Severfield welding crisis hits five National Highways bridgesThe full extent of the welding problems impacting both HS2 and National Highways bridges is emerging in the wake of steelwork contractor Severfield laying bare production problems.
The Enquirer can reveal five road bridges are now known to be suffering from defective welding in addition to the nine bridge structures impacted on…
HS2 awards £3bn of track contractsHS2 has confirmed the teams that will deliver contracts worth £3bn for track, signalling, communications, and other systems.
The ‘rail systems’ contracts will see almost 140 miles of tunnels, bridges and earthworks between London and the West Midlands transformed into an operational railway.
The winners will first design and then install around 280 miles of…
Severfield finds weld problems on a dozen HS2 bridgesThe country’s biggest steelwork contractor Severfield has uncovered weld problems on a dozen bridge projects.
This morning it revealed that remedial works to fix the problems will cost at least £20m, but warned it was still assessing the full impact of fixing weld issues.
While Severfield did not reveal where the bridge projects are, it is…
Scottish Water launches £9bn bid raceScottish Water has launched its largest ever procurement programme.
Firms are being invited to bid to be involved in a new enterprise-style approach to enhancing Scotland’s water and waste water infrastructure over the period 2027 to 2033, with a potential extension for another six years.
The overall value of the enterprise – known as Delivery Vehicle 4…
Multiplex signs off £400m Westminster barracks resi jobMultiplex has settled on a final price to deliver a luxury 179-home scheme at the site of the former St John’s Wood Barracks in Westminster, London.
Totalling 5.5 acres, the St John’s Wood Square development will transform the site previously occupied by the King’s Troop, Royal Horse Artillery into a super prime central London…
Road worker dies after crash on A30A road maintenance workers has died following a serious collision on the A30 at Launceston in Cornwall.
Police were called to the Pennygillam off slip on Sunday morning following a collision involving two highways maintenance vehicles and a Heavy Goods Vehicle.
A man in his 50s, from one of the highway maintenance vehicles, sustained life-threatening injuries…
Developer GPE targets 40% of reused building materialsGreat Portland Estates is vowing to use at least 40% of reused materials on new construction sites and major refurbishments.
The developer will start measuring the percentage of reused materials on jobs from next April using its newly developed ‘Circularity Score’.
The target will then rise to 50% for jobs starting after 1 April 2030 and…
Kier and Bam star in two Welsh frameworks worth £1.4bnKier and BAM Construction have secured major project places across two big Welsh building frameworks put up for renewal.
The firm’s pulled off double awards securing major project slots on both the £600m NHS Building for Wales 2 and £800m South West Wales Regional Contractors Framework.
A total of five bidders secured spots on the second…
95 consultants secure spots on £800m frameworkProcure Partnerships Framework has named 95 consultants awarded places on its second-generation national professional services framework, with around 80% being small and medium-sized enterprises.
During the past five years the framework has supported over 600 public sector projects. The fresh framework deal promises an estimated £800m…
Arup restructures board to create new CEO roleArup has announced a new board structure that sees current group chair Jerome Frost step into a newly-created CEO role from April 2025.
Hilde Tonne, former CEO of Norway’s transmission system operator Statnett SF, will join as non-executive chair of the firm’s new Arup Group Limited Board.
She brings a wealth of experience, having previously…