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With funds for infrastructure limited, as evidenced by chancellor of the exchequer Rachel Reeves’ recent cancellation of some of the UK’s most expensive major projects, leveraging private finance to help build large schemes going forward will be paramount to their success.

Costain has trialed a new system that provides quality and safety assurance data and information for tunnels while they are being constructed or fitted out by automated robots.

Southern Water has awarded two new capital delivery framework contracts to eight companies for the AMP8 control period covering 2025 to 2030.

Costain has been awarded “a multimillion-pound” front-end engineering and design (Feed) contract by oil, gas and energy giant BP for new hydrogen pipeline network at H2Teesside (H2T).

Costain has delivered a four-year scheme to deliver “a critical piece of south-west infrastructure”, the new stretch of A30 dual carriageway between Chiverton and Carland Cross in Cornwall.

The new government isn’t the only major body making moves this month as we’ve seen high level appointments at the likes of Network Rail, Mace, Costain, Stantec and many more.

High Speed 2 (HS2) main works contractor Skanska Costain Strabag JV (SCS) has hit the halfway point in boring the 13.5km twin-bored Northolt Tunnel between West Ruislip and Old Oak Common in West London.

Safeguarding resilience across the UK’s critical infrastructure is becoming increasingly complex. Asset owners and operators must maintain uninterrupted operations while adapting to unpredictable markets, cybersecurity threats and interoperability challenges. Key to navigating these complexities is establishing a reliable digital backbone, where data emerges as a critical yet often overlooked protagonist…

Legislation to bring the Great Britain’s railways into public ownership and establish a new integrated delivery body Great British Railways will be brought forward in this Parliament, as confirmed by the King’s Speech on 17 July.

High Speed 2 (HS2) main works contractor Skanska Costain Strabag joint venture (SCS) has been allocated an additional £150M for its work to design and build the project’s London tunnels.