Network Rail has announced that two homes in West Yorkshire will have to be demolished following a landslip in West Yorkshire that occurred in February.
This will enable the rail infrastructure operator to complete the works required to stabilise the embankment. Engineers have been on site at Baildon, near Bradford, since…
One in every 25 (4%) council maintained road bridges in the UK has been deemed as substandard, the RAC Foundation has revealed.
All the councils located within England, Scotland and Wales are responsible for 73,208 road bridges and the RAC foundation discovered that 2,928 are considered substandard through freedom of information…
Network Rail has announced the winners of its nearly £2bn capital works delivery frameworks for Control Period 7 (CP7), 2024 to 2029, covering the North West and Central (NW&C) region of its network.
These frameworks are divided into numerous categories, A, B, C and D, with a number of big name…
London’s new £4.5bn super sewer, Thames Tideway, has completed all construction with the lifting of a 1,200t concrete lid to cap off the project’s deepest shaft.
The lifting of the 24m-wide lid at Abbey Mills Pumping Station marks the full completion of heavy civil engineering works for the project. Now this…
Construction of Northumberian Water’s new £155M, 57km water mains through the north east of England is gathering pace with the announcement of a road closure for pipelaying works to be conducted.
Working on behalf of Northumbrian Water, contractor Farrans started constructing the Project Pipeline: County Durham and Tees Valley, in November…
Eight construction firms have been appointed to the Scottish government’s upcoming £600M civil engineering framework.
The Scottish government has worked with industry on the development of a national framework for civil engineering for the nation It is a multi-lot, multi-supplier framework for a four year period where civil engineering contracts with…
Kent County Council has appointed VolkerFitzpatrick to design and build a new £34M road viaduct over a rail line and river in Canterbury.
The Sturry Link Road project will see the firm construct a 550m long road including a 250m long viaduct over the Great Stour River, the river’s flood plain…
A £30M project to construct a research facility looking into sustainable solutions for the UK’s water infrastructure has been completed by Aecom and Morgan Sindall.
The Aecom-led project, with Morgan Sindall handling construction, has seen the completion of the Centre for Resilience in Environment, Water and Waste (Creww) at University of…
UK Power Networks has partnered with Barhale to build a micro-tunnel under the Grand Union Canal in West London to deliver power for High Speed 2 (HS2) tunnel boring machines (TBMs).
The tunnel will be used to carry power cables for HS2’s TBMs that are set to build the high-speed rail…
Network Rail is investing more than £20M to rebuild a major railway bridge that takes trains over the M62 in Castleton, near Rochdale.
The 42m long, 2,000t bridge, known as Castleton bridge, carries 6% of the UK’s energy supply across the country as freight trains carry material to and from Drax…
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