Transport Scotland has handed out a £1.6M ground investigations contract for its planned £32M A83 Old Military Road upgrade to Soil Engineering Geoservices.
As the first phase of the medium term works to improve the resilience of the road, which is used when the A83 Rest and Be Thankful is closed,…
Arcadis, Jacobs Mott MacDonald JV and Turner & Townsend have been appointed to Thames Water’s £160M Programme Partner Framework.
The three lead entities on the framework will support the utility company in the delivery of its Strategic Resource Options (SRO) programme. Thames Water named three big name joint ventures as technical…
Eastern Green Link 1 (EGL1) will be the first project to proceed under a new Ofgem fast track process and will receive a provisional £2bn funding package.
National Grid’s project will construct a subsea energy “superhighway”, in the form of a 2GW high voltage direct current (HVDC) subsea transmission cable, from…
Scotland will not meet its 2030 statutory target of a 75% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Climate Change Committee (CCC).
The comments come as the CCC submits its Progress in reducing emissions in Scotland – 2023 Report to Parliament, where it said Scotland missed its annual target for…
ABB has signed memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Green Hydrogen International (GHI) on a project to develop the major green hydrogen facility in south Texas, United States.
As part of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) ABB’s automation, electrification and digital technology will be assessed for deployment at GHI’s Hydrogen City project.…
The Infrastructure Projects Authority (IPA) has published a framework that outlines how the government can harness the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to tackle public project delivery issues.
The guidance, Data Analytics and AI in Government Project Delivery, encourages responsible experimentation with AI to find solutions to the biggest challenges that…
Considerations around a well-designed urban space that positively impact both the natural environment, and human health, are essential to society.
A regenerative approach to climate-wise design and construction not only creates a sustainable balance but promotes holistic wellbeing for people and nature. Biodiversity is core to this and inextricably linked…
The government is “committed to building on” its support for advanced modular reactors (AMRs), according to an energy minister in the House of Lords.
Backbench Labour hereditary peer Viscount Hansworth asked the government “what assistance they provide to the developers of advanced modular reactors to enable them to conduct criticality tests”…
An expanded offshore grid and new North-to-South onshore electrical spine in Great Britain have been proposed by the Electricity Systems Operator (ESO) in its £58bn investment plan for the UK's power system to achieve the 2035 decarbonisation goal.
The ESO is responsible for operating the electricity system from a control room…
The backlog of carriageway repairs needed in England and Wales will cost £16.3bn while more than half of the local road network has less than 15 years structural life remaining, a new survey has found.
This year’s Annual Local Authority Road Maintenance (Alarm) survey report has been published today, 19 March,…
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