National Highways has nearly finished installing a new central reservation on M27, between junctions 5 and 7. Overnight closures are due to be introduced between junction 4 and 9 of the motorway, in Hampshire, from next week as a wider scheme moves on to its next phase. Morgan Sindall is…
Kier Transportation is making progress on the A417 “missing link” upgrade as construction for the project is entering into its second year.
The transport secretary is commencing an internal review of the Department for Transport’s (DfT’s) capital spend portfolio to find ways of closing a £2.9bn funding gap for this year, which could spell the end for some large infrastructure projects.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has confirmed that UK infrastructure projects including the £1.7bn A303 Stonehenge Tunnel “will not move forward” as the government looks to fill a £22bn hole that the government has discovered in its audit of public finances.
Historic aerial imagery of runoff ponds around the M25 shows they are full of vegetation that has been growing for decades, indicating they have not been maintained by National Highways and are full of potentially hazardous sediment from road runoff.
Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) has republished its market engagement exercise seeking a low carbon hydrogen supplier for the plant and equipment needed for construction of the £9bn road and tunnel project as its past exercise did not come to a “successful conclusion”.
The Coal Authority is on the site of a significant subsidence incident on a slip road off the M80 in Scotland to see if the incident is linked to an old mine shaft.
National Highways has missed 11 of its 48 enhancement commitments targets in the delivery of its second Road Investment Strategy (RIS2) for 2020 to 2025, regulator Office of Rail and Road (ORR) has found.
Structural repairs to wrought ironwork, grit blasting and repainting, waterproofing of the road deck and resurfacing on the High Level Bridge on Tyneside have been completed by Network Rail’s contractor AmcoGiffen in a £5.2M restoration programme.
National Highways is trialling a carbon-negative aggregate made by Seaham-based company Low Carbon Materials on a stretch of motorway in Essex.
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