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Transport secretary Mark Harper has green lit the £1.3bn widening of the A12 between Chelmsford and Colchester and National Highways has released new images showing what the project will look like.

National Highways wants to widen the A12 between junction 19 and junction 25 (A120 interchange) in an attempt to ease…

Webuild has signed a contract worth $4.7bn (£3.7bn) to build an artificial lake at Trojena, one of the projects within the Saudi Arabian mega-project called Neom.

The construction will feature three new dams to create the 2.8km long freshwater lake. The planned construction includes a dramatic structure in front of the…

The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has served enforcement notices to four companies at the Hinkley Point C construction site for shortfalls in fire safety.

The four companies include Bouygues Travaux Publics and Laing O’Rourke who form the Bylor JV, the main civil contractor on the Somerset nuclear power station. Notices…

A development consent order (DCO) has been granted for bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (Beccs) to be implemented at Drax Power Station in Yorkshire.

Secretary of state for energy security and net zero Claire Coutinho approved the DCO, which will see Drax convert two biomass units at Drax Power Station…

French gas utility operator GRDF is installing the world’s first “sustainable” gas pipeline using bio-based high-density polyethylene (HDPE) from chemical manufacturer Ineos.

The low-carbon pipeline is being installed in Clermont-Ferrand, France as part of a programme to reduce the city’s carbon footprint. Ineos said the HDPE is made from wood-based polymer.…

A fresh series of delays to journeys have hit Network Rail’s Wales and Western region over the past week, with route operator Great Western Railway (GWR) regularly notifying passengers of service disruptions due to engineering issues.

These come as the Office of Road and Rail (ORR) investigates already poor performance by…

National Highways engineers are investigating a bridge-strike prone structure over the M42 following two collisions in the space of a week.

The M42 near Birmingham has been reduced to two lanes after a bridge crossing the route - located between junctions 7 (M6 J4) and 6 (Birmingham Airport) - was damaged…

Lava defences enabled by digital flow monitoring have “held up well” in the small fishing town of Grindavik following the recent volcanic eruption, a specialist civil engineer has confirmed.

An eruption event at the Fagradalsfjall volcano on Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula began on 14 January, setting off a series of intense earthquakes…

The government does not know if it is making the UK more resilient to flooding despite its £5.2bn plan, a report from the spending watchdog has concluded.

The Public Accounts Committee’s (PAC’s) Resilience to flooding report follows on from the National Audit Office’s (NAO’s) December report that concluded there is no…

We must integrate efforts in energy transition, green infrastructure and retrofit for data centres to adapt to the new wave of artificial intelligence (AI).

The advent of data generation and consumption was always going to require solutions that go beyond traditional delivery and thinking. Engineers and infrastructure consultants have been…