Author Archives: Thomas Johnson

The Welsh government has announced the new flood and coastal defence schemes it will invest £34M into over the coming financial year (2024-25).

As well as this, the Welsh government has announced it is matching last year’s funding for Risk Management Authorities with a further £75M. The Flood and Coastal Erosion…

A new rail link between Handsacre and Manchester Airport has been identified by the Greater Manchester and West Midlands mayors as their preferred option to replace High Speed 2 (HS2) Phase 2.

The fate of Phase 2 of the UK’s flagship infrastructure project was made official on 4 October when prime…

The importance of constantly reviewing a major project’s delivery model has been highlighted as a key takeaway from the £19bn Crossrail project in a new independent report commissioned by government.

Attributed jointly to the Department for Transport (DfT) and the Infrastructure Projects Authority (IPA), Sponsoring a Major Project: The Crossrail Experience…

Transport Scotland has handed out a £1.6M ground investigations contract for its planned £32M A83 Old Military Road upgrade to Soil Engineering Geoservices.

As the first phase of the medium term works to improve the resilience of the road, which is used when the A83 Rest and Be Thankful is closed,…

Eastern Green Link 1 (EGL1) will be the first project to proceed under a new Ofgem fast track process and will receive a provisional £2bn funding package.

National Grid’s project will construct a subsea energy “superhighway”, in the form of a 2GW high voltage direct current (HVDC) subsea transmission cable, from…

The Infrastructure Projects Authority (IPA) has published a framework that outlines how the government can harness the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to tackle public project delivery issues.

The guidance, Data Analytics and AI in Government Project Delivery, encourages responsible experimentation with AI to find solutions to the biggest challenges that…

Load-bearing structures can be made with origami modules, a University of Michigan research project has revealed.

Engineers from the university have now demonstrated how structures such as bridges and buildings can be constructed using versatile components folded compactly and adapted into different shapes, with consistency of thickness being the key takeaway…

National Grid innovations to improve cable health monitoring, decarbonise rural communities and utilise electric plant in streetworks have won nearly £400,000 funding from the latest stage of the Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF).

These funds will allow the projects to progress to feasibility studies as part of SIF’s discovery phase aimed…

Transport for London (TfL) has alerted contractors to an upcoming contract for the upgrade of the infrastructure and depot associated with the entirety of the Bakerloo line.

TfL is in the process of upgrading the Bakerloo line fleet, which is now the oldest rolling stock operating in the UK. Continuing to…

Bam is gearing up to begin work on its redevelopment of Eaglescliffe station in the Tees Valley as a new CGI of how the station will look when completed has been released.

Contractor Bam, working on behalf of the Tees Valley Combined Authority, will get to work on  site in the…