Highways England has launched a new £8.7bn Regional Delivery Partnership framework, which will be a cornerstone of its relationship with the supply chain for the second UK Road Investment Strategy (RIS2) until 2024.
Transport for the North (TfN) has launched a draft 30-year £70bn Strategic Transport Plan and outlined proposals for improved east to west connectivity.
He is in charge of a project portfolio worth £8bn, but Highways England’s complex infrastructure programme director Chris Taylor is watching every penny.
Your December edition addresses the issue of failure, in the context of the Grenfell disaster, and it is right that we do this (New Civil Engineer, December 2017). And on the first page, the ICE viewpoint talks about the need to celebrate our engineering successes more. I think these two…
It is an exciting time for UK infrastructure – after decades of Cinderella status, investment in it now has cross-party and national consensus as the best way to increase the UK’s lamentable productivity growth and spread that national prosperity across the UK.
The construction industry has called for “major structural change” in the wake of Carillion’s collapse, as inquiries were launched into what went wrong.
Yesterday it was announced that one of Britain’s major contractors went into liquidation, but what does that mean for the 450 public and numerous private contracts held by the company.
Carillion is to enter liquidiation with immediate effect after weekend-long talks with its banks and the government failed to secure any agreement.
Highways England is renewing its focus on good road design with the launch of a set of new good design principles.
A £100M contract is up for tender for works on a major Belfast transport project.
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