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The UK Government has allocated £1.4M to fund eight projects focused on infrastructure climate change resilience.

The £1.4M will support eight projects supported by computational modelling that promise to reinforce infrastructure resilience against severe weather events. The projects all have a key focus on underground infrastructure including water pipes and electrical…

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,…

A railway bridge that was being built in northeast India collapsed on the night of Wednesday 23 August claiming 26 lives in the latest tragedy of recent under construction bridge failures.

The bridge was being constructed near Sairang, in the state of Mizoram, as part of a project to connect it…

A proposed £2.1bn subsea electricity “superhighway” between England and Scotland has now had planning consent by all necessary authorities approved.

Eastern Green Link 2 (EGL2) is a proposal to connect Peterhead in Scotland with Drax’s power station in North Yorkshire with 463km of subsea cables. Planning consent for all onshore and…

Jackson Civil Engineering, working on behalf of the Environment Agency, has begun a third phase of ongoing work to secure the coast of the Humber estuary in North East Lincolnshire.

Work began on 23 August to install 4.5km of coastal defences along part of the Humber estuary’s south bank at the…

BBV (Balfour Beatty Vinci JV) has completed the first 18m tall pier for the Water Orton Viaducts for High Speed 2 (HS2).

There will be 32 of these piers in total to carry the twin viaducts, which will be part of the Delta Junction in the West Midlands, the high speed…

In my 12 years of experience in the construction industry, I've often heard concerns about inadequate construction waste management. Despite claims of a 99% diversion from landfill rate, industry insiders know that the actual rate is much lower. This discrepancy is attributed to the manual, labour-intensive and error-prone waste management…

FM Conway will begin the next phase of critical safety repairs for Wandsworth Bridge as replacement bearings have arrived on site.

Wandsworth Council believes the repairs will be completed on time. The bearings have arrived on site from Romania, where they were fabricated. The northern end of the bridge has been…

Network Rail has confirmed that its £78M project to electrify the railway between Bolton and Wigan has been paused due to contractor Buckingham Group entering administration.

Buckingham Group announced on 17 August that it is no longer able to continue trading due to “rapidly escalating contract losses and a sharp reduction…

The Department for Education (DfE) has said that fire and structural safety issues were its main concerns in the closed schools built by Caledonian Modular and has alerted other government departments.

Following on from this week’s closures of Sir Frederick Gibberd College in Harlow and Haygrove School in Somerset, the DfE…