The Canal and River Trust has appointed Arcadis, RSK and Geotechnical Engineering to provide technical expertise on maintaining its assets amidst the “growing challenge of climate change-driven storms and floods”.
The Canal and River Trust said it has put in place long-term framework contracts allowing it to call upon these companies…
New Environment Agency data showing a significant increase in sewage spills in England during 2023 has been variously described as “unacceptable”, “squalid”, “outrageous” and “a shitshow”.
The Environment Agency’s newly published event duration monitoring (EDM) data for 2023 shows a 54% increase in the number of sewage spills in England compared…
A new rail link between Handsacre and Manchester Airport has been identified by the Greater Manchester and West Midlands mayors as their preferred option to replace High Speed 2 (HS2) Phase 2.
The fate of Phase 2 of the UK’s flagship infrastructure project was made official on 4 October when prime…
Engineers from EKFB (Eiffage Kier Ferrovial Bam JV) have commenced the sliding of the first section of the 320m double composite deck for High Speed 2’s (HS2’s) Westbury viaduct into position.
It is one of five viaducts on the HS2 route through Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire where embodied carbon has been…
Arcadis, Jacobs Mott MacDonald JV and Turner & Townsend have been appointed to Thames Water’s £160M Programme Partner Framework.
The three lead entities on the framework will support the utility company in the delivery of its Strategic Resource Options (SRO) programme. Thames Water named three big name joint ventures as technical…
A key member of the newly formed project team set to build the $16bn (£13bn) Hudson Tunnel Project has said how early designs and plans for the scheme are taking learnings from similar tunnelling projects that have taken place in London and the UK.
The two tunnels will be used by…
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt promised investments in advancing the UK's net zero efforts with nuclear and green energy in today's Spring Budget but future funding for transport and other vital infrastructure went amiss.
While the industry is pleased to hear investment is being made in aiding the decarbonisation of the UK’s grid…
The government has been warned not to carry over the surplus of greenhouse gas emissions reductions from the third carbon budget.
In its formally mandated advice to government due to the surplus of emissions savings accrued during the 2018-2022 carbon budget, the Climate Change Committee has said that an “ambitious path”…
A joint venture consisting of Mace, Parsons and Arcadis has been selected as the delivery partner for New York City's $16bn (£13bn) Hudson Tunnel Project (HTP).
The JV - known as MPA Delivery Partners - will manage the construction of the scheme to construct a pair of 3.8km-long tubes, to be…
A consortium consisting of Aecom and Arcadis has been appointed to design a new tunnel and the underground stations of the Ontario Line.
The Pape North Connect Team, the name of the consortium, will provide design services for the Pape Tunnel and Underground Stations (PTUS) contract for the planned metro in…
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