The Irish government will provide €800M (£685M) funding for all-Ireland priorities, including a major new road, a bridge, train services and the redevelopment of Casement Park stadium.
The “unprecedented” investment package has been sparked by the return of the power sharing Executive to Westminster. The main bulk of this investment will…
High Speed 2 (HS2) engineers have successfully moved an 84m, 300t steel viaduct section into place over the motorway network in north Warwickshire.
Victor Buyck Steel Construction (VBSC), working on behalf of HS2 main works contractor Balfour Beatty Vinci (BBV), utilised a “push pull” jacking system to manoeuvre the section into…
Flying drones beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) of the operator to benefit infrastructure inspections could become legal under new proposals from the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).
The CAA's proposal would be critical in infrastructure inspection as it would allow visual access to hard-to-reach locations with much lower safety risk. Industries…
Transport for London (TfL) has appointed Costain to carry out refurbishment works on Gallows Corner Flyover and Brent Cross Interchange.
The infrastructure solutions company will carry out both detailed design and then the delivery of refurbishment works for Gallows Corner Flyover. This complex structure joins the A127 to the A12 above…
Construction of the 1.15km rail bridge across the Daugava River in Riga, Latvia as part of the Rail Baltica project has commenced.
Rail Baltica is the 870km high speed railway that will connect the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The £5bn (in 2017 prices) project is ramping up to…
An $18M (£14M) contract has been awarded to give a Californian road bridge built in 1922 a seismic retrofit.
The one-lane Wohler Road Bridge traverses over the Russian River 16km northwest of Santa Rosa city in Sonoma County. It will now receive a new lightweight concrete deck, seismic isolation bearings and…
High Speed 2 (HS2) contractors have successfully demolished a 4,000t bridge over the M42 to make way for a new twin box structure to carry the new high-speed line across the motorway.
Demolition experts from Solihull-based firm Armac removed a bridge across the motorway near the Interchange Station construction site in…
National Highways has revealed that it spent £352,000 removing the unwanted infill from beneath the Great Musgrave bridge in Cumbria – almost triple what it cost to install.
The infilling of the 8.4m single span masonry arch bridge with around 1,000t of concrete was carried out by between May and July…
Plans for a 12km long, $1.3bn (£1bn) sea bridge in the Brazilian state of Bahia have taken a step forward with drilling work starting on land to examine ground conditions along the route.
Intended to create a valuable economic link between Itaparica island and the city of Salvador, the new bridge…
London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham (LBHF) has blamed the Department for Transport (DfT) for delays to fixing the Hammersmith Bridge and is temporarily opening a two-way central cycleway.
The crucial central London bridge has been closed to road traffic for five years. It is currently undergoing stabilisation works which has…
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