The opening of Transport for London’s (TfL’s) Silvertown Tunnel has been brought forward to early 2025 while work on the cut-and-cover sections and road realignment works have hit full steam.
Documents from the February 28 meeting of TfL’s Programmes and Investments Committee reveal that the permit-to-use date of the 1.4km tunnel…
Transport for London (TfL) expects that all handover and assurance of its £132M Old Street roundabout and station upgrade will be completed by June.
The upgrade, which is being carried out by Morgan Sindall, was initially due to complete in 2020. It has been beset by issues including shutdown from the…
A community interest company (CIC) in Northumberland has leased a section of disused railway to make it an active travel path after the 19th century bridges on the route were prevented from being infilled.
Borderline Greenway CIC has signed a 25-year lease with landowner Northumberland Estates for a 2.9km route that…
Management of the UK’s rail infrastructure and services has moved closer to being unified under the “guiding mind” of Great British Railways (GBR) with the publication of the draft Rail Reform Bill today, 20 February.
Establishment of GBR was an outcome of the Williams-Shapps Plan For Rail, published by the Department…
Ministers from the Scottish National Party (SNP) have slammed the UK government’s infrastructure procurement, saying there is “£100bn overspend in infrastructure projects without even digging too deeply”.
SNP MP for Kilmarnock and Loudon Alan Brown brought the matter of infrastructure procurement to a House of Commons chamber adjournment debate on 19…
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…
Campaigners’ case against the government’s decision to green light the £1.7bn Stonhenge Tunnel has been quashed by a High Court judge.
The £1.7bn A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down upgrade, which includes a 3.3km tunnel beneath the Unesco World Heritage Site as part of the 12.8km dualling project, was granted a development…
A new video has detailed how the 73,000t concrete elements that will form the 18km immersed tube Fehmarnbelt Tunnel will be precisely assembled to mm precision on the seabed between Germany and Denmark.
Once completed in 2029, the Fehmarnbelt Fixed Link between the Danish island of Lolland and the German island…
The construction industry has historically been sorely lacking in opportunities for women, who represent only 13% of the industry and just 1% of tradespeople according to Autodesk’s latest research on the talent challenges facing the sector.
However, this imbalance does show some sign of changing, with three quarters of construction…
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…
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