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The UK construction sector recently received some good news, with S&P Global recently unveiling that it has seen its fastest pace of activity in over two years.

High Speed 2 (HS2) main works contractor Align JV (Bouygues Travaux Publics, Sir Robert McAlpine, VolkerFitzpatrick) has celebrated the structural completion of the Colne Valley Viaduct, Britain’s new longest railway bridge, with the installation of the 1,000th  and final precast concrete segment.

Network Rail’s finances “deteriorated” in the last financial year and the organisation has warned that route directors “need to understand the tight financial management required” during the “critical first year of the new control period”.

Jake Singleton-Hill, a 32-year-old civil engineer from Leicestershire, appeared on the Netflix reality show Love is Blind UK and told NCE he is choosing the profession over becoming a celebrity.

The Scottish Government is procuring for a £180M framework for civil engineering projects of up to £5M.

The United Kingdom-India Infrastructure Financing Bridge (UKIIFB), designed to improve financial and professional services partnerships between the UK and India, has been agreed between the City of London Corporation and the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog).

New imagery of the proposed upgrades to Mossley and Greenfield stations has been released ahead of the public consultation of the Stalybridge to Diggle section of the Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU).

An offshore oil and gas platform in the North Sea called Culzean will have 20% of its power supplied by a floating offshore wind turbine following TotalEnergies’ successful application for the pilot project.

Thames Water has received government approval for its Water Resource Management Plan (WRMP), outlining its approach to ensuring a secure and sustainable water supply for the next 50 years.

A new Bill has been passed through parliament which is set to herald the most significant increase in enforcement powers against water companies in a decade, according to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).