WSP will lead a host of high-level contractors in providing technical advice for the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero’s (DESNZ) Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) programme.
The global professional services firm will continue its advisory work on the delivery of the CCUS programme, leading Acrometis, Arup, Crondall Energy,…
The Department for Transport (DfT) has announced its roster of 37 contractors appointed to its £600M STARThree framework to advise on the delivery of rail, road and aviation projects.
STARThree is is officially known as the Specialist Technical and Commercial Advisory for Rail and Other Transport Systems Framework and this is…
Arup has been appointed by the Department for Transport (DfT) to monitor and evaluate the carbon-busting highways innovations being developed under the £30M Live Labs 2 initiative.
Live Labs 2 is a DfT-funded initiative run by the Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning & Transport (Adept) that aims to develop…
Low carbon concrete mixes being trialled on a flood alleviation scheme in Northumberland could be a key environmental solution for future projects.
Heavy rainfall during Storm Desmond in December 2015 made the River Tyne overtop its banks north of Hexham town centre in Northumberland. The Bridge End and Tyne Mills…
For the first time ever, the Republic and Northern Ireland have collaborated on a €35bn (£29.2bn) proposal to revolutionise the railways on both sides of the border.
The ambitious All-Island Rail Review was put together by Arup on behalf of Northern Ireland’s Department for Infrastructure and the Republic of Ireland’s Department…
National Highways, working with delivery partners Kier, Balfour Beatty and Keltbray, worked under Project Speed principles to collaboratively create a robust development consent order (DCO) application for the £1.3bn A66 North Trans-Pennine upgrade, the project manager told NCE.
Designed by an Amey-Arup integrated team from the preliminary stages, the A66 upgrade…
Contractor Farrans Sacyr JV, designer Arup and client Translink have celebrated Belfast Grand Central Station’s topping out ceremony to mark the completion of the main building’s steel frame.
The new transport hub will replace the current Europa bus centre and Great Victoria Street train station with an 8ha site in Weavers…
The Women's Engineering Society (WES), which organises International Women in Engineering Day (Inwed), has marked the 10th anniversary of the day of celebrating female engineers by revealing that 11 civil engineers have made the 2023 Top 50 Women in Engineering (WE50) list.
The WE50 started in 2016 to showcase the diversity…
Transport for London (TfL) has spent over £7.5M on developing the Bakerloo line extension to date, even as the project remains officially mothballed.
Despite London mayor Sadiq Khan having said the Bakerloo extension is “completely out of reach” in 2021 and former TfL commissioner Andy Byford saying it is “not on…
Six winners will have their designs for track buckle detection solutions assessed on a rail test-rig after Network Rail announced the winners of its innovation contest.
The Track Buckle Risk and Detection Design Contest, organised by Network Rail, ran between 18 November and 5 January to look for remote monitoring solutions…
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