The Rail Baltica project has seen contracts for mainline construction in Latvia and Estonia agreed ahead of work starting this year.
Rail Baltica is an 870km high-speed electrified rail line connecting Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, with potential further connections to Finland and Poland. It is the largest infrastructure project in the…
Scottish Power subsidiary SP Transmission has started procurement for £5.4bn of contracts relating to substation and overhead powerline works.
Both frameworks are for an initial period of five years with the potential to extend to 10. The 10 year duration is to align with SP Transmission’s part of the UK’s Pathway…
Dundee Football Club is preparing to submit a Planning Permission in Principle application this month to build a new mixed-use development including a 12,500 capacity stadium.
The Scottish Premier League club has appointed Holmes Miller Architects, which will work in collaboration with local firm LJRH Architects, for the detailed design of…
There were some major appointments at a global level at the likes of WSP, Aecom, Arup and Jacobs during December.
A round up of the biggest moves and appointments during December follows below. To feature on next month’s appointments roundup email robert.hakimian@emap.com. New deputy CEO at WSP UK Paul Reilly has…
While techniques, practices and resources in tunnelling are continually improving, risk will never be eliminated and the ways to manage it must be updated and maintained alongside them.
Tunnelling is one of the most complex and challenging engineering tasks, meaning that the risk is high and the management of risk on…
Sinkholes, abandoned rail links and beavers all feature in New Civil Engineer’s Top 10 most read stories of 2023.
Thank you for reading. Environment Agency investigation continues as drone footage shows extent of HS2 Chiltern Tunnel sinkhole Link: https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/environment-agency-investigation-continues-as-drone-footage-shows-extent-of-hs2-chiltern-tunnel-sinkhole-24-05-2023/ £298M plan drawn up to reinstate abandoned Yorkshire to Lancashire rail link…
Engineers have installed the final pieces of rail track to create a new passing loop on the Hope Valley railway line, which will remove a longstanding bottleneck.
The work, being carried out by a joint venture between VolkerRail and Story Contracting on behalf of Network Rail, has seen 850m of new…
The UK government has set itself an “ambitious” target of growing rail freight by at least 75% by 2050.
The target has been set following Great British Railways Transition Team’s (GBRTT’s) detailed call for evidence with industry leaders, customers and other stakeholders. GBRTT has also recently formed its Strategic Freight Unit…
Contractor Graham has completed the £7.5M upgrade of the A47 Breydon Bridge in Great Yarmouth on behalf of National Highways.
The work was carried out in collaboration with Safety Engineering Standards and AtkinsRéalis. Work started in September 2022 and concluded in 31 October 2023. Work was paused twice, in November 2022…
Track laying for East West Rail’s (EWR’s) first connection stage (CS1) between Bicester and Bletchley is now “99% complete” according to the project promoter East West Rail Co.
The new track construction train working on the project has made its 58th and final visit to CS1, and is now laying the…
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