The future of the Garden Bridge hangs in the balance after a damning report suggested the project should be scrapped as it is poor value for money.
Dame Margaret Hodge’s report, published today, found that the risk to taxpayers had risen drastically after costs escalated from an initial £60M to £200M,…
Canadian engineering company SNC-Lavalin has made a play for one of the UK’s last remaining independently owned engineering consultancies but what is it, what does it have to offer Atkins and how likely is a deal?
SNC-Lavalin is relatively unknown in the UK, but employs around 35,000 around the world and…
Engineers would not have designed a collapsed US bridge to withstand fire damage, according to a leading bridge consultant.
A bridge on the I-85 highway in Atlanta, Georgia, collapsed after a fire broke out on Thursday afternoon following a suspected arson attack. It spread from an area used to store construction…
Bad weather has delayed the opening date for Scotland’s Queensferry Crossing by up to 10 weeks.
Forth Crossing Bridge Constructors (FCBC) said there had been fewer windows of clear weather than expected and high winds have delayed activities, so that work is now bunched up at the end of the programme. The…
Engineers have manoeuvred the 4,750t New Wear Crossing bridge deck into place during a 20-hour operation.
Sliding the 300m steel and concrete deck into position means it is now in its final location over the River Wear in Sunderland. The first section of the bridge deck was launched in October last…
Work to remodel the transport layout on Westminster Bridge in London have been postponed pending a security review after the terrorist attack there last week.
Last Wednesday a terrorist drove at high speed across Westminster Bridge, ploughing into pedestrians and killing three, before crashing into railings. Kier had been due to…
Kier is to start a programme of work to introduce segregated cycle lanes and a remodelled junction on the 155-year-old Westminster Bridge in London .
The work will also improve links with the East-West Cycle Superhighway and the Central London Cycling Grid and upgrade pedestrian crossings. A new 20mph speed limit will…
A world-first modular glass fibre reinforced plastic bridge has been unveiled.
Designed by Arup, and part-funded by the Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB), the first bridge has been installed in Oxford for Network Rail. The bridge is a safer alternative to level crossings where a traditional pedestrian bridge cannot be…
More than 3,000 council-maintained road bridges in Great Britain are “substandard” according to new research by the RAC Foundation.
Analysis of data received from 199 of the 207 local highway authorities in the UK shows that 3,203 structures over 1.5m in span were unfit to carry the heaviest vehicles, including lorries…
A road bridge in Italy has collapsed onto a live motorway during a lifting operation, killing two people.
Autostrade, Italy’s highways authority, said that an overpass had collapsed onto a section of the A14 Bologna to Taranto bridge between Loreto and Ancona South due to “a failure of temporary structure of support…
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