City of Doncaster Council is surging ahead with its plan to reopen Doncaster Sheffield Airport (DSA) by launching procurement for a company to bring it back into operation.
DSA was closed in November 2022 after its owner Peel Group said it was no longer commercially viable. Doncaster Council rejected this idea…
National Infrastructure Commission chair Sir John Armitt, Manchester mayor Andy Burnham, former chancellor George Osborne and former HS2 Ltd chairmen are among the cacophony of voices reacting negatively to reports that the government is to scrap or significantly delay the construction of High Speed 2 (HS2) north of Birmingham.
Reports that…
Westminster City Council is looking to engage suppliers on its £600M highways maintenance contracts.
The council has released a prior information notice to initiate market engagement exercise for the procurement of services providers to assist it with the delivery of highways related services. At this stage Westminster is aiming to assess…
The government and Environment Agency will invest £25M in projects that use natural solutions to protect communities from flooding.
The ring-fenced funding will be used to support schemes across England that use natural flood management techniques such as planting trees and creating wetlands to slow and store water to reduce the…
The inaugural NCE Awards was held last night, 20 September, at the JW Marriott Grosvenor House in London, with gongs being awarded to industry leaders in culture, business and service.
The NCE Awards was established to celebrate the best of the best in civil engineering consultancies in the UK and recognises…
National Highways has seen increases in both corporate emissions and emissions from construction and maintenance in the last year, despite claims of “huge strides” towards net zero.
National Highways has committed to achieving net zero corporate emissions by 2030, net zero maintenance and construction emissions by 2040 and net zero road…
A statutory inquiry into the long delayed and hugely overbudget Edinburgh Tram project has revealed extensive mistakes and mismanagement by Transport Initiatives Edinburgh (Tie), the delivery company set up and wholly owned by City of Edinburgh Council (CEC).
The Edinburgh Tram project was intended to be a new 18.5km light rail…
A section of Botley Road beneath a railway bridge next to Oxford station will remain closed until October 2024 due to “unique challenges” in the £161M station works, Network Rail has confirmed.
The road had been due to reopen next month after completing the diversion of 11 different utility services. It…
The UK government has commenced the process of finding private investors to help fund the construction of Sizewell C nuclear power plant.
Energy security secretary Claire Coutinho officially opened up applications for interested partners to register their interest in being part of the project on Monday, 18 September. The government, Sizewell…
The Coal Authority has alerted contractors that it is looking to form a £100M framework to deliver mine water treatment schemes at over 70 facilities across England, Scotland and Wales.
The framework is being set up by the Coal Authority in partnership with the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero,…
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