Civils

A major highways project is facing possible cost increases and delays, Balfour Beatty and Kier have warned. Both contractors have served National Highways with early warning notifications regarding the £1.3bn A66 Northern Trans-Pennine dualling project, following last month's announcement that Costain will stop working on the project. It is not…

An influential committee of MPs has said the government is unclear both on its ambitions for the HS2 Euston station and on the costs of pausing the project’s construction. A report from the House of Commons' Public Accounts Committee says that, despite eight years of planning, the Department for Transport…

Blackpool Council is set to keep its options open on the type of framework it will use to procure £188m of coastal protection works. In 2022, the council agreed to use the Environment Agency's (EA) collaborative delivery framework to choose designers and contractors for two schemes. But a new report,…

Orkney Islands Council is inviting bids for a £200m contract to design and build a deep water quay intended to support Scotland's growing offshore wind industry. Scapa Deep Water Quay will be located on the east side of Scapa Flow, one of the largest natural deep water harbours in Northern…

By Fiona Nicolson The crisis at Thames Water will have no impact on the £4.5bn construction of a 25km ‘super sewer’ for London, Tideway has said. Construction of the Thames Tideway Tunnel project is being funded by Tideway, which is owned by a consortium of investors, with the money set…

Rampant inflation has left a local authority in the West Country with a major funding shortfall for a “flagship” new road. North Somerset Council revealed it was seeking almost £24m in extra cash to build the 3.3km-long Banwell Bypass. Forecast to cost £66m four years ago, the Alun Griffiths project…

HS2 has begun to assemble a major railway viaduct that has been manufactured off site, in what it said was a first for the UK. All the major elements of the 880 metre-long Thame Valley Viaduct near Aylesbury are being made off site before being “slotted together on site like…

The pipeline of new construction work will dry up so much in 2023 it will take more than two years to recover, a key report has warned. Industry analyst Glenigan predicts an 18 per cent dip in the value of new project starts this year, led by a collapse of…

Transport for London (TfL) has made a formal request to ministers for funding to extend the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) across the river in east London. It submitted a strategic outline case to the government for the lengthening of the line from Gallions Reach to Thamesmead via Beckton Riverside and…

Contractors have been alerted to £4bn worth of construction and civils work on public utilities projects. Public sector procurement body Scape unveiled two frameworks, each of which will run for four years with an option to extend by a further two years. The first, with a value of £3bn, involves…