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Energy company EDF has finally signed the main civils contract for Hinkley Point C with preferred joint venture Bouygues Travaux Publics/Laing O’Rourke. The French contractor revealed this morning that it had sealed the deal worth over £1.45bn alone to the firm. The construction deal is a big boost for Laing O’Rourke, which recently revealed groups losses of […]

Joint ventures between Morgan Sindall/BeMo and Taylor Woodrow/Bam Nuttall have won places on all three lots covering civils, tunnelling and combined civils and tunnelling. Hochtief was also successful but only secured a place on the third combined civils and tunnelling lot with the other joint ventures. The eight-year framework is part of London Underground’s plans to […]

Prequalification of firms will start in February for £150m worth of construction work for the planned light railway system for Luton Airport The 2.2 km long guided mass rapid transit passenger system will run between two purpose-built stations, heading out from Stirling Place, close to Luton Airport Parkway station, to the airport terminal. It will be broken down […]

Housing association Peabody has got the green light to provide hundreds of new homes and commercial space in Hackney Wick, East London. Contractor Hill will now start work on the first phase of Fish Island Village development, which lies next to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The housing projects at Neptune Wharf and Monier Road, […]

London Underground has named its preferred contractor teams for its £350m Future Stations’ Civils and Tunnelling Works framework. Joint ventures between Morgan Sindall/BeMo and Taylor Woodrow/Bam Nuttall have won places on all three lots covering civils, tunnelling and combined civils and tunnelling. Hochtief was also successful but only secured a place on the third combined […]

The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has pledged to invest a record £154m per year on cycling in the capital over the next five years. Consultation will also be held on two new Cycle Superhighways from Tower Bridge to Greenwich and Olympia towards Hounslow. The superhighways have caused controversy among motorists. The Mayor’s office said: […]

United Utilities has got the final planning green light to build 100km of pipeline for a scheme known as the Thirlmere Transfer West Cumbria Water Supplies Project. The project involves a 13km main aqueduct from Thirlmere reservoir to Bridekirk The scheme is designed to ease pressure on environmentally sensitive local water sources in West Cumbria, and provide a secure, long-term […]

Flir Systems have announced that it has acquired Prox Dynamics, a leading developer and manufacturer of nano-class unmanned aerial systems (UAS) for military and para-military intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance applications, for approximately $134 million in cash. Based in Oslo, Norway and founded in 2007 by pioneers in nano helicopter technologies, Prox Dynamics develops, manufactures, and […]

According to a recent survey conducted by Capital One, more than half (52 percent) of security industry professionals see video surveillance as the technology trend that will have the biggest impact on their businesses in the coming years. This is a significant increase from 2015 when only 23 percent of respondents answered similarly. Growth of […]

With the announcement of A&S mag Security Top 50 this year, in line with what most of the global professionals anticipated Hikvision finally became the world’s largest security company in terms of its 2015 annual revenue. After years of effort invested in improving product quality and technical support, Hikvision has become an end-to-end video surveillance […]