Author Archives: Catherine Moore

Network Rail is set to begin urgent repairs on a badly cracked embankment on the line between Woking and Basingstoke next week following a landslip.

Tiny sensors in the ground, known as remote condition monitoring, have detected movement in a 100m-long slope next to the St John’s Hill Road overbridge between…

A 55m-long footbridge, weighing 68t, has been lowered into place over the A5 at Mile End in Oswestry, Shropshire.

The bridge was installed by a 1,000t crane. Led by Beaver Bridges, the work was carried out overnight on Monday (27 November). The bridge has been designed to accommodate both cyclists…

Midlands Connect has released a report underlining the need for proposed upgrades to the A46 Newark bypass, urging the government to commit to the project.

The scheme, costed between £400M and £500M, has been dubbed “imperative” by Midlands Connect chairman Sir John Peace. According to the report, the existing bypass is…

HS2 contractor EKFB (Eiffage Kier Ferrovial Bam JV) has completed the last section of earthworks that will carry East West Rail (EWR) services over the new high-speed line, near the village of Calvert in Buckinghamshire.

EWR will run between Oxford and Cambridge. HS2 contractors have now built two bridges, an underpass…

Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has convened the first meeting of a new British Infrastructure Council, which will consider ways to boost infrastructure investment.

Members of the council, which met on Monday 20 November, include leaders from Lloyds, HSBC, Santander UK, Phoenix, Fidelity and US firm BlackRock. They are acting in an…

All roads at Eurostar’s east London Temple Mills depot have now been upgraded with moveable electrification equipment.

Eurostar’s long-term partnership with overhead lines specialist Furrer+Frey has played a key part in the depot’s gradual upgrade since 2007. The Moveable Conductor Bar electrification equipment installed by Furrer+Frey can be moved out of…

MSG’s plans to build an enormous spherical arena in East London have been rejected by London mayor Sadiq Khan.

The proposal to build an arena in the ilk of the Sphere that has wowed audiences in Las Vegas was given the go ahead by the local authority last year, but still…

The search has begun for a contractor to work on the design and construction of a bridge linking Brazil and Bolivia.

The Rio Mamoré International Bridge will connect Guajará-Mirim, Brazil, with Guayaramerin, Bolivia. Its estimated cost is R$429.5M (£70.6M). The tender notice, published by the Brazilian Government, states that the successful…

The government has pledged to redirect HS2 funding worth £8.3bn to deal with potholes and resurface more than 8,000km of roads across England in a moved described as “a game changer” by experts.

It is part of the government’s Network North plan, with money from the cancelled HS2 Phase 2…

The Albert Embankment cofferdam built out into the River Thames in central London as part of Tideway has been re-flooded – signalling the latest milestone for the £4.5bn super sewer project.

The cofferdam along the Thames’ south bank in Lambeth was first created in November 2018 by building a wall of…