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National Highways was able to lift the full closure of the M25 in Surrey seven hours early after Balfour Beatty AtkinsRéalis JV engineers made good progress on the next phase of the £317M junction 10 upgrade.

A road floating on a peat bog has been installed at Sutherland Spaceport on the A’Mhòine peninsula in the north of Scotland.

Tarmac will carry out live laboratory testing of algae-based bio-bitumen for road surfaces as part of a research partnership led by carbon removal company CO2CO.

National Highways and other highways authorities in England have no permits in place for managing the pollutants which are washed off their roads, according to a scathing report from Stormwater Shepherds and the CIWEM (Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management).

The planning system in the UK is the biggest hinderance to leveraging private finance for major projects, unlike other countries in Europe, experts in the field of transport economics have stated.

Campaign group Transport Action Network (TAN) has launched a legal challenge against the government’s granting of a development consent order (DCO) to the £1.3bn Northern A66 Trans-Pennine upgrade scheme.

National Highways is progressing with two major road schemes as its £228M A57 Link Roads will commence after a legal challenge was quashed, while its development consent order (DCO) application for its £300M M60 junction 18 upgrade has been accepted for examination.

A multi-council East England highways framework has gone to market at £800M, twice the predicted value of when Central Bedfordshire Council conducted market engagement last year.

A number of the top infrastructure organisations have come forward to promise to adhere to the Construction Leadership Council’s (CLC’s) five client carbon commitments in all of their future projects.

An enhanced diversion system of automated barriers to redirect traffic off of the Queensferry Crossing to avoid falling ice has been successfully trialled.