Costain is working with the Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW), the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) and National Highways, to raise awareness of the dangers of ‘blue light incursions’.

A development consent order has been approved for the A46 Walsgrave scheme. Part of the wider A46 Coventry junctions upgrade.

Balfour Beatty has been awarded a £315m seven-year Warwickshire Highways Maintenance contract by Coventry City Council, Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council and Warwickshire County Council.

National Highways has appointed Costain to design and build a new junction on the M5 motorway. 

A new skills academy offering fully-funded training programmes to military veterans is set to open at the Drayton highways depot in Oxfordshire.

A round-up of the most impressive construction pictures from the past month.

HS2 engineers have completed a 17-hour long operation to slide a 4,600 tonne viaduct across the M6, without closing the motorway.

Government has given the greenlight for contractors on the Lower Thames Crossing project to begin procurement of a tunnel boring machine (TBM).

A construction company has been fined £1 million after a road resurfacing project ended in tragedy in May 2022.

The realigned A361, which runs over one of the longest ‘cut-and-cover’ tunnels on the HS2 project, has been reopened.

National Highways and the UK Roads Leadership Group have published new guidance which aims to support better design of major UK roads and bridges to help reduce suicide risk.

Local authorities need a “fresh approach” to investing in the local road network, Tarmac has said in response to a report revealing that road repair backlogs have reached a record £16.81bn.

The Welsh Government has confirmed works on the A465 Heads of the Valleys road will finish this summer, 23 years after they started.

With local authorities spending millions every year in maintainig roads and filling potholes, Tarmac’s Brian Kent examines sustainable solutions that can help fixing the problem in the long-term.

Highway departments estimate that it would take an average of 11 years to get local roads across England and Wales “into a reasonable steady state”, a new report shows.

The Welsh government has recommitted itself to a pause on road building.

The Department for Transport (DfT) and National Highways face “difficult decisions” in prioritising road enhancement projects amid rising costs, the National Audit Office (NAO) has warned.

materials that will help it build net zero homes and achieve its environmental targets.