High Speed 2 (HS2) contractor Balfour Beatty Vinci (BBV) has completed the final pushes to move two parallel railway viaducts into place over the M42/M6 link roads in North Warwickshire, making them the first viaduct structures to be completed at Delta Junction.
The Railway Industry Association (RIA) has urged the government to make a number of “now or never” decisions related to the UK rail network in the upcoming Autumn Budget.
A campaign to restore an abandoned railway line that was promised £150M government investment by the cancelled Restoring Your Railway fund has stated it only needs 1% of this, £1.5M, to complete the business case and pave the way for work to begin.
A new bridge designed by Cowi, Moxon and RPS to be built as part of the final phase of Dublin Port’s €1.1bn (£930M) Masterplan 2040 has been submitted for planning approval.
Belfast’s new £105M Grand Central Station has begun its phased opening as it welcomes buses into the new multimodal transport hub.
Spencer Group has been selected to build a £17M wheel lathe facility in Clacton for Greater Anglia to use to service its rolling stock.
Energy secretary Ed Miliband is considering scrapping plans to use the Wylfa site in North Wales for a new large-scale nuclear power plant as well as the UK’s target of developing 24GW of nuclear capacity by 2050.
Great Western Railway (GWR) has announced services into London Paddington will be impacted up to 2028 to allow for works to construct High Speed 2’s (HS2’s) Old Oak Common station.
The UK is leading the way in the deployment of a fusion energy powerplant according to the Royal Society, which has also provided the first detailed report on work towards the design for Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP).
A “pioneering” investment model has been launched in Scotland to support high value startups engaged in accelerating the energy transition.
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