Construction of the world’s largest integrated baggage handling system is underway, with the start of work on a 2km tunnel under Heathrow Airport.
The £260M tunnel will link the airport’s terminals, enabling Heathrow to handle 110M bags annually by 2012.A £3.3M tunnel boring machine (TBM) is working close to existing tunnels…
Amey has confirmed that it has won Network Rail’s Civils Examinations Framework Agreement contract, worth around £250M over five years.
The contract will see it take sole responsibility for all structural assessments across five regions after Network Rail opted to merge 21 existing contracts into five mega-frameworks.Network Rail made the surprise…
Welsh Water has told 70,000 households in Denbighshire and Flintshire to boil their drinking water after supplies from the Alwen Water Treatment Works were found to be infected with bacteria.
The precautionary boil water notice has been put in place following advice from Welsh Water’s public health scientific advisors and liaison…
Arup Amsterdam and Benthem Crouwel Architekten have teamed up to produce a winning bridge design for the Ponte Palazzo footbridge in Den Bosch in the Netherlands.
The bridge will connect the Paleiskwartier area and the old city centre. The bridge is designed as a park above the city, similar to the…
Work to bore a 3.3km tunnel under West Ham in London started today as part of a £65M scheme to protect more than 600 homes from sewer flooding.
The 2.8m diameter sewer will runs 20m below ground from Thames Water’s Abbey Mills sewage pumping station to Forest Gate. It is due…
Environment secretary Hilary Benn was this week accused of “creating confusion” in his draft floods & water bill by focusing too much on above ground, soft sustainable drainage solutions (SUDS).
The Bill aims to increase the use of Sustainable Drainage Systems (SUDS) by ending the automatic right to connect to the…
Sustainable construction delivery targets are being exceeded by the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA), with 57% of materials being delivered by rail alone
The target set out in the Sustainable Development Strategy published in 2007 stated that 50 per cent of materials (by weight) would be transported by rail or water.New figures…
Titan prison plans have been scrapped in favour of more smaller prisons, announced secretary of state for justice today, Jack Straw today
Five prisons holding 1,500 offenders each will be built instead of the three 2,500-place Titan prisons proposed by the Government in 2007The Department for Justice is working to secure…
The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment’s design review panel has slammed London 2012’s media centre plans as “extraordinarily banal” and revealing a “paucity of imagination and analysis” which it finds “deeply disappointing”.
CABE’s design review panel is advising the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) on the quality, sustainability and legacy…
Transport for London has announced that London Underground’s current director of strategy and service development Richard Parry is to take over as interim managing director following Tim O’Toole’s departure.
Parry will take up the role from 1 May.London’s transport commissioner Peter Hendy said: “Richard Parry brings a wealth of experience to…
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