Thomas Telford Limited (TTL), the commercial arm of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), has sold the ICE Publishing portfolio to Emerald Publishing.
Bingley-headquartered Emerald Publishing is part of investment firm Cambridge Information Group and publishing services to researchers in various forms including journals, books, teaching cases as well as open…
Prime minister Rishi Sunak agreed to increase government spending into a government infrastructure investment programme at G7, to the tune of £32bn over the next five years.
Sunak made the promise in Hiroshima, Japan over the weekend at the G7 sunmmit, redoubling the UK’s previous offering, £8bn a year up to…
A local council has posted a £220,000 tender looking for a contractor to complete a Strategic Outline Business Case (SOBC) for a relief road in Cambridgeshire.
Fenland District Council is looking for a contractor to further develop the Whittlesey Relief Road project by completing a SOBC to the Department for Transport…
The government has overruled two rejections from Solihull Council to stop High Speed 2 (HS2) construction lorries from driving on village roads for the Balsall Common Viaduct works.
Solihull Council has twice rejected the application, made by HS2 contractor Balfour Beatty Vinci (BBV), which asked for permission for construction vehicles to…
Main Point The photograph (above) used to illustrate the news story “Sunak axes all future smart motorway projects” (NCE, last month) fortuitously also illustrates the reason that all lane running smart motorways are unsafe. It shows vehicle barriers on both verges set unnecessarily close to the running lane, leaving insufficient space…
National Highways could be ordered to remove over 1,000t of infill from beneath an historic bridge in Norfolk if its retrospective planning application for the work is denied.
Believed to have been constructed in 1923, the St Andrew’s Lane Bridge at Congham, Norfolk carries an unclassified public road (St Andrew’s Lane)…
National Highways has pledged to start construction of a £950M Cambridgeshire dual carriageway project this year after a legal challenge to the work was halted last week.
The client body said the A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet improvements, to be delivered by Skanska, would "transform the region" after the Court…
Transport Scotland is set to confirm the preferred scheme to remedy a landslip-prone section of the A83 road in the western Scottish Highlands “in the coming weeks”.
Transport Scotland director major projects Lawrence Shackman told NCE that details of the selected long term solution for the Rest and Be Thankful section…
Solar panels could be erected on road-noise barriers as part of a drive to maximise the green benefits of England's strategic road network, according to new documents released today.
National Highways has set out a range of measures under consideration as part of its newly published environmental sustainability strategy, which it…
The Department for Transport (DfT) has not yet calculated the cost and time savings to back up the decision to delay major road schemes including Lower Thames Crossing by several years a Freedom of Information (FoI) request by NCE has revealed.
In a written ministerial statement on 9 March, transport secretary…
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