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Consultancy partners selected for £20M framework on Glasgow’s £15bn Clyde Metro proposals
Glasgow City Council and Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) have chosen consultancy partners in a £20M framework to aid in making an investment case for the £15bn Clyde Metro.
West England CA appoints major consultancies to support development of infrastructure schemes
Aecom, AtkinsRéalis, Jacobs, Ramboll, Stantec and WSP have all won spots on West of England Combined Authority’s (WECA’s) new professional services framework to progress infrastructure schemes in the region.
Monthly mergers: Biggest engineering partnerships and acquisitions in June 2024
A union of CBRE project management with Turner & Townsend leads the way in this month’s mergers round up, but we’ve also got news of WSP acquiring a Spanish firm, a civil engineering ‘supergroup’ and more
Debate | New approaches critical to effectively navigate the data ecosystem
Decisions are at the heart of engineering and those decisions need the best possible information. More data about the condition of structures can be helpful, but identifying the right data matters.
London’s £220M attraction in secret World War II tunnels gains planning approval
Proposals worth £220M to develop a cultural attraction in the deep-level subterranean wartime shelter tunnels under High Holborn have been approved by the City of London Corporation’s planning and transportation committee.
Concern over lack of climate resilience factors in local roads procurement
Efforts to improve the climate resilience of local roads are not included as much as they should be in procurement contracts, according to senior highways representatives speaking at NCE’s Roads conference on 7 June.
Southern Water names seven global consultancies on AMP8 professional services framework
Southern Water has appointed Aecom, Arup, KPMG, Mott MacDonald, Stantec, Turner & Townsend and WSP/Binnies JV to help it deliver its £7.8bn investment plans for the eighth asset management period (AMP8), between 2025 and 2030.
UK Tier 1 contractors release manifesto urging government to ‘depoliticise infrastructure’
A group of 12 Tier 1 contractors have put together a manifesto urging the next government to “depoliticise infrastructure” among other recommendations to effectively boost the UK’s economic growth and productivity.
Editor’s Comment | Tunnels can help engineers achieve environmental goals
Advances in tunnelling techniques and technologies have opened up new applications and opportunities for a greater use of smaller tunnels, often built with automated tunnel boring machines (TBMs). Not that smaller tunnels are always so small. One such tunnel has a diameter of less than 5m but is 36.7km long…