The Office of Rail and Road is looking to appoint a consultancy to lead a new study into Highways England and its supply chain.
The study will follow on from a previous study which looked at whether the Highways England supply chain had the capability and capacity to deliver the current…
A construction tender for a 9.5km section of the A9 between Luncarty and Birnam in Scotland has been announced in a prior information notice, with work on the £100M scheme expected to start by the end of this year.
An official notice of the upcoming tender will follow in the next few weeks…
A sunken motorway scheme is one of 22 alternatives to the proposed M4 relief road that is being considered by a public inquiry in Wales.
The five-month inquiry kicked off yesterday with Inspector Bill Wadrup saying that one plan includes sinking the motorway via a tunnel. The enquiry is to look…
Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) is to buy 200 Tesla hybrid electric vehicles fitted with autonomous driving technologies.
It said that the new vehicles would add to the Dubai Taxi Corporation’s limousine fleet. The new all-electric model S sedans and Model X SUVs will all have energy generation and storage…
Bosses of the UK’s biggest clients are lining up to speak at the new UK Transport event to share their passion for and insight into infrastructure investment.
Leaders of Network Rail, Highways England, Heathrow Airport, Crossrail 2, Transport for West Midlands and High Speed 2 are already confirmed for the new…
Highways England has published two options for fully dualling a congestion-prone section of the A303 in Somerset.
More than 26,000 vehicles per day use the 11km long stretch of road between Sparkford and Ilchester, double the volume it was designed for. The upgrade will turn the part single, part dual carriageway…
Highways England has appointed Tim Jones as project director for the new £4bn Lower Thames Crossing tunnnel scheme.
Jones’ appointment comes at a critical time for the project as the government seeks pilot projects to be delivered via its new private finance mechanism – labelled PF2. In May he will leave…
Highways engineering firms must do more to change the demographic of their work forces if they are to remain capable of delivering the infrastructure society needs, a leading client has warned.
Technology-led solutions are increasingly required and the current culture of the industry is ill-equipped to deliver them, Transport for London…
“High quality infrastructure drives economic growth, boosts productivity and raises living standards.”
“That is why we placed infrastructure at the heart of the Autumn Statement.” That is chief secretary to the Treasury David Gauke’s opening sentence in the introduction to an analysis published alongside the government’s National Infrastructure and Construction Pipeline…
Devolution: so what’s actually happening across the UK?
The May government’s “modern industrial strategy”, published in January, has placed infrastructure at the heart of Britain’s drive to increase its global competitiveness. Alongside the government’s plans to increase the nation’s science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) skills and tackle barriers to innovation,…
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