Author Archives: Ian Weinfass

An Arup and Binnies joint venture has been appointed by Thames Water as technical partner for the proposed new reservoir near Abingdon in Oxfordshire.

Birmingham City Council has won a judicial review of the government’s decision to reject its new roads maintenance contract plans.

An Arup director and the former chair of National Highways are among the recipients of this year’s King’s Birthday Honours who have worked in civil engineering and construction.

The Great British Railways Transition Team (GBRTT) has spent more than £64M in under 18 months since it was set up, New Civil Engineer can reveal.

Discussions are still taking place over updating the safeguarded route for Crossrail 2, it has emerged.

An electric train has travelled for the first time between Manchester Victoria and Stalybridge, as part of the Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU), Network Rail has announced.

Turner & Townsend has been appointed to Tata Group’s £4bn battery manufacturing plant in Somerset.

More than 5,000 tonnes of material slipped beneath a 50-metre section of the railway last Friday (March 8) after persistent heavy rainfall over the winter had weakened the earthwork beneath. Engineers from Network Rail and Murphy have been working around the clock since, in a bid to clear the site…

A Skanska-led joint venture has been appointed to upgrade a terminal at the Port of Virginia.

The head of a House of Lords committee has warned that the government’s energy plans still risk energy security and net-zero ambitions because they lack investment in energy storage technology.