Balfour Beatty AtkinsRéalis JV, working on behalf of National Highways, is set to lift a series of 80t concrete beams across the M25 in Surrey this weekend as part of works to overhaul junction 10 of London’s orbital motorway.
A proposal to partially infill a channel of Swansea’s docks and construct a new road over it has been put together by the Welsh government.
The surface conditions of motorways, dual carriageways and single carriageways in England has met the roads regulator’s target nationally, but regionally the East and Midlands has fallen behind.
Northern Ireland’s Department for Infrastructure (DfI) has published a tender seeking contractors for an £83M contract to provide professional services for its Transport and Road Asset Management (TRAM) programmes.
Knowsley Council has launched procurement for its £100M highways maintenance programme.
Argyll and Bute in Scotland has suffered from severe landslides closing many roads and leaving the council fearful that large boulders, some over 70t, are “unstable”.
National Highways has completed the latest multi-million pound package of upgrades on the A27 including road resurfacing and bridge repairs.
When it comes to winter road maintenance, forward planning is key. At any time of year, water ingress is generally the biggest threat to road integrity but the ‘freeze-thaw’ cycle of winter exacerbates the threat.
Scotland's A83 Rest and Be Thankful has closed again as heavy and persistent rainfall caused several landslips over the weekend, an occurrence which will become more frequent with climate change, an expert has warned.
A major new road near Newquay in Cornwall has moved one step closer after Network Rail engineers moved a new road bridge into place over the railway.
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