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Civils firm Colas Rail has scooped up a £206.9m job to develop HS2’s overhead wiring system. The contractor will now design, manufacture, install and test HS2's overhead catenary system (OCS), for 469km worth of track. That will include overhead wiring to supply electric power for 250 bridges, 58 viaducts, 47…
The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) is searching for a contractor to lead its £1.8bn estate overhaul, featuring new office space, labs and infrastructure upgrades around the country. In a prior information notice published on Thursday (6 February), the arm’s-length government body said it aims to hire a construction…
The troubled process of creating a mass transit system to transport High Speed 2 (HS2) passengers to other rail interchanges has taken a step forward with the shortlisting of two contractors. Two European cable car specialists will now slug it out for £269m of work on the project. French firm…
Graham and Aecom have been appointed to complete detailed designs for a £332m highways and infrastructure scheme around Didcot. CN100 contractor Graham announced yesterday (6 February) that it will create detailed designs for the planned Culham river crossing and Clifton Hampden bypass for client Oxfordshire City Council. Aecom, meanwhile, will…
Skanska has been picked to provide design advice and project management for the £1.25bn electric arc furnace development at Port Talbot. Skanska Technology, the group’s UK consultancy arm, has been working on the mega-project for more than four months – but has now signed a deal with Tata Steel to…
The client on a major Sir Robert McAlpine gigafactory job is looking for a contractor to build a ring road around the facility. Agratas – part of Indian multinational Tata – released a £60m prior information notice (PIN) yesterday for a ring road around its £4bn battery cell manufacturing facility…
Winvic and Octavius Infrastructure have been named on all three lots of a highways construction framework in the East of England. The four-year Eastern Highways Alliance 4 (EHA4) framework will deliver projects including highways improvements, bridges and structural works, subways, culverts and retaining walls. Winvic and Octavius Infrastructure are the…
A joint venture (JV) involving the UK construction arm of Ferrovial is to deliver a £230m electricity upgrade project in South East England. Ferrovial and Bemo’s UK division will build a 2.2km-long tunnel for National Grid under the River Thames. They will also lay high-voltage cable within the tunnel to…
The number of incursions into cordoned-off National Highways areas nearly trebled in 2024, posing a safety risk to construction workers. Data obtained by Construction News under the Freedom of Information Act shows there were 5,899 incursion incidents on the road agency’s network in 2024, or around 492 every month. The…
Urgent maintenance work to the UK’s transport network must take priority to counter a “perfect storm” created by the impact of climate change impact and a lack of skills. Maintenance work must come before new projects to put the UK’s infrastructure on a sustainable footing, according to the Institution of…
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