A series of freedom of Information (FOI) requests submitted to government departments and arm’s length government bodies has revealed that spending on legal fees has increased faster within the Department for Transport (DfT) and National Highways (Highways England) than any other organisation contacted.
Hertfordshire-based Milestone Infrastructure has secured a three-year extension to a highway infrastructure maintenance deal at Hinkley Point C.
The Department for Transport (DfT) has come under fire after admitting that procurement details recently published for major chunks of the High Speed 2 (HS2) project were incorrect.
Rail industry experts have urged the government to hold its nerve when it comes to backing future rail infrastructure projects despite passenger numbers failing to recover to pre-covid levels.
Keltbray has won the contract to provide construction services for the first two ventilation shafts and head houses on HS2’s Chiltern Tunnels.
If you want to win major government contracts from this autumn, but you're not up to speed on Carbon Reduction Plans (CRPs), then you need to get up to speed quickly.
Costain has recovered from the financial hit it took from the troubled A465 Heads of the Valley road project to post a profit of £9.1M, the contractor’s latest results show.
The latest episode of The Engineers Collective is out now.
As the recent BBC mini-series on Hinkley Point C nuclear power station demonstrated, mega projects are getting bigger, more complex, expensive, controversial and technically challenging. So, how can project teams best manage technical risk?
The start of works at the £3bn Sofia Wind Farm was not enough to stem a fall in the value of civil engineering projects for the three months to the end of July, latest analysis by Glenigan has found.
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