Civils

Balfour Beatty is set to deliver almost £20m of coastal protection works in East Anglia. The contractor was appointed by North Norfolk District Council for schemes in Cromer and Mundesley. Procured through Scape's civil engineering framework, the projects are designed to protect 600 properties from flooding and erosion. Balfour will…

The UK arm of Madrid-based civils giant Sacyr is competing with Graham and Balfour Beatty for a troubled £150m road-upgrade scheme in the Highlands. Scottish transport minister Fiona Hyslop this week announced the shortlist for the dualling of the A9 between Tomatin and Moy. In 2021 the Scottish Government shortlisted Graham,…

Graham has secured a key role on an £87m road-upgrade project on Humberside. The Northern Irish contractor was appointed by East Riding of Yorkshire Council to deliver the A164 and Jock’s Lodge improvement scheme. Planning consent was granted in 2020 for the project, with government funding confirmed this month to…

Contractors have been alerted to two Network Rail frameworks worth a total of more than £2bn in the Midlands and Eastern regions. Under the first framework from Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd, valued at £1.15bn, contractors are needed for reactive works and small schemes on Network Rail’s building and civil assets…

Former Buckingham Group rail projects have been beset with delays, despite Kier taking over the collapsed contractor’s rail division. The combined cost of building two new stations in the Midlands is facing a further increase of up to £15m, with construction delayed by over a year, while upgrades to a…

Infrastructure projects are being delayed by up to a year as a result of hybrid working, according to the government’s chief advisor on major schemes. Nick Smallwood, chief executive of the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA), told MPs that projects including HS2 are being slowed down as a result of…

The government has clashed with HS2 Ltd over a “very significant upwards revision” in the estimated cost of the high-speed rail scheme. Transport minister Huw Merriman challenged new figures from the publicly owned rail company, which put the cost of phase one – from London to the West Midlands –…

A Welsh transport body is seeking contractors for £100m of highways jobs. The North and Mid Wales Trunk Road Agent launched procurement of its Civil Engineering Construction Works Framework Contract 2024, with an official notice published by Gwynedd Council giving firms until 16 February to express an interest in the…

Edinburgh City Council is still dealing with an ongoing legal claim almost a decade after the opening of its troubled tram system, it has emerged. The Scottish local authority included £4.5m for “resolving outstanding disputes” in a table of estimated costs to the public purse from the project. A public…

Realtime data from earthmoving machines is being used to cut costs and carbon emissions at a key stage in the delivery of HS2. According to EKFB, the main-works civil engineering contractor for HS2’s central section, around £25m has already been saved by using telematic data from the 700 machines used…