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Long-standing issues on the railway remain, despite the Department for Transport (DfT) having identified ‘key problems’, according to the government spending watchdog the National Audit Office (NAO).

In its report Rail reform: the rail transformation programme, the NAO assessed – whether the DfT has a clear rationale for reform of the…

28 boreholes will be drilled to a depth of 225m to access geothermal energy and enable the British Geological Survey (BGS) to decarbonise its headquarters campus in Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire.

BGS said the project will save 30 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent each year and would reduce the organisation’s heating bill. The…

The government has committed £1bn for the next round of the renewable energy Contracts for Difference (CfD) auction.

This funding has been put forward in 2011-2012 prices, in line with what has been published in the Spring Budget but in today’s prices, based on CPI inflation, is worth close to £1.4bn.…

The runway at Rothera Research Station, a British Antarctic Survey (BAS) base, has been resurfaced by Bam with designs by Ramboll.

The upgrades were part of BAS’s Antarctic Infrastructure Modernisation Programme (AIMP) to improve the capability of the station at Rothera which is a major hub for international science in Antarctica.…

We have a fascinating nuclear history in the UK; Nuclear physicists John Cockroft and Ernest Newton (working under Ernest Rutherford) split the atom in 1932 at Cambridge University’s Cavendish Laboratory, and kickstarted the UK’s journey to pioneer the use of radioactive materials and develop a whole new industry for the…

The £1.3bn A66 Northern Trans-Pennine project application has been granted development consent by the secretary of state for transport, Mark Harper.

The scheme will look to improve the A66 between the M6 at Penrith and the A1 at Scotch Corner by dualling 30km of single carriageway. The existing route is 80km…

Less cement could be needed for concrete construction projects with the launch of a new technology service solution from building materials giant Cemex.

Cemex announced it had launched i-Con on 5 March which it describes as an intelligent concrete monitoring solution. Cemex UK national technical director Mike Higgins said: “Cemex i-Con…

A wide range of measures to address the climate and biodiversity emergencies have been announced in Transport for London’s (TfL) green infrastructure and biodiversity plan.

TfL said the plan “fully aligns with” its 2021 corporate environment plan. It said it’s new green infrastructure plan “captures in one place, for the first…

The Department for Transport (DfT) has responded to the Transport Committee’s inquiry of the revised National Networks National Policy Statement (NNNPS) for building road, rail and freight networks.

In March last year, the DfT revised the NNNPS to bring it inline with recent decarbonisation and environment policies. The NNNPS sets out…

Aecom has won two big contracts to support the development and design of vital rail infrastructure in both the UK and US.

The first contract win concerns a £29M tender to take the planned Mid Cornwall Metro through to the detailed design stage of the project. The new coast to coast…