Another construction milestone has been reached at Hinkley Point C, with the final concrete pours now complete for the nuclear power station's six cooling water tunnel heads.
The head structures - created at the project's offsite manufacturing facility in Avonmouth - will cap the three cooling water tunnels currently being bored…
ScottishPower has submitted a planning application to deliver the UK’s largest electrolyser on the outskirts of Glasgow.
The 20MW electrolyser will be the key component of a green hydrogen facility located close to ScottishPower’s Whitelee windfarm. The planning application also includes proposals for a combined solar (up to 40MW) and battery…
Fugro and MMT have been appointed to undertake the marine site characterisation work for Energinet’s planned Energy Island in the North Sea off the Danish coast.
The ground investigation follows on from an announcement by the Danish Government in February that it had agreed to fund 49% of the £25bn project…
Construction firm Vinci has driven down the carbon emissions from the piling works at the £100M EcoPark South waste project in north London by taking a collaborative approach.
Working with Taylor Woodrow, Vinci and its sister companies Bachy Soletanche, Roger Bullivant and Vibro Menard are delivering the piling and geotechnical work…
MPs on the Environmental Audit Committee have urged government to seize the opportunities presented by tidal energy to deliver on the UK’s electricity needs while address the drive to carbon net zero.
Conclusions that government must engage with the tidal power industry and provide revenue support follow a three month examination…
HS2 Ltd has revealed the shortlist of bidders for its £523M high voltage power supply systems contract.
The winning bidder will go on to deliver electrical systems covering 280km of the UK's new high speed rail link between London, Birmingham and the north of England. Shortlisted bidders include: Colas/Eiffage Joint Venture…
The Welsh Government has revived its plans for the construction of multiple tidal lagoons along its coastline.
Following a drawn out and eventually unsuccessful bid for funding for the Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon, many thought the prospect of tidal energy had been extinguished in the UK. However, the Welsh Government thinks…
The world’s largest floating offshore windfarms could be built along the Welsh coastline, after the Crown Estate announced plans to issue leases for developers to construct turbines in the Celtic Sea.
The leasing process will focus on projects of around 300MW in scale – up to three times larger than any rights previously awarded to floating wind farms in the…
Barhale is making preparations at a north London site to carry out a pioneering operation involving two pipe jacks from a single shaft at the same time.
The contractor developed the solution at the design stage to overcome time constraints on the North London Heat & Power Project energy recovery facility…
One year ago today (March 23), Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that the UK was to move into a full lockdown as the Covid-19 pandemic swept the nation.
With less than 24 hours notice it left contractors the mammoth task of closing down active construction sites as quickly and safely as…
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