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North Yorkshire Council has started the hunt for suppliers to join its £300M highways surfacing and planing framework.

The carriageway planing and surfacing framework 2024 aims to deliver a range of work packages on the highways, including but not limited to recycling, patching, overlays, reconstruction and resurfacing on behalf of North…

The £8.5M government backed Centre of Excellence for Decarbonising Roads has called for innovators to come forward with low-carbon materials and designs for local roads.

The Centre For Excellence has been born out of the Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning and Transport’s (Adept’s) Live Labs 2 initiative, which is…

Plans are in place for a £360M investment for improvements and major projects on Lincolnshire’s highways, while Balfour Beatty has signed a new £330M highways maintenance contract with the county council.

In addition to the standard maintenance and repairs carried out by Lincolnshire County Council each year, a total of £360M…

National Highways has reported that its A595 improvements is moving into its final phase, but the project's budget has increased from £16M to £21.4M.

The second phase of the road improvement scheme began in May and included a new merge lane on the southbound exit of Howgate roundabout and full carriageway…

The City of Wolverhampton Council has put out a call to contractors to bid for a place on a £20M framework for highways structure repairs across the West Midlands.

In partnership with the West Midlands Collaborative, Wolverhampton’s tender will cover structure repairs on highways for Coventry City Council and the Metropolitan…

A 55m-long footbridge, weighing 68t, has been lowered into place over the A5 at Mile End in Oswestry, Shropshire.

The bridge was installed by a 1,000t crane. Led by Beaver Bridges, the work was carried out overnight on Monday (27 November). The bridge has been designed to accommodate both cyclists…

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…

Use of artificial intelligence (AI), implementation of modern methods of construction (MMC) and a comprehensive pipeline of work should be “business as usual” in infrastructure delivery by 2025, according to the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA).

These business as usual expectations were the main theme in the IPA’s latest Transforming Infrastructure…

Transport Scotland has revealed the shortlist of contractors for the long-awaited A9 Dualling: Tomatin to Moy project.

Procurement for the project, to upgrade 9.6km of the A9 to dual carriageway, began in March 2021, but was scrapped after only one bid was received from three shortlisted contractors and re-started earlier this…

Graham has been awarded an £86.9M contract for the A164 and Jock’s Lodge Improvement Scheme in East Yorkshire.

The project, approved by the Department for Transport (DfT) earlier this month, will see the contractor replace the Jock’s Lodge junction on the outskirts of Beverley – which links the A164 Hull to…