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Humza Yousaf was formally appointed as first minister of Scotland this afternoon after succeeding Nicola Sturgeon as leader of the Scottish National Party. The former transport minister, who turns 38 next month, put a number of infrastructure policies at the heart of his election campaign. He has described his new…

Matt Palmer, the executive director of Lower Thames Crossing (LTC), has been appointed an industry sponsor looking after net zero and biodiversity for the Construction Leadership Council (CLC).

Palmer is one of four sponsors announced today by the CLC to lead delivery of its long-term priorities set last autumn - building…

Galliford Try has won a major highway project in the North West that has soared in cost during a troubled procurement process.

The contractor was appointed by Cumbria County Council this week to design and build the £226M Carlisle Southern Link Road. Morgan Sindall was initially awarded the job almost exactly…

Two huge steel sections for Lowestoft’s £146M Gull Wing bridge are due to be delivered this week after being postponed from the weekend.

Once the two massive steel structures have been delivered engineers from Farrans, the contractor working on the project, will lift them on top of the piers and bolt…

Norfolk County Council has fired the starting gun on procurement of a contractor to build a long-awaited bypass. The local authority published an official notice of the £30M job to create a 4km road around the village of Long Stratton. Contractors have until 28 April to express their interest in…

The first reconstruction scheme under National Highways’ Concrete Roads programme is a challenging testbed.

National Highways can hardly have chosen a more difficult project with which to kick start the reconstruction element of its programme to rebuild and revitalise England’s concrete roads. The 8km A11 dual carriageway between Spooner Row and…

The National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has said that the last year has seen UK infrastructure delivery “stutter further just as the need for acceleration has heightened” and that “in a range of areas government is off track to meet its targets and ambitions”.

The NIC has published its Infrastructure Progress Review 2023…

The new cycle lanes and road layout for the Old Street roundabout upgrade have been completed while construction of the new station entrance superstructure continues, Transport for London (TfL) has revealed.

The upgrade was initially planned to complete in 2020, but pandemic setbacks and complexities of the job have seen its…

Installation of steel support frames to the saddles that attach the chains on London’s Hammersmith bridge this month marks a major milestone in the work to stabilise the structure.

The 135 year old bridge across the River Thames, between the London Boroughs of Hammersmith and Fulham and Richmond, has been closed…

The use of digital twins by infrastructure owners and operators to understand how assets work in a wider system is among the recommendations on enhancing UK infrastructure’s climate resilience included in a new ICE report.

The How can the UK’s infrastructure system be made more climate resilient? report includes several recommendations…