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Balfour Beatty’s director of aviation John Keaveney speaks to Construction News about his team’s work on Heathrow’s Terminal 2 complex, which opened today.

The contractor was responsible for delivering the £590m Terminal 2B facility as part of the T2 complex.Mr Keaveney highlights the “significant challenges” the team faced, including “huge volumes”…

Crossrail has achieved a fortnight of construction milestones with three tunnel boring machine breakthroughs and the completion of western train tunnels.

The 42km tunnelling marathon is now 70 per cent complete with over 30km of new rail tunnel under London now constructed.MilestonesCrossrail’s western tunnels completed as TBM Ada reaches her final…

Crossrail tunnellers have uncovered around 20 Roman skulls at the Liverpool Street station site.

Construction workers found the skulls 6 m underground while building a utility tunnel at the site. Tunnellers removed the human skulls and pieces of Roman pottery under direction from Crossrail’s archaeologists. The skulls were found below the…

With King’s Cross Square due to open to the public today, Construction News went behind the scenes to capture the final stages of the project.

The last few touches are being made to the Square, as these pictures show.Main contractor J Murphy were on site finishing paving and landacaping, designed by…

Archaeologists at Crossrail’s tunnelling worksite in North Woolwich have discovered a 9,000-year-old Mesolithic ‘tool-making’ factory.

Over 150 pieces of flint, including blades, were found at the factory, providing evidence that Mesolithic people lived on the Thames.The team believes that prehistoric Londoners used the factory to test, divide and prepare river cobbles…

This stunning photograph of diggers at work on a demolition project has won the grand prize in the COINS buildingsights photo competition.

The image was taken by amateur photographers Darren Ruane and Terry Higginson, both part of Costain Carillion Joint Venture, and captures a dramatic moment as ten large excavators fitted…

Massive geotechnics and intricate logistics have ensured one of Crossrail’s most complicated schemes keeps the project team on its toes.

The largest cranes ever to arrive in the UK have berthed at London Gateway, bringing to an end a voyage that began in China two months ago.

The quay cranes, which weigh 1,848 tonnes each and stand 138 metres tall, sailed into the Thames Estuary upright on a container ship this…

As Battersea power station’s developers launched pre-sales of apartments today, Construction News was taken on a tour of the iconic London landmark that will form the centrepiece of the Nine Elms redevelopment.

The first stage of the £8 billion redevelopment of Battersea power station was approved in December and is due…

Crossrail has released a set of pictures documenting the progress of their sites around the London network. Hover over for location details.

Crossrail has released a set of pictures documenting the progress of their sites around the London network.