Southampton city centre’s £18.5M transport plan has been approved by the council after being scaled back due to “unprecedented inflation".
The transport scheme has now been given the go ahead to start after two years of back and forth between different controlling powers of the city council. Southampton City Council has…
This month's NCE News Wrap is out now, bringing you recent key stories in a quick five-minute roundup.
In October's News Wrap video, NCE takes a look at the schemes on the list of 138 infrastructure projects to be accelerated as part of chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng's Growth Plan 2022. In a…
Southampton City Council has admitted that it will have to scrap parts of its £18.5M major travel plan due to "unprecedented inflationary pressures".
A city centre pedestrianisation scheme as well as a number of road upgrades are expected to be removed due to cost hikes. The new plans will be presented to…
In early September, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities announced that the examination period for infrastructure projects could be shortened from six months to four months, that there would be a forthcoming infrastructure action plan and that there would be fixed timescales for non-material amendments to Development Consent…
In last week’s mini budget, the UK chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng made renewed commitments to address the UK’s “slow” and “fragmented” planning system. As well as applying tax incentives for businesses within proposed new “investment zones”, Kwarteng announced they would serve as “designated development sites” within which planning processes would be…
The political cycle never stops. Already in 2022, there has been a general election in Australia, hot on the heels of one in Canada. The mid-term elections are imminent in the United States and the UK has a new prime minister, its fourth in just over six years. The ICE…
Public sector procurement authority Scape has appointed Balfour Beatty as the sole contractor that will deliver up to £4bn of major civil engineering works across the country.
The value of Scape’s civil engineering framework for England, Wales and Northern Ireland is £3.25bn, while the framework managed by Scape Scotland is worth…
Transport infrastructure developers will be required to follow new guidelines relating to social value when drawing up project proposals. The Department for Transport (DfT) has released the guidelines to provide engineering companies, built environment firms and infrastructure clients with a new way of assessing social value. As such, those bidding…
Transport ministers from the UK and Ukraine yesterday signed a joint action plan to provide engineering expertise and support to help the Ukraine rebuild war-damaged infrastructure.
UK transport secretary Grant Shapps formed the agreement with the Ukraine ministry of infrastructure leader Oleksandr Kubrakov after learning of the impact of the war…
Climate-related disasters across the world have focused attention on the need for resilient and adaptive infrastructure.
Civil engineers are used to designing and building infrastructure for extremes, not averages. But the definition of “extreme” has shifted in recent years. Even with progress towards net zero, climate change is happening right now…
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