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Decarbonising construction will require new skills, innovative procurement and investment in technology, a major new industry report has declared.

The scale of disappearing workloads has been laid bare by a report showing that the value of new civil engineering work starting on site this winter was just a third of that begun in the same period last year.

An annual survey report from the Asphalt Industry Alliance (AIA) has revealed the funding shortfall for local road repairs is the highest it’s been in 28 years at £1.3bn leading to roads in England and Wales being branded "a national embarrassment".

A consultation has been launched on a levy that will force developers to contribute a “fair share” towards the funding of transport links and other local infrastructure.

The Italian government has ordered the restart of the planning procedure for a bridge over the Strait of Messina, between Sicily and Calabria, which will become the longest suspension bridge in the world.

John Sisk & Son is to start work tonight (20 March) to install a contraflow system to allow National Highways' £37M A14 junction 47a Haughley to 49 Tothill reconstruction scheme to get underway.

The key to designing National Highways’ new motorway gantries was to understand and prioritise the different needs including carrying signage, visual impact and low carbon before exploring and refining the options to develop an optimal solution, according to the winning design team.

The chair of the Roads Review Panel that scrapped all new major road building projects in Wales has defended the decision after claims from the Senedd there was no public engagement.

Delays and rescoping of major projects, such as High Speed 2  (HS2) and major road schemes including the Lower Thames Crossing, the A66 Pennine upgrade and the A303 Stonehenge tunnel, have driven up bid costs and uncertainty among the construction supply chain, NCE has heard.

Investment in road maintenance and nuclear energy innovation were two of the headline announcements in yesterday’s spring budget announcement by chancellor Jeremy Hunt.