News FM Conway lands £1.25bn Westminster highways and public realm contract FM Conway, with WSP, will deliver a £1.25bn highways and public realm contract over the next 8.5 years.
News Low-carbon road job: Emissions cut in half with hydrogen and electric gear plus recycled asphalt The approach prevented 630 tonnes of CO2 from entering the atmosphere, a 50% improvement on conventional methods.
News Costain partners with police to drive road safety awareness 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’.
News Octavius gets green light for A46 Walsgrave junction scheme A development consent order has been approved for the A46 Walsgrave scheme. Part of the wider A46 Coventry junctions upgrade.
News Balfour Beatty secures £315m highways contract 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.
News Costain wins M5 gigafactory junction contract National Highways has appointed Costain to design and build a new junction on the M5 motorway.
People Highways skills academy set to open for veterans A new skills academy offering fully-funded training programmes to military veterans is set to open at the Drayton highways depot in Oxfordshire.
News In pictures | The best images from December A round-up of the most impressive construction pictures from the past month.
Video Video | HS2 completes ‘innovative’ M6 bridge slide HS2 engineers have completed a 17-hour long operation to slide a 4,600 tonne viaduct across the M6, without closing the motorway.
News Lower Thames Crossing contractors begin search for TBM Government has given the greenlight for contractors on the Lower Thames Crossing project to begin procurement of a tunnel boring machine (TBM).
News Highways firm handed £1m fine after worker death A construction company has been fined £1 million after a road resurfacing project ended in tragedy in May 2022.
News HS2 tunnel reaches milestone following ‘serious challenges’ The realigned A361, which runs over one of the longest ‘cut-and-cover’ tunnels on the HS2 project, has been reopened.
People Suicide prevention guidance released for highways sector 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.
News ‘Reactive repairs not enough’: Tarmac responds to potholes report 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.
News Heads of the Valleys road project nearing completion after 23 years The Welsh Government has confirmed works on the A465 Heads of the Valleys road will finish this summer, 23 years after they started.
Opinion Can new materials technology solve the potholes problem? 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.
News More than a decade needed to bring roads up to scratch 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.
News Welsh housing projects must support active travel following road pause The Welsh government has recommitted itself to a pause on road building.
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