at group level within Ramboll. While she may not have an engineering degree, she…

Infrastructure projects will see inevitable delays and rapid cost increases as the fuel crisis rumbles on, a leading transport lawyer has warned.

Eversheds Sutherland head of UK transport Dominic Lacey warned that the longer the fuel crisis goes on the more likely projects will suffer from cost hikes and delays. Lacey…

Contractors are being sort for a multi-purpose £4.2bn construction and engineering framework.

Procurement Hub, part of Preston-based property management and development company Places For People, is looking to establish the four-to-six-year framework. The Major Projects Framework 2 is divided into three lots and applications to provide construction work and services are…

The value and starts in civil engineering work in the UK has shown healthy increase in recent months, although the number of small projects (<£100M) are still in decline according to the latest market analysis from Glenigan.

Start of work on large scale projects including the £3bn Sofia wind farm expansion,…

Industry leaders are keeping a close eye on the UK’s escalating fuel and driver crisis as fears grow over the potential impact on construction.

Fuel pumps are running dry across the country after days of panic buying prompted by a small number of forecourt closures due to lorry driver shortages. Mayor…

Exactly one month before the government is due to deliver the Budget, including its spending review for the next three years, the industry has set out its priorities for investment.

A group of 42 engineering organisations representing more than 450,000 UK engineers have outlined six urgent actions which they claim are…

An £85M contract to deliver the second phase of overhead line works to the West of Scotland has been awarded to Balfour Beatty on behalf of SSEN Transmission.

This is phase two of the scheme, which will see Balfour Beatty designing, constructing and engineering a 45km 275kV double circuit overhead line…

Public sector procurement chiefs have advertised a £30bn framework that could include a huge volume of infrastructure works.

The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) included the civils bounty in the latest iteration of the mammoth ProCure framework, which generally features projects for the health service. While the first three lots of ProCure23…

Transport for London (TfL) is recalculating its Elizabeth line revenue predictions to factor in the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on travel and working patterns.

Previous estimates suggested that TfL has already lost £1bn in revenue due to delays to the Elizabeth line's opening. However, predicted estimates were drawn up before…

HS2 Ltd has revealed its shortlist for enabling works on Phase 2a of the high speed railway.

Six contractors have been named on the Advanced Civil Works contract, a major two-part enabling works contract for a new section of the high speed rail network extending from the West Midlands to Crewe.…