Galliford Try’s Highways business wins place on Midlands Highways Alliance Plus Medium Schemes Framework
Galliford Try’s Highways business has been reappointed to one of its key local authority frameworks, being named as one of the successful contractors on the Midlands Highways Alliance Plus (MHA+) Medium Schemes Framework. The framework is valued at £1bn and will run for the next four years, with the potential to extend for a further […]
Rising costs forces bid rethink for £200m M5 junction 10 project
Gloucestershire County Council is set to retender its project to upgrade junction 10 of the M5 to the west of Cheltenham. The council has gone back to the market with refreshed procurement plans in the face of volatile market costs, despite originally planning to chose a contractor for the project by July. Its new procurement […]
Development consent announced for the A47 Blofield to North Burlingham project
Grant Shapps, the Secretary of State for Transport. has granted development consent to the A47 Blofield to North Burlingham project. The application involves dualling of the A47 between Norwich and Acle Straight. It includes two junctions at the scheme’s extent and is approximately 4km in length. Following an Examination during which the public, Statutory Consultees and […]
Latest plans for A358 dualling between Taunton and Ilminster in Somerset revealed
National Highways has used interactive tools showing how the proposed A358 upgrade between Taunton and Ilminster could impact on people proved popular at recent consultation events. A traffic flow webmap shows how the dualling of the route would affect traffic flows in 2028, when the scheme is predicted to open. And a trip route and journey time […]
Hanson opens new concrete plant in central Birmingham
Hanson has opened a new ready-mixed concrete plant in Birmingham, increasing the company’s footprint and capabilities in the key west Midlands market. The new multi-million-pound plant in Landor Street can supply all concrete needs – including high volume, specialist mixes and low carbon concrete. The site has a large storage capacity, greatly reducing the frequency […]
Burton-upon-Trent flood defence work completes £30 million investment
The Environment Agency has completed additional flood defence work in Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, to alleviate issues around the A38 at Branston. The work, which started last summer in 2021, reduces flood risk to some 397 properties, including 18 affected by the flood of February 2020. The whole investment in Burton, including £2 million from the National […]
A27 East of Lewes upgrade nears finish with new milestone reached
As a £75m project that will transform journeys on one of the South East of England’s most vital roads nears completion, the scheme has reached another important milestone this week. A27 East of Lewes is one of a package of four schemes to reduce congestion on the road between Lewes and Polegate which suffers below […]
National Highways to invest £135 million in eight major North East and Yorkshire roads
National Highways has said that it will invest £135M in improving roads across the North East and Yorkshire in the next 12 months, including eight major motorways and A roads. The package of improvements to roads, pavements and bridges across the region comes as an effort to support the government’s agenda to level up transport […]
New M11 Junction 7A opens to traffic today
A new junction on the M11 opened to the public ahead of schedule last week, following the completion of one of the biggest highways infrastructure projects in Essex. The £76 million M11 Junction 7A scheme has created a much-needed new access into Harlow and included widening and improvement of Gilden Way, plus a new link […]
HS2 starts work on first pioneering ‘Green Tunnel’
HS2 has announced the start of construction at the site of its first innovative ‘green tunnel’, designed to blend the high speed railway into the landscape and reduce disruption for communities. Unlike a normal underground tunnel, the one-and-a-half mile (2.5km) Chipping Warden green tunnel in Northamptonshire is being built on the surface using a pioneering […]