The Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) has cast doubt over the government's reliance on small modular reactors (SMRs) in the phasing out of fossil fuels from the UK's energy system by 2035.
EAC chair Phillip Dunne has expressed his doubts in an open letter to energy secretary Claire Coutinho following the EAC’s…
SSE Renewables has announced the completion of Dogger Bank A wind farm has been delayed until 2025 due to issues within the supply chain and poor weather conditions.
Dogger Bank A is part of the wider Dogger Bank offshore wind farm project which sits 130km off the Yorkshire coast. The project…
Thurrock Council will discuss whether it should pay nearly half the costs to construct a new train station and transport interchange, even though it is technically bankrupt and the estimated price of the project has nearly tripled.
The original Stanford-Le-Hope station, on the C2C line, was demolished in 2020 and a…
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…
Thames Water will be closing parts of a road in the Hammersmith, London for six weeks to remove an illegally dumped “concreteberg”.
A section of North End Road in Hammersmith will be closed for six weeks, starting Friday, 16 February, as the water company starts work to remove the large build…
Network Rail has begun removing earth after a landslip closed the West Coast Main Line (WCML) between Coventry and Rugby.
From today, Monday 12 February, Network Rail will commence de-vegetation work on one of two tracks near Rugby to allow its engineers to assess the damage. Once the vegetation clearance has…
The leaders of water companies based in the UK will be banned from receiving bonuses if their organisations commit “serious” criminal breaches, under new government legislation.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has made the announcement calling on water company executives “to take responsibility for inexcusable breaches damaging the…
A report compiled by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) details the plethora of reasons infrastructure projects in the UK are often delayed and overbudget, including the clarity of communication between public sector clients and the contractors.
Within the report, released this week, BCG presents its studies of massive UK projects such…
Network Rail is gearing up to conduct a £1.6M investment programme to extend the lifespan of a 19th century viaduct in the Scottish Highlands.
Rannoch viaduct, just north of Rannoch station, carries a section of the West Highland Line between Crianlarich and Fort William/Mallaig and was built in 1894. The viaduct…
The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has served an improvement notice on EDF Energy after an employee was injured in an incident at Dungeness B power station.
An employee suffered an electric shock from a portable heater while undertaking maintenance work at the Kent site on 5 November 2023, suffering injuries…
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