Author Archives: Rob Hakimian

Engineers working on Australia’s Snowy 2.0 pumped hydroelectricity project have excavated about a third of the surge shaft, which will be 250m when complete.

The government’s 2023 Carbon Budget Delivery Plan will face a judicial review after a High Court judge ruled in favour of a legal challenge which said the justification for the plan was “irrational”.

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.

The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and Czechia research organisation Centrum výzkumu Řež (CVŘ) have signed an agreement to enable unique testing of High Temperature Superconducting (HTS) tapes, part of the development of a prototype fusion energy powerplant.

Aecom has put 306 employees across its UK and Ireland Transportation business at risk of redundancy, with a potential for 138 of them to be let go by July.

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 41-year-old male Polish construction worker has been killed while working on the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel between Germany and Denmark.

Network Rail contractor AmcoGiffen has opened a new footbridge over the Midland Main Line (MML) in Leicestershire as part of the ongoing electrification of the route.

Dublin Airport operator DAA has been granted planning permission to construct a €200M (£171M) road tunnel under its crosswind runway despite Ryanair’s attempts to block the development.

Oxford City Council has given planning permission for a new £10M pedestrian and cycle crossing across the River Thames in west Oxford.