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Restoration of the Palace of Westminster will be “reasonably ambitious” in scope and take between 11 and 17 years with both Houses possibly decanting for the majority, the Restoration and Renewal (R&R) Client Board has revealed.

Preliminary reports into the crumbling Parliament building revealed that the degradation is worse than anticipated,…

Balfour Beatty, working on behalf of National Highways, was able to reopen the M25 eight hours earlier than scheduled after the efficient demolition of a motorway overbridge.

The London orbital motorway saw complete closure for the first time in its 38 year history between junctions 10 and 11 this past weekend,…

The impact on biodiversity in southern Ukraine following the breach of the Nova Kokhovka dam has been studied in an “unprecedented” rapid assessment by the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (UKCEH) and HR Wallingford using remote sensing.

The 3.2km long, 30m high dam across the Dnipro River was breached on…

The way we experience any given moment, meeting or conversation is completely unique to us. Everyone’s brain works differently. Whether you work for a multi-national, interdisciplinary engineering firm with 30,000 employees or you’re self-employed, it’s vital to accept and understand this.

Recognising, celebrating and harnessing neurodiversity is an important pillar…

Load-bearing structures can be made with origami modules, a University of Michigan research project has revealed.

Engineers from the university have now demonstrated how structures such as bridges and buildings can be constructed using versatile components folded compactly and adapted into different shapes, with consistency of thickness being the key takeaway…

National Grid innovations to improve cable health monitoring, decarbonise rural communities and utilise electric plant in streetworks have won nearly £400,000 funding from the latest stage of the Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF).

These funds will allow the projects to progress to feasibility studies as part of SIF’s discovery phase aimed…

Network Rail issued a series of warnings to the public on 19 March about incidents across the railway in Great Britain including a landslip, points failure and a suspected broken rail.

At 07:03, Southern posted to X saying “urgent repairs” were needed on the track at Oxted and the track towards…

Nine firms have been awarded construction and engineering contracts worth £4bn for net zero and carbon capture projects on Teesside and the Humber.

The projects are the bp and Equinor joint venture Net Zero Teesside Power and Northern Endurance Partnership, which is set to build one of the world’s first commercial-scale…

An electric train has travelled for the first time between Manchester Victoria and Stalybridge, as part of the Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU), Network Rail has announced.

Engineers have been testing the new electrification equipment installed along the route as part of the multi-billion-pound upgrade to the line between Manchester and York,…

Transport for London (TfL) has alerted contractors to an upcoming contract for the upgrade of the infrastructure and depot associated with the entirety of the Bakerloo line.

TfL is in the process of upgrading the Bakerloo line fleet, which is now the oldest rolling stock operating in the UK. Continuing to…