Tottenham Hotspur yesterday released the latest plans for its new stadium development, designed by KSS architects and Buro Happold.
The Northumberland Development Project, as it is known, will comprise a 58,000 all seater stadium and associated projects including a hotel, housing, a club museum, and a supermarket.Yesterday’s announcement revealed that a…
London mayor Boris Johnson has stormed out of Commons Transport Select Committee meeting, citing partisan questioning over the paralysis of London’s bus service after heavy snow in Febraury.
The snowfall on the night of Sunday 1 February brought London to a virtual standstill, with widespreadl bus cancellations the next day. As…
The Government today launched a £500,000 fund for the development of embryonic tidal technologies that could be used in the Severn estuary.
First announced when the shortlist of Severn tidal power schemes being considered for construction was published in January, the fund will help to develop technologies such as tidal reefs…
Failed hanger connections which forced the closure of Glasgow’s Clyde Arc bridge last year met the design specification, connection supplier Macalloy claimed last week.Macalloy rejected claims from Clyde Arc steel fabricator Watson Steel that it had supplied faulty steel with poorly manufactured connection holes to the project. Watson is claiming…
Crossrail’s £100M programme partner began unveiling the team that would manage the £16bn rail scheme this week after signing the contract for the job last Friday.
The Transcend consortium of Aecom, CH2M Hill and Nichols Group has confirmed an additional three non-equity partners for the consortium. These are cost consultants Turner…
Expanded Piling picks up Isle of Dogs station coffer dam job
Laing O’Rourke subsidiary Expanded Piling this week scooped one of the contracts to create the coffer dam for Crossrail’s Isle of Dogs station at London’s Canary Wharf. Expanded will create a massive cofferdam using 1.2m diameter tubular steel piles inside…
Doug Oakervee stepped down from his role as Crossrail executive chairman this week, to make way for London & Continental boss Rob Holden who took up his role as chief executive on Wednesday.
Oakervee will now become Crossrail’s non-executive chairman until Tube Lines chief executive Terry Morgan becomes of chairman in…
Network Rail this week set out how it will spend £35bn on more than 500 projects during the next five years.
The track operator said the start of the new five year regulatory period on Wednesday marked “the start of a new era for rail in Britain”.Network Rail chief executive Iain…
MPs last week savaged the government for embarking on a series of high-profile infrastructure schemes without any coherent engineering policy
They urged ministers to appoint a Government Chief Engineer to advise them. The Commons Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills Committe’s report Engineering: turning ideas into reality, concluded the government lacks the…
Lawyer claims consultant knew bridge bearings had seized up before collapse.
Consultant URS and contractor Progressive Contracting Inc (PCI) are to be sued by victims of the fatal I-35W Bridge collapse in Minneapolis, their lead attorney said last week.URS was Minnesota State’s checking engineer for the bridge and PCI was carrying…
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