Department for Transport (DfT) has revealed a legislative change in a bid to prevent thousands of potholes forming each year in a bid to reduce road repair costs and minimise damage to vehicles.
Trench repair work by utility companies will come under the spotlight under the new legislation which will be…
1972 – Tarbela dam – Pakistan The 1972 collapse of irrigation and power tunnels on one of the world’s largest dams was caused by scour and poor design but was the first of several collapses that affected the project over the next three years. 1973 – Rio-Niteroi Bridge – Brazil…
NCE’s the Future of Roads and Future of Rail events are returning to physical conferences in 2022 and will be co-located at the event in London on 6 July.
To mark NCE’s 50th anniversary this year, both conferences will include a look back over how each sector has developed in the…
Winvic Construction has won a new contract with Lincolnshire County Council to deliver highway works across the county.
The ‘General Works’ contract involves the construction of new infrastructure assets as well improvements on existing ones on main truck roads (A roads) and numbered distributor roads (B roads). Among the projects Winvic…
The FiveWays junction in north west Leicester – described by the local council as one of the city’s “most confusing” junctions – will be re-designed as part of a £10.4M scheme to improve road safety.
The signals for the FiveWays junction were commissioned in 1964, and there have only been minor…
A new bypass on the Fylde peninsula will eliminate bottlenecks on the road to the port of Fleetwood.
Perched at the northernmost point of the Fylde peninsula in north west England, the port town of Fleetwood occupies a prominent position overlooking Morecambe Bay. In recent years the area’s economy has been…
Suffolk County Council has opened the bidding process for contractors on a £1.6bn highways maintenance and professional services job.
The contract duration is 10 years, starting from October 2023. An option of extending the contract period to a maximum aggregate of 20 years will be included in the contract. It will…
Repeated road works for utilities is disruptive and resulting congestion costs the economy billions of pounds. The Greater London Authority has come up with a solution.
The 11 week closure of a residential street sounds like a bad news story but for inhabitants of Sunnyhill Road in London Borough of Lambeth…
Net zero targets have put road building and maintenance in the crosshairs, but the industry is developing a range of methods to reduce emissions.
Managing a road network while simultaneously trying to improve road conditions, increase capacity and reduce carbon emissions down to net zero seems like an impossible task. Cracking…
The Department for Transport (DfT) has appointed Arup and Aecom as advisers on specialist engineering, carbon and cost benchmarking.
The companies have been appointed through the Specialist Technical and Commercial Advice for Rail and Other Transport Modes 2 (STAR Two) Framework, created to enable the DfT to access specialist third party…
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