As net zero targets loom large, local authorities need central government and industry support and innovation to decarbonise their road networks.
Local authorities are responsible for building and maintaining roads but they do not necessarily have the expertise or funds to do so in the most efficient way. Now they…
Main Point Balancing the wind power debate There is one key word missing from Mario Donnetti’s sincerely held views on having many more intermittent wind farms onshore to lower energy costs and move faster to decarbonisation (NCE, last month). That word is democracy. It is built into the fabric of…
After years of planning wrangles, construction of the Silvertown Tunnel in east London is finally underway.
By the time Christmas arrives, contractor Riverlinx’s project manager Ivor Thomas hopes that the Herrenknecht tunnel boring machine (TBM) currently driving the Silvertown Tunnel will have passed safely under the Thames. This would be a…
Reading Mike Keatinge’s letter on work-life balance (NCE, last month), I felt compelled to respond providing the counter argument. I believe my opinion is held by many others. In years gone by, one sole income was adequate for many families to make ends meet, more recently two incomes are needed.…
A consultation has been launched on new proposals for sustainable transport connections to Leeds Bradford Airport.
Leeds City Council is looking for responses to proposals to improve sustainable transport connections along Whitehouse Lane and Scotland Lane after its A65-A658 Link Route proposals were scrapped. The original plans for a £100M 5km…
Last month I speculated about what new prime minister Liz Truss and her now former chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng might have in mind for infrastructure within their September mini-budget. If you had your money on initiatives to further speed up project delivery, I do hope you shouted bingo. Kwarteng identified 138…
The benefits of Leeds’ newly opened dual carriageway go way beyond easing congestion in the city.
"Don’t call it a road, it’s a route,” Balfour Beatty portfolio director Neil Beck jibes after the suggestion that the “R” in Elor could possibly stand for road. In full, the acronym stands for…
Cornwall’s A30 improvement scheme is aiming to not just deliver a dual carriageway, but also a better environment around the 14km stretch of new road.
Significant levels of sustainability, environmental mitigation and ecological enhancement are marking out the A30 improvement scheme in Cornwall as something special. Never mind that the…
Winvic Constuction has been awarded an emergency repair contract by National Highways to perform temporary and permanent maintenance work on the Ouse Bridge.
Routine investigations of the bridge, which carries the M62 between junctions 36 (Goole) and 37 (Howden) in East Riding, Yorkshire, identified a partial failure of a joint on…
Innovative solutions are keeping road workers safe as the push to maintain and improve the network continues.
Road maintenance operatives have a challenging job. They are often exposed to live traffic and often undertake labour-intensive tasks. NCE recently received a response from National Highways to a Freedom of Information request about…
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