The Eastville Viaduct in Bristol needs “extensive repairs” and additional works to ensure its longevity that could see costs balloon to over £200M - almost tenfold the original estimate of £22.6M.
The 1.1km concrete road bridge, which dates to the 1970s, carries traffic over Junction 2 of the M32 and connects…
John Sisk & Son (Sisk) has been appointed to remove a road bridge as well as conduct other highways works in a £7.8M contract as part of the York Station Gateway project.
The scheme will see Sisk remove Queen Street bridge, realign Queen Street, construct a new public realm known as…
A project to move a 500m section of coastal road in South Tyneside 24m away from the clifftops has been completed by Howard Civil Engineering.
Howard completed the £1.3M job in nine months. This saw the stretch of A183 Coast Road between Marsden and Whitburn moved inland to allow the adjacent…
Transport Scotland has restarted its search for a contractor to construct the long-awaited dualling of the A9 between Tomatin and Moy in a contract worth £150M.
The dualling of 128km of the A9 from Inverness to Perth is a £3bn project divided into 11 sections. The 7.5km Kincraig to Dalraddy section…
Devon County Council (DCC) has appointed technology company Previsico to trial connected water and silt level sensors along a subset of Devon’s highway gullies.
Known as the Devon Resilience Innovation Project (Drip) Smart Gullies Trial, the project’s purpose is to mitigate floods on major roads. During heavy rainfall, low lying routes…
Financial data analysed by NCE has revealed that in the 12 months to the end of May the Department for Transport (DfT) spent £567M on overdue schemes from Road Investment Strategy 1 (RIS1), 2015-2020.
Further analysis revealed that the government spent over £140M more on RIS1 schemes than RIS2 (2020-2025) projects…
The deadline on whether to grant a development consent order (DCO) for the A1 Northumberland upgrade has been delayed a fourth time to 5 June 2024, two years and eight months after the government received the planning authority’s report.
National Highways’ DCO for the A1 Morpeth to Ellingham dualling scheme in…
Opponents to the A303 Stonehenge tunnel project will today present a petition with 225,000 signatures from 147 countries to Unesco in Paris calling on the government to halt the project and for clarification from Unesco about what the project might mean for the site's World Heritage Site (WHS) status.
Presentation of…
Highways chiefs in the North East have urged councillors to approve changes to a £200M link road project awarded to Balfour Beatty well over a year ago.
An internal report to the executive of Lincolnshire County Council recommended approval of a new route for the long-proposed North Hykeham Relief Road. Also…
A major Cornwall route will close for a full weekend later this month as National Highways creates a wildlife-friendly bridge over the road.
The new “green bridge” is being constructed over the Marazanvose section of the new A30 dual carriageway in Cornwall. It will feature plants and hedges designed to help…
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