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Skyline views of the main London City tower cluster have been released assuming six more major consented schemes are built. Projected view of the London City Cluster of towers in seven year’s time The City of London Corporation has published the images ahead of consultations on the next City transport and local plans. Home to […]

The hunt will start next month for contractors to deliver a £100m extension of the Docklands Light Railway Beckton Depot. Existing facilities to be expanded for new trains Maintenance and stabling facilities are being extended to handle a new fleet of DLR trains. The works will be packaged into several contracts. Earliest work packages include […]

Bath and North East Somerset Council has picked VolkerHighways to deliver its £49m highways maintenance services for the next seven years. The firm will take over from Skanska in April next year and could also be granted a three-year extension at the end of the term. VolkerHighways will deliver planned, routine and reactive maintenance as well […]

Crossrail has bust its budget by another £2bn as further delays to the opening of the project were confirmed. Another extra financing package worth more than £2bn was agreed on Monday afternoon as Crossrail chiefs admitted they couldn’t guarantee hitting the revised opening date of Autumn 2019. The network was originally due to open this […]

Highways England is advancing plans to deliver all the smart motorway programme through a single alliance arrangement. Radical plans to adopt a full alliance model for all smart motorway work are now underway with bids being invited to find three tier one contractors, two designers and a new production manager specialist to create a production […]

HS2 has given the signal for bid prequalification to start for Birmingham Curzon Street station. Curzon Street station will be a raised structure to allow trams and people to pass below the main approach railway lines Around four contractors will be shortlisted to bid for the design and build deal, expected to cost £435m. Consultant […]

Pre-construction work has started on the £1bn Silvertown Tunnel under the Thames in East London. Structural and environmental monitoring is now underway on the site of the 1.4km twin-bore road tunnel. Specialist ITM Monitoring has been awarded the pre-construction deal by Transport for London under its Value Enhancement Specialist Framework Agreement. ITM was one of ten […]

HS2 has outlined plans to split the proposed West Midlands to Crewe section of the high speed railway into two civils contract packages. Procurement chiefs said they are still keeping procurement options open with the possibility of running a competition between its four existing phase one joint venture contractors instead of a prequalifying a fresh field […]

Highways England has confirmed its 15 partner contractors to deliver up to £8.7bn worth of work on England’s motorways and major A roads. The Enquirer first revealed the seven winners of the major work band deals last month. Now Highways England has confirmed these and its line-up of eight extra firms on the smaller value band of the new framework. […]

HS2 has started contractor consultations to build the West Midlands to Crewe section of the high speed railway. The 58km route, known as section 2a forms the first part of the western leg of HS2 Phase Two and is expected to cost around £3.5bn to deliver. Phase 2a interfaces with Phase One in the West […]