Author Archives: Rob Hakimian

The switching on of the North Sea Link between the UK and Norway has come at a very welcome moment as UK energy prices continue to climb heading into winter.

Peterborough Magistrates Court has fined a contractor for breach of safety regulations that led to the paralysis of a worker at Watford FC’s Vicarage Road Stadium in 2016.

Transport secretary Grant Shapps failed to cite an example of an infrastructure intervention that has helped “level up” the UK, when asked to do so by a cross-party group of MPs.

Infrastructure projects will see inevitable delays and rapid cost increases as the fuel crisis rumbles on, a leading transport lawyer has warned.

Network Rail has begun essential works on Keadby Canal Bridge, also known as Vazon Railway Bridge, a unique sliding bridge in North Lincolnshire. The work comes after a structural fault was found earlier this month that prevented the signaler from being able to close the bridge, causing disruption on the…

Network Rail engineers were forced to work through the night after a fire damaged a section of track in Kent.

Contractors are being sort for a multi-purpose £4.2bn construction and engineering framework.

The value and starts in civil engineering work in the UK has shown healthy increase in recent months, although the number of small projects (<£100M) are still in decline according to the latest market analysis from Glenigan.

An £85M contract to deliver the second phase of overhead line works to the West of Scotland has been awarded to Balfour Beatty on behalf of SSEN Transmission.

Starts of new infrastructure projects in the UK have significantly declined, according to the latest Construction Index report from Glenigan. The rate of starts is down by nearly a half (48%) on the previous quarter, and is down 22% on the same period in 2020.