National Highways may be ordered to remove its structural infill from a 19th century North Yorkshire bridge after the local authority requested retrospective planning application.
The Rudgate road bridge, situated approximately 3km west of Tadcaster, is part of the Historical Railways Estate (HRE), which is maintained by National Highways on behalf…
Kent County Council has appointed VolkerFitzpatrick to design and build a new £34M road viaduct over a rail line and river in Canterbury.
The Sturry Link Road project will see the firm construct a 550m long road including a 250m long viaduct over the Great Stour River, the river’s flood plain…
Network Rail and the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) are working to determine the cause of a void opening up near a derailment which took place in Cumbria on Friday 22 March.
Four passengers and four members of staff were safely evacuated from the train which derailed at Grange-over-Sands on the…
Achieving decarbonisation goals requires both the development of a huge range of new infrastructure as well as retrofitting existing facilities.
The scope of work that needs to be engineered ranges from ensuring new buildings are designed to meet the latest standards in energy efficiency, through to the development of giga…
More than a quarter of the UK’s flood-defence structures will be at risk of failure by 2100 due to rising sea levels, according to a report from materials supplier Aggregate Industries.
The report, True Cost of Coastal Erosion to the UK, analysed current geological and geomorphological factors, the human and economic…
Arup has been appointed by Wind Catching Systems (WCS) to provide research and engineering expertise for its ‘windcatcher’ multi-rotor floating offshore wind concept.
The Windcatcher has been designed to reduce the levelised cost of energy (LCoE) of floating wind. LCoE is the average cost of the unit (i.e. kWh) generated by…
A £30M project to construct a research facility looking into sustainable solutions for the UK’s water infrastructure has been completed by Aecom and Morgan Sindall.
The Aecom-led project, with Morgan Sindall handling construction, has seen the completion of the Centre for Resilience in Environment, Water and Waste (Creww) at University of…
UK Power Networks has partnered with Barhale to build a micro-tunnel under the Grand Union Canal in West London to deliver power for High Speed 2 (HS2) tunnel boring machines (TBMs).
The tunnel will be used to carry power cables for HS2’s TBMs that are set to build the high-speed rail…
Network Rail is investing more than £20M to rebuild a major railway bridge that takes trains over the M62 in Castleton, near Rochdale.
The 42m long, 2,000t bridge, known as Castleton bridge, carries 6% of the UK’s energy supply across the country as freight trains carry material to and from Drax…
WSP and AtkinsRéalis have been appointed by Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) under a 10-year agreement to support its geological disposal facilities (GDF) programme.
GDFs involve storing higher-activity nuclear waste hundreds of metres underground and according to the UK Government are internationally recognised as the safest long-term solution for the waste. A…
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