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The Government has selected the preferred route for the final central section of the East-West rail link between Bedford and Cambridge. The new line could be open by 2030 spurring economic and housing growth in the region This new route will see two new stations built, one at Tempsford or St Neots and one for […]

HS2 has fired the starting gun on bidding for Birmingham’s landmark Curzon Street station. Rail procurement chiefs have opted for a two-stage bid process for the first time to nail down the cost of delivering the project. It is the second time the massive station project has been put out to tender. Last July HS2 […]

Network Rail has named the contractors it will use to deliver up to £4bn of infrastructure work across its Western and Wales region. Four firms have won places in Wales with Alun Griffiths figuring in most lots. A total of seven firms have secured places as favoured firms in the Western region, with BAM, Hochtief […]

HS2 has renegotiated its civils design and environmental services contracts for routes from Birmingham to Leeds and Manchester with fees rising by 50%. Design fees and environment services work needed to support the hybrid Bill for the route was originally expected to cost around £350m. That figure has now soared to £524m as HS2 has […]

Four contractors have secured the major projects lot for a £500m civil engineering framework across the South of England. Hampshire County Council, which is handling the highways infrastructure and civil engineering work procurement, has selected Hochtief (UK), Skanska, Tarmac Trading and VolkerFitzpatrick to deliver projects valued from £8m to £150m. It also includes ECI call-offs […]

The Oakervee review into HS2 is recommending that the project go ahead in full despite ballooning costs. According to a leak to the Times, Oakervee has concluded that the £88bn project goes ahead in full but he criticises HS2 procurement for shouldering all the risk with little gain. The leaked document, authored by the former HS2 […]

Crossrail will not open next year and its costs have risen again by up to £650m. Project bosses confirmed that the line will now “open as soon as practically possible in 2021.” Transport for London said a more exact timetable will be unveiled “early in 2020″. Crossrail was originally due to open in December 2018 Latest […]

Tunnellers have broken through on the first section of tunnel for London’s new super sewer. Break through on first section of 1.1km Frogmore Connection Tunnel from Wandsworth to Fulham The tunnel boring machine, named after suffragist Charlotte Despard, is digging the Frogmore Connection Tunnel from Wandsworth to Fulham as part of the Thames Tideway Tunnel […]

The Department for Transport has approved £100m of funding to start construction on four major road schemes. The schemes given funding to proceed to construction are: £31 million for the Preston western distributor scheme: a new dual carriageway link between the M55 and the A583 designed to improve travel between the enterprise zone at Warton […]

Despite concern about the future of HS2, procurement chiefs are pushing ahead with an industry day to outline tender plans for the £3.5bn route from the West Midlands to Crewe. West Midland to Crewe route now looks set to be split into seven civils packages The high speed railway client will next month set out […]