The Rhineland branch of Germany’s motorway network operator Autobahn has awarded a €358M (£307M) contract to a consortium led by Eiffage’s German subsidiary SEH for the construction of a new bridge across the Rhine in Leverkusen, Germany.
The other consortium partners are Max Boegl, Plauen Stahl Technologie, Zwickauer Sonderstahlbau and Hochtief…
High Speed 2 (HS2) is due to begin the deck construction of a 450m long viaduct in Buckinghamshire as the first of 38 steel beams for the low carbon structure have arrived on site.
Weighing 40t and 25m in length, the beams have travelled more than 900km to reach the site…
Engineers have started assembling High Speed 2’s (HS2’s) Thame Valley Viaduct, which is the first major rail viaduct in the UK to have been manufactured off-site.
The Thame Valley Viaduct will be 880m long and carry the high speed rail line across the flood plain of the River Thame, just outside…
Toulouse’s €2.7bn (£2.4bn) Metro Line C project has progressed with the award of tunnelling contracts to a joint venture of Eiffage and NGE for lot 2 and a joint venture of Implenia and Demathieu Bard Construction for lot 3.
The Line C metro project broke ground in December and is being…
HS2’s four main contractors have asked for more money or time on the project 3,000 times since works started in September 2020.
An internal review document by HS2 Ltd deputy chair Sir Jon Thompson leaked in October revealed that the cost of the mega project is heading towards “many billions more…
HS2 Ltd’s contractor EKFB (Eiffage, Kier, Ferrovial, Bam Nuttall JV) has mobilised heavy machinery in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire to begin excavating material to make space for two of the longest cuttings on the high-speed route.
The 4.1km cutting from Barton Hartshorn to Mixbury, near Brackley, will be the longest cutting on…
Two out of the four main contractor joint ventures (JVs) working on HS2 Phase 1, London to Birmingham, lack “sufficient capability to manage all the various obligations placed upon them”, according to a leaked internal review document.
The document, seen by the Financial Times, is report by HS2 Ltd deputy chair…
Five international joint ventures have been moved on to the second round of procurement to build the Latvia mainline section of Rail Baltica.
The project is an 870km high-speed electrified rail line connecting Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, with further connections to Finland and Poland. It is the largest infrastructure project in…
Contractors have created adjustable steel bridges to carry pedestrians, cyclists and horses over the High Speed 2 railway.
The EFKB consortium published images of the railway crossings planned for 11 locations across Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire. EKFB – consisting of Eiffage, Kier, Ferrovial Construction and Bam Nuttall – worked with designers…
Work has begun on HS2’s carbon cutting Wendover Dean viaduct in Buckinghamshire, with contractors EKFB (a JV of Eiffage, Kier, Ferrovial and Bam Nuttall) sinking the first of the 53 concrete piles that will form the foundations.
The piles range from 38m to 46m deep. Instead of hammering the piles into…
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